Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS

derive pleasure in boring neighbors and friends with. their aches and pains. To hear them talk one would think that theirs were the only backs ever hit by 1umbago; and theirs the only stom- achs that ever got balled up with joy of telling, or for the annoyance tho recital produces, is hard to say. But they do 1t just tlns same and seem to thrive under it In some cases 1t Is hab- it. They begin with the tootfache and get so much real fun out of 1t, that they keep right on until they run the en- tire gamut of known diseases from brain fever to cancer in the liver. When once the habit is formed it grips. like the rum appetite. A good old orthodox toper
 drinks everything in sight from Jamaica ginger to wood alcohol This relish for disease may be pure selishYess: cheap bid for pity and consolation. Or it may be done for praise-oAe may reel of his rhumatics, as the musician does his chrornatics, or the scholar his mathematics. for applause. Wherever we go we shah find dear old ladies-of both sexes-enjog very poor health.
 This relish in boring other people with your trials sometimes takes a far less excusabIe turn. With Christian resig- nation we will listen to all the sharp pains that go galleping through blood, bone and muscle, but when these tor mentors drag some family skeleton out of the closet and make the dry bones rattle from one end of the community to the other, we have perfect right to say: From this; good Lord defend usi" A schoolgirl-in CaliforniS-once fed the community in which she lived with such angelic fodder as the follow ing: I've got the most horrid father that ever tormented a distracted girl. I want to spend one year more at a fin ishing school to finish, but the old man won't fork over another dollar. It's enough to drive one cra3yF As a cold fact this abused child had spent so many years in this school finishing that it had nearly finished" the 'sold man. financially and otherwise. Now this is a sample of the way some people rattle the family skeleton. In some an- cient nythologies there were nine furies, but they were bound; during the inter vening nineteen hundred years one has been added each year. so that we now have more than nineteen hundred
 mostly unbound.
 One of the most common topics of con
 versation today-apart from the league l of nations-is why so many drunkS up on the street? When men say this they l q | to express their indignation. Is it a l sort of spasm such as we see in ami mals as they give their final kick? Nc 1 doubt the liquor trade, forseeing the fl
 nal issue, stored up immense quantity ] of goods, and as the end approaches means to go out in beastly carnival. as
 March sometimes goes out like "a roar. | ing lion. Or, is "moonshine" whiskey
 being manufactured in defiance to tht Constitution of the United States? IT either case officials somewhere are tun
 bling down on their job. The statement
 has been made that evidence in a,thous
 and eases has been pnt into the hands ot federal agents who have utterly ignored l ity in Washington has not sympathizet | with prohibition. But the country vii [, stand by it's Constitution.
 ! Every rfght-r1inded person is aIwayi I willing to consider facts even if by st doing he is compelled to change hh opinion. Even if We see trunks on tn, street. and something that is liquor. ol 1 iRebriates, like. liquor is being sold,
 larger view of the question shows tha ! the country has begun an upward di rection since prohibition went into ef feet. Why are some jails empty fo the first time? Why are all count, i. homes decreasing in the number c commitments? Why are the number 0
 depositors in savings banks rapidly in creasing? Why is there in our grea
 cities a growing difficulty in g1ttin T scrub women? Why is it that so man families among wage earners are. for tn } ii first time paying their bills? The frar , tic let4er sent out by the president c I The Liquor Dealers Association of Ne f Jersey for contributions to help elec 'wet'' congressnlen to fight the 1St
 amendment is the strongest evidence ( all It is like the snarl of bafled ar ? imal. In five years We shall wonde why we bowed the knee to Bsal so lon; , Is there any real significance in tf 9 practical abatement of the tramp nit ) sance?, We easily recall the great, bus 7 ly. unshaven, dirty fellow who used 1
 come to the kitchen door for foo
 Where has he gone: this chap of tf
 red face-not wholly caused by expos,il : to the hot sun? Has he suddenly b come converted and is now at scho 0 studying for the ministry? Has col 9 science s1nitten him for doing so unna1 S ly 9 thing as begging and lie has gor
 into t1le retreat Of some monastery repent of his sins? Is it because u . cruel invitation to saw wood in pa ;. payment for his dinner was really mo . 5 stand? Was it because the increasir l. coldness of his reception in these da, l. of frantic demand for labor brought y an epidemic of rheumatism tIfat has { 2 booed the whole tramp business? Wha q ever has caused him to lose his nerJ ,+ we shall miss him, his shiny face, de .t cate frame and heavenly smile when ' .s handed him hard doughnuts instead u sirloirt Possibly he's gone to New Je 2 sey to help the Liquor Dealers rete
 wet" congressman.
 What rich field the American aut
 ence is for those who can pull " stunts in their respective ca1lings ;+ may be that the rank and file of. our pc
 pie are not so keen on instruction
 entertainment. but let even an instruct
 be able to deliver the goods' and 'e will be in demand. No people on ear it are so versatile aas the American a
 they want everything that is going.
 motion picture must De a good one
 hold the crowd, and if the crowd 2 pleased it is very generous. See the ft 'k tunes made by Mary Pickford and Dot n lass Fairbanks! The great comedis
 novelist, editor, lecturer, preach
 whatever be the stuff he pulls off if in is only great stuff" has his fortune =, sured. The crowd is keen to a man " 70 is only shamming and it's treatment T. mefcfiess. Moral: Whatever line y DC wqFk, master it from A to g.
 one of the presidential nominees
 one of his speeches, has made the f a- lowing anfazfng statement: "They s sn that Great Britain has six votes in vel league of nations to our one. They ob and they know that they lie In
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