Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-27
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

some distant heaven, IS going 70 get badly left-in my humble judgment. Our enjoyment hereafter is going toI depend on two things: 1, by the capacity that we have fer enjoyment here; 2, by the use we have made of it. Going from this world to heaven is very much like going from the high school to college-a graduation. The pupil who has done good, honest work in the preparatory school is going to get into college without conditions. College life Is but an expansion of high school life. The heavenly life is nothing more than present existence expanded. We are now projecting our selves into heaven; we are creating the trends that will mark our future existence. The person whose life here is grouchy and discordant would have the figitS under the strains of celestial choirs.
 New England has always sustained an ,enviable reputation for it's beauti ful natural scenery. Nature has mark ed out the great Mississippi valley as the agricultural backbone of the coun- try. And as no one section can com prise the sum total of excellencies, the people of New England have been pacified with scenic beauty. As this beauty is in great danger of being marred by gross commercialism, she ought to insist more rigidly on Its preservation. New Hampshire sternly refuses, by legislative action, to have her wonderful granite hills defaced by painted advertisements. Other states have followed in the line of modern progress in the preservation of the l grand and beautiful in nature. It makes ones artistic temperament wriggle to see bits of landscapes pol luted by references to chewing gum, or. worse still, to the compound of bromide that slaughter natural scenery and the constitutions. of women. Why should this state submit to such gross commercialism
 Pope in the exquisite little poem, ''The Quiet Life" expresses what the majority of people feel, that they want rather the real comforts, than the ex- pensive luxuries, of life. It is the gold en mean between the palace and the hut that will satisfy most of us. It is nice thing to have two homes, or rather a regular one and one that is supplemental either at the seaside or in the mountains. It does one good to l get back to the shore where he has 1 sojourned many years, and made last ing friendships. As we are all more or less vain mortals, it makes us feel good under the ribs when We walk | along the familiar street for the first time of the season, to have people that we have long known come down from their verandas to greet us. "How
 good it seems to see you again A. B
 hope you are down for the summeri'
 It is much pleasanter than to see then
 rush into the kitchen and say to the
 maid: Look out for silver, Mary, see that A. B. and his wife have conle.' This cottage business is al 1 right if you are.
 i There is a bit oF psycneIosy in pos
 sessing real estate. The consciousness, i of ownership is always an incentive tc
 improvement. The residential sectie1 of any city will compare very faver. ably with the tenement district. Th,
 average landlord will spend just!eneusI money on his property to keep it ul to a certain rentable figure. He is no
 imbued with the philosophy that ";
 stitch in time saves nine," but whs
 he must do if he is to rent it. T,
 the man who owns his property tn
 idea is not to make it merely habitabl
 but homelike. It must be more tha1
 barely comfortable, it must be beauti , ful. When man buys house he ha rented for years it seems to be touche = with magic. To use an expression ono 9 in vogue, it seems to have "experience 2 religien.' At once the premises ar 5 touched with new life. Instead of tn , thorn we have the fir tree. and wher was once the briar we have the myrtl tree. Roses, paint, a sun parlor an
 a lawn mower show that tenantr has changed to ownership, The writer has heard it said tha
 success in gardening does not depen
 upon skill, patience and knowledg
 of soils, but on a mean disposition. ( T course you will say indignantly ths . 1t is "a pack of lies" Now 1 feel jus - the same as you do, or, at least, I di [ before it was proved to me. I sai - just as you are now saying-''Jook z d me, l am good naturedI my dispositio s is sweet and heavenly, are not m e cabbages rotund and my onions rank j This statement, however was made 1
 me with full knowledge that my TOW
 Of corn, beans, carrots, beet and pa1 = snips were straight, immaculate an = weedless. Now the great enemies l. gardens are fugi and insects. Coco Il natured men take these things as 5, part of the existing order, and 20 ; @ 1t accordingly, but the mean man gri ad his teeth and then slings the Par
 Green or Pyrox to exterminate u ;, beastly things that dare touch his ga, :" den. It's the same with weeds. W of the heavenly makeup hack ava y at them to save the garden, but tl 't human crab is so tearing mad tn It anything dares to grow save what l 70 has planted that he simply annihilat l. them. Hence the rotten dispositit v comes out ahead.
 # Is there not authority enough witt 8. In the state Of Connecticut, or with ot the limits of the United States, to D D. an end to reckless automobile drivin, ,s On fine days, especially on Sunday
 every popular highway has a douh = procession of machines: in fact the V, are so many that passing the macI III me ahead of you is getting to be Ve e. dangerous; hence the pace of all mu
 De taken by the slowest Safety
 none too well protected in these da. by the most careful driving. n riders, whether intoxicated or mere Ill thoughtless, are increasingly a mena
 to the public. A collision today
 likely to involve more than two m e. chimes and to injure more than two De to sons. Packed as some automobiles a
 today several machines and perha
 many lives are endangered, The d.
 for light fines has passed. Let rec
 lessness be met with very heavy fin no and jail sentences.
 Is there not good reason why t
 women of America should look askan -+ at the present federal congress. A put 1t more strongly, they are justifi