Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-08
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 bles how much one can get accustomed to- have in mind the little fellows who can he seer daily at Crescent Beach just in front of the sanatorium playing in the sand. They are almost entirely naked all of them more or less crippled by some form of tuberculosis. They are locally referred to as the little brownies" name that perfectly describes their ap- pearance At first when they came into direct contact with the suns rays they were puny and sicllly white in color. but under the suns kind blessing they are constantly becoming robust, and in ap- pearance resemble little Indians The strange part of it is they become so hard ened by long exposure that they don only the same fig leaf in winter as in summer. Last winter they were seen skating having on in addition only shoes to hold skates That the sun is doing a perfect work is seen in the fact that every day some one is saying goodbye" forever to his crutches.
 Along other lines and in other walks of life this same fact is clearly mani fested On a cold day do we not bundle our bodies up in extra wraps simply be- cause we have so coddled and pampered them that they have become extremely sensitive to the least zip in the air? Does it not require almost zero weather to wrap up ones face when outdoors? Naturally one's face is no more adapt ed to severity of weather than ones shoulder, back chest, diaphragm, or thighs. Were we at once to expose our backs in winter as we do our faces, it would invite pneumonia, simply because I we have hardened our faces and not our | backs to all kinds of weather. This is not quite so true of our hands because we pet them more than we do our faces 1 The modern sleeping porch would have i been regarded less than century ago as l the device of madness, but it is a move in the right direction. The cold air treatment is giving us healthier babies ; and women with throats and chests ex- posed is a mighty. setback to the great white plague"
 There is something very attractive in 1 the sea when lashed into fury by the lequinOxial storm If you sit on big 1 boulder where the breakers pound against it you will feel it more or if you stand on a pier you will notice that il | sways and sometimes swayS itself to destruction. The ship that has foundered Ton the shoals meets the same fate. When you see these effects of a. storm you Raise your hands and exclaiTn, What : l ' i What wasted power '" What sense is 1 there in flashing rocks, piers and boats, the latter into destruction. But is there not a parallel between the sea in a temp- I est and man in rage? When you see a man tearing around like a mad bull making wife, children and servants tremble, he shows energy, but he is mak- ing a fool of himself just the same. Na- ture makes just as much fool of her self in flashing the rocks as man does in tearing his hair,
 At the time of this writing, news comes from Albania that unless the United States interferes there will be a genera war throughout the Balkan states. Prob i ably the feeling is strong throughout this region of political volcanoes, that i , they fly at one another's throats as ir the past, they can appeal to the generous sympathies of the United States and w shall relieve their starving thousands a! the results of war. Would it not be justified policy on the part of our gov
 ernment at the moment war is declared between any two or more of these state to send a firm but courteous note statin: that the United States will no longer b. | accessible for funds to help foreign na l. tions recover from the disasters of war
 
 = the abolition of war, and the nation 7 simply must learn to settle their differ T ences by other methods If the Unite , States and Canada with their extenstv . boundary can live in peace so can tn :, Balkan states with their lesser areas. =. Apropos to the question of helping fin
 starving looms up significantly the Rus T sian situation. If any good can be ot ] Il la in oF :, the threatened downfall of the sovie U government. Leaving the people then :. selves to work out remedial mea sures is U tacit confession of failure, and the -pec pie will not be slow in digesting t h meaning. We know not what sort s home rule the Russian people would | e capable of putting across, but one thin l. is sure they could net blunder more con 2 pletely than the Lenine-Trotsky regir - has done. The famine conditions of tn
 great country burst upon the world < suddenly as to arouse universal susp /, cion. Starving conditions are not mus 7" rooms that grow in a single night, hent s- the grave suspicion that the willy LeniT e- is attempting to cover up his own to n tering dictatorship. It would be well s- learn more of the needs of Russia befol 8 making large subscriptions.
 'e There are many reasons why sumn, 'e cottagers leave for their regular hOm e by miG-autumn if not earlier First
 all, the summer cottage purports to
 nothing other than temporary res
 dence; it is not built for all year oce
 lpancy. The school make an fmpera ti' IT. demand on the boys and girls under
 certain age. A mans work has som
 thing, fo do with the locking up of | 1r cottage. The last straw that does Il eh ''break the camel's back" but effec
 what is inside the back is to see one af
 CT another of those with whom you ha m had delightful companonship, for or month or more, pack up and leave Y
 can easily stand the growing chill in {
 weather, but not the chill of the comi' s loneliness. There are few greater boo u in this life than friends and companion IT, Human nature has q limitIess varie
 of characteristics. We all possess acti
 Aity in greater or less degree With | ,,. average mortal it is probably in the le degree. In most things we are prone .4 follow the line of least resistance, a
 many would follow the line of no resi-
 ance were it possible. To illustrate u
 point take the exercise of walking whit il- as far as long distances are concern. in is purely voluntary. For the pure a joyment of walking, how many care
 or are able, to hike five or six miles
 a stretch? For a person in good hea ,ro such bit of walking ought to be or an exhilaration. It is not lack Of streng Dt but of practice, that forbids this for 9' most part. In order to walk long q
 tances easily the Aet must be shod r;