Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-17
THE MAN WHO TALKS

somewhat of the earth earthly" Along the great pathways of travel are stands at convenient intervals offering for sale all kinds of fluids not in violation of the Volstead act and also solids by way of fruit and pastry. did not see one stand where one could buy Plato, Shakespeare, or even Harold Bell Wright When trav- cling it is not the cerebrun, but the dia- phragm, that most interests the great American people," On a trip that cover ed more than six hundred and fifty miles did not run across one coffee room, but 1t was tea rooms all the way from Dan to BeerSheba. 1 saw advertised Sunset Tea rooms, Horizon Tea rooms. Mariais Tea rooms, and actually one Mary Had Little Lamb Tea room, and-thankGod -one Tea room three miles away 1t was
 Tea, tea everywhere
 And plenty a drop to drink
 States whose chief assets lie in the great variety of their incomparabIe nat ural scenery do well in preserving their massive rocks from the paint brush of commercialism. They also do well in eliminating the difficulties of transit until it becomes an exact science. The great Lincoln highway leading from the north door of the White House to Get D0. It honored the great emancipator and was benefit to the travelling public New Hampshire has been doing a similar work. This state, could erect no finer monument to her greatest son, Daniel Webster, than by the construction of the Daniel Webster highway leading through l the very heart of the Granite state All 1 the way from the Massachusetts line to Co4ebrook, and within a few miles of 1 the great statesman's birthplace One Will not soon forget those green bands 1 With the initials. D. Wand what a 1 convenience to the tourist! The Teddy ] Roosevelt road from Littleton eastward | to Crawfords Notch reminds one of the ] great rugged character which it honors, l The annual meeting of the Hay Fever | Association of the United States was ] held this year in August at Bethlehem. 1 N H. As this society is composed who'll 1 ly of those who have been, still are, or l expect to be sometime in the future. at- 1 tackled by this irritating but iiiustrious nose ail, no place could possibly have been chosen in the whole country more 1 approPriate for the mutual cemmiseration | oi nay lever sufferers than Bethlehem. l mere IS no rag weed in this delightful place except that which is imported in l the prebosces of the sufferers themselves l The president excused himself from n1ak.
 Ing formal opening address because
 his nose was closed" When the secre- ] tary began to read the report of the last
 annual meeting he was taken with a vi. 1 oient fit of coughing which closed ali the
 apparatus he had above the shoulders The vice president and board of directors
 were unable to be present because ot running eyes" The only female mem. 1 Der present was taken with 8 terrihlt
 emil and hence the meeting was adjourn.
 ed sine die.
 Katherine Lee Bates in her beautiful na
 tionat hymn speaks of America as hay I ing purple mountain majesties," an( l the description IS perfectly correct. Tn 1 real charm cf mountain landscapes con sist of bewitching purple hazes rangin. ] from nearly black to 3 blue so light al to be almost white mist. It is the hea that creates the haze and fer that reasos i October is ordinarily a better month l. l see the mountains than August Do " not find a parallel to this in the huusl : 1 temperament? When a man flies into ! fit of passion he is very apt to mak l things blue. In other words he is haz fl when swayed with anger The mind
 ape to work unreasonably when in cho
 loric state; and that means that it doe ! not work clearly. In October there : enough heat to tinge the distant seen with purple beauty. When the mind } normal there is enough natural heat t l make the long foresight beautiful.
 An interesting article appeared in on Of our metropolitan papers with thi ? heading: Why Many Tools Are Name , for Animals. Some of the reasons give . are quite ingenious and may be correct others are less felicitous and are prot 1 abiy incorrect It is at least feasibl i that monkey wrench" finds it origin i
 it's general shape to that iIlustrieus bu s much abused animal. That it is so nan Q ed because it deals with 'nutsp is n1 g satisfactory because there are SC man I other instruments that deal with nuts n that dc not -outwardly-resenbIe tn t monkey. It may be that the donkey CT n zine gets it's maine from it's capacity I - haul great burdens and because it IT
 ! fleets the stubbornness of that quadrupe, . 1 If it comes from the latter why not | U more brutally frank and call it the "jacl l. ass epgineo" We are told that "crape s 1 is so Peailed because when distantly see l. 1t much resembles that shapely bird. Ma 2 It not came from the habit people ha1 a in ''craning' their neeks to see ho
 high the weight is to be lifted? I s1l. a gest that the word 'bucksaw" come
 from the fact that any boy with intell " genee bucks when made to use that to : for more than thirty consecutive minute ,+ Have yop ever observed that the usu
 rentabie cottage at the ssashore has :, bum stove and deplorable cooking col 't Venjences? You will eftentimes find
 mahogany bureau, a solid cherry tabI
 and orockery galore that has been handt
 down from several generations. You " o also find oil paintings-somewha dilar :, dated, to be sure-of the owners gran
 parents and enough rubbish generally
 make the heart of a son of Abraha
 leap for joy. But when it comes to u E. cook stove-good night! Strange to enough the average land1ady, who knoy
 all about cooking, will hug an old diIa
 dated stove that the average landie III would kick out as junk. Think of 8 lat r showing up her cottage to prospeeti " tenants, calling attention to her dre,
 saying, "1 have worn this dress ey
 since 1897!''/ But she won't hesitate es display the cooking stove which left { Id foundry somewhere about 1s42. Is the
 some mysterious charm about an old bu
 stove tbat is net shared by the usual r r. of junk?
 ce Like most msrtaIs ysu sometimes
 the summer season wander away in t
 deep woods to do a little calm thinki, Lw You succeed, however, in doing the thin m ing, but it is not noticeab4y calm. In = arrival you are waited up by deiegatio 'S of mosquitoes, gnats and flies of all {
 scriptions that greatly appreciate yc
 coming. Their affinity for us s9ords 1t creation" is very clearly marked. H co, they sting, bite and claw into what "6 re- has so fearfully and wonderfully made
 There can be no question but that II
 Rppreciate the tparagnn If anin,n iu.,