The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-29

was comforted because the world was great, and the social disturbances in France a mere speck in the vastness of things He warned his country men not to err by assuming their own times to be the worst. He kept level, sweet and optimistic in midst Of perils.
 The same advice might be given now. Bad these times are, they are better than the times just be- fore, which were better than the early times. The people of Mon saigne's day lived a ruder. harder, eearser. more painful life than we do.
 The~e is a certain wisdom in the practice which puts catastrophe to the front, and there is danger in an undue optimism. The doctrine of aIrs we'll leads to neglect. Mon taigne, as mayor of his city, neglect ed no precaution. But he kept his mind clear, his body active, and his soul serene.
 If the roof leaks, set a basin and be cheerful, but mend the roof when the rain is done. Only sane men act under this principle. William Sheri- dan, insane for many years in a Jer- sey hospital, killed Joseph CIee. Sheridan said Clee had annoyed him for five years. C1ee had been there for three years. Annoyances seem to have more duration than the clock authorities. The mind is too in tenslvely fixed on irritation
 Mrs. wiggs counted her many blessings In another way Mrs. Eddy did the same. and taught others. Mind cures are based upon this prin- ciple. Keep the mind away rom the unhappy thing. but not away from the remedy.
 If the mud flats smell, q ont worry. Build a receptorL If war comes, fight singing, but when the war is oven. have a League of Nations. Pledge peace Submerge hate talk In peace thought.
 
 Not a practical remedy, a sentence upon society is a sentence of annihi- ture. It goes on. whatever stops. The speech Of the prisoner reminds those of good will that a man Is his broth CTS keeper. Abate the evils that cause men to be badly born, wipe out the evil environments. A social men ace must nevertheless be reduced to no menace. His lack of fault will not change this. Society constantly destroys creatures which exist by no ault of their own. and are injurious not from will, but from inability.
 
 The mosquito does not suck blood to be malicious. It is the law of its heinz to do so. It is not the fault of cattle that they make excellent beef. They are destroyed because they ben eft society. which proves that what soever menaces society Is sure to be detested, if discovered.
 Letting woman into Inner Temple was progress enough for the time be- ing House of Lords decides that Lady Rhondda, heir of the great coal king, may not sit. because the grant of a peerage to her father. which gives the sons of Lady Rhondda a right to sit, precludes her by "si- lence" The case did not involve suspension of a right. So say the Lords. The women of England may say something with their votes. May hasten the end of the Lords, whose authority totters.
 
 North China Herald says that on her wedding day the Chinese bride is clad in red and carried in a sedan chair covered with red. Any person may pull back the curtain and look at the bride. Such exclusiveness is strange to Americans. The American bride marches up the aisle in full view. At the Chinese bride they throw hayseed. comparatively worth less. and eat the rise which is thrown at the American bride. which is wiser = The mind, having obtained a curi- ous fact. doesn't easily let so. The fashion is to ring the changes the Russian ruble. A letter came bear ing a stamp. which at the pre-war price of rubles. would have cost $2oo,ooo American. In fact that stamp bore a strict relation to the earning power of the person who mailed the letter. Money is merely a. yard stick. The commodity is the thing.