Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 29, 1916, Page 12

-(Written Special for The Bulletin.) One difference between a.philosopher and a fool is that the philosopher never makes the same mistake twice. “The fool does. In fact, for most of us, it's the only quick way to tell the two apert. is absolutely nobody who doesn't make mistakes. Adam made them, and all filially imitated him. Eve made them, and her daughters haven't failed (9 unfortunate example. Solo- e Ton made. them. ssme. thousands of | against mew prososiions of ene sont[ Ul 1846 shat Eilas Howe of Cambridge, them, if the recorded count is accurate, | Or another. We farmers get as many though he was rated in the Duns and Bradstreets of his age as of gilt-edged and highly Queen of Sheba made them if, as priv- ately suspected in high soclety circles at the time, her famous 1mp to ifem- = o salem was o matrimonial proposition, [it's a saddle pony : intended to entrap the already too|Tken we'll know whether to buy a sad- jidea made the real sewing machine much married Solomon into another|dle or a bottle of anti “They a’ do it.” Human beings, are 50 constituted and natural environment is so fixed that it is impossible for us to avoid making mistakes. In truth, we generally don’t know a mistake from a triumph till after we've made We've all heard the remark about the first man who swallowed an osyster, “He must have been brave, indeed.” He didn’t know, when he smashed open the shell and devoured the unknown thing inside whether he was making a mistake which would poison him, or opening a new door to the gustatory enjoyment of all his fellows and of urtold following generations. Tt turned out that he made no mis- Apparently he must have repeated | ‘Which showed that he, also, knew the difference between a wise man who eats good oysters when he gets the: chance, and a fool who starv becaust he won't swallow anything but Sucker-hunter Stump's “Health Food" i labelled algebraically gnd Doctor Fee-Grabber's “Anticuml- |,¢ we are to find out what it 1s. All | “prones” and “bars” and right. Not much to go on: no sort of clue visible. S'pose we t A minus B equals well: opposite and see how “A plus B equals Still no ve to substitute Perhaps we ma ubstitute ietter beozelum Pill: After all, though, that first hero of the oyster banks wasn't in much diffe; ent case from all the rest of us, al- most all the time. He found out about | X the oyster. True. But he didn’t find out |we'll I about the potato bug, because neither | any potato ror bug had then been invented. | to When the latter appeared what to do|get 'way down with him had to be discovered by try- ing all sorts of schemes, mostly mis- takes, till the right dose was at last chanced upon. Pretty nearly everything we do is done because we have found that we can't do other things. The baby is us-|is a mistake he doesn’t waste time try- | they ually just as eager to fly as to walk, if |ing it again. It had to be tried once, TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE IS TO BE A FOOL This is so constant and invariable o7 the window. that it can be used very fairly as akitchen stove, He doosnt see why he shouldn’t catch hold of it to pull him- self up on his chubby legs, till he has burned his fingers in the attempt. When he has done this once and found that it hu if he's a his descendants have Perhaps a scope and a vided wi skill in with time to had both apr perforce. hay ule-0’~thumb lenges about them. Of course, to death | werk. Ver: will pan out. try again, you put him on the top of the bureaw, he will try to fly off it as readily as he Sc long ago as 1770 an Englishman named Alsop patented a sort of a kind of a sewing machine. broider, after a fashion, but it wasn't much good at Sewing seams. another was invented by another Eng- lishman named Saint which was a lit- tle Detter but not much. Duncan invented and patented still an- other ,and in 1834 a Frenchman named | paments In South Willington over Sun-. Thimennier got up “a crocheting ma- = he won't 40 it againSnoblLaT Tor SqwE purposes” 2 4 - B * 3 W ca: e child and knows What's | Srcenonch sng Benn: neiom what and the difference between a blister and a sum-drop. would try to creep along the carpet. It isn't till he iearns that he can’t fly like a bird, but can creep like a snail, that he confines his energies to the solid floor and doesn’t try to swim out Same with the hot All through life we're bumping up way as any other folks, too. When one superior wisdom. The|of them trots itself out and impudently “Well, what're ve goin' to do the only earthly way we can answer is by finding out whether |tPe eye-end. or a new bacillus.| _And the trick was done. bag of test tubes and a shelf full of mysterlous chemicals and v a laboratory crammed with apparatus|long inventor. could find out, in time, by a course of dissection and polarization and cultl- vation in agar and qualitative analysis 5 i with accompaniment of much fizz. |a considerable list of clever but unsuc- banging and a very b: But most of us farmers aren’t pro- zl‘ctj;;e :;ogifl all all those things, nor with | Prov: istakes. e - g ] wo hed them, nor | making a due and just proportion of| West in Philadelphia, Penn. ce|his own and learning a liitle of what ill. o we, | N0t to do from each one, he at last hit all back on the old |on the trial which led out of the wilder- nd, try out our chyy- [ness. to find whether they are allf¥s o1 enemies, helpers or pest poisons and what to do with them or sing thes re-gone certainty. We any way. to misfortune, not o a fault if, after try blunders. the succegs. learn the truth. walk upright. tain insight. Tt i eptic. possible and actual. h a big micro- |2 bolt of lightnir d smell. cessful inventors. with them, if nurtured; that he from the orchard We're con- | read own quantity | ble X7 It doi then try the ultimate goal. fter letter X" or before we begin to get any light. That's our| Those obscure 00 or more. (e Fairfield” 1 cSix-46-$1295 rasema Power!! Few of us have the need or desire for a racing car. We are quite content to let the “other fellow” take his chances at 70 miles an hour—while we spin along comfortably and safely with the opeegomete.r needle registering 25 or 30. But every man wants Power in his ‘This car is @ thoroughbred—every inch of it. It is just as handsome as an automo- bile could possibly be, and easily capable of going 60 miles per hour if you desire so much speed. But —first and last—it is made for work —consistent work—day in and day out work. automobile—and particularly the . “Fairfield” owners don't have to make man who toars. It is good to sit behind a motor which responds eagerly — bouyantly — to the slightest touch of the throttle. It is good to know that you need only “step on” the accelerator—and the steepest hills will flatten out like smooth boulevards. It is good to realize that you command a vast store of reserve power which will easily take you through the heaviest sand roads “on high.” It is good to know that your automo- bile is astaunch, sturdy, dependable * Let him prove his case. Let him in- help-mate——not a treacherous - weakling that will lay down when the reabwork begins. In a word, it-is.good to own just such a car as the ‘Paige seven passenger “Six-46”. apologies or “‘offer excuses””. Their cars are out of commission at one time only—when they are locked up in the garage at night. And—best of all—you can readily establish these facts for yourself. ‘This car is by no meansan * ment”. It has been put to the gruelling test of more than a full year’s road work by thousands of owners. All that you need to do is get in touch with the nearest Paige dealer. troduce you to men who have in- vested their money in the “Fair- field”. Listen to their experiences —ask for their honest opinions. Do this—while the Dealer can still make immediate deliveries. Paige-Decroit Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan ; Frank C. Sterry, "Six33” - THAMES SQUARE GARAGE ;Mxmger, Norwich, Ct. but only the fool repeats his own \ I¥s pathetic to see farmers some- times trying to hide the tracks of their mistakes; to cover them over and deny them. THe wise man gshamed of his mistakes than he is boastful aboyt successes. They're Dotk integral and essential parts of the | who, after making a mistake himself, day’s work. On the whole the mistake is usually rather more important than is no more For it is by our mistakes that Wi It is by stumbling that we learn to It is by our oversights that we at- It is by our miscomputations that|has made as big mistakes. . we grow into precision. Tt is through the dimness of dawn that we come to the splendor of day. only by beginning as babi that eny of us ever get to be men. one highly philosophic writer has said “Fallure is a phase of success. How can we tell wha learn what not to do +And Echo doesn’t answer a word! to do until we It would em- In 1790 In 1804 John In 1842 named| Cod, Mass., were guests of Mr. and Greenough and Bean patented other|ifre B. B. Mathew machines, *Fhey all worked, in a way. and - "43 “two Americans 1ot one of fhem was a real sewing ma- chine as'we understand it. It wasn't| jp. named Mass, studying all these past experi- of these conundrums thrown in.our{ments and profiting by the mistakes of | hungalow. aii‘these past inventidns—as well as by a’good many of his own—at last_tris the scheme of boring the thread-hole| Archie Sanger who has had em- in the point of tne needle instead of|Ployment in Canada for five months But it wasn't lfke | out of a clear sky. e - It svas no perfection leaping unheralded | 3019 2 TF0NE Aty e uarantine we but full panpolied from the brow of a | fom, of2land his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert ods or| But don't you see that Howe was just | the ministers and others the Reir of his unfortunate predeces- sors; that he came into the inheritance | ing. they had planted and and | the fruit «ck-and-pinions” such as made up the formula | the works of their crude attempts, he might have kept on fooling with them to the day of his death. takes, showing him what to avoid. just so much narrowed Which he had to search just | Sunday morning_the sul So much brought him nearer to the|Sermon will be Easter Souls in Ser- ault. It would be|names are now practicaily the “A B” for- |outside of the en: mula out and finding it no go, we kept | neither wealth nor right on trying it over and over again. | §2, When the wise man fines that * the world, which pa: do, not for what Assuming no higher end of life than the getting of money, lsn't it clear that eeom ol Baimye S Dscas B34 W an 1t 's an mmo:lnl.fl ‘and Greenough's mistakes all over again, after they'd already mmade them once and showed him that he needn’t? That man is more kinds of a fool still repeats it wilfully and deliberately. He has no call to be ashamed of having made it once. He is weak to deny or hide it. Rather he should erect it prominently somewhere along his daily welk as a sort of sign-board and guide- post telling him where not to go. Nor need he hesitate to let his neigh- bors see it. For not one of them but But, for the land's sake, don't do it againi THE FARMER. Tolland County STAFFORDVILLE Reception Tendered New Methodist Pastor—Events of the Past Week. George Moore was the guest of rel- atives in South Hadley Falls recent- Iy. Tdward Kober of Hartford has been the guest this week of his uncle, Fred Kober. Mrs. Louise Zabilansky and little son, Charlle, were with the former's day. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hawes of Cape Mathews last week. Mrs. Sarah Mathews of South Will- ington isvisiting Mr. and Mrs. Ever- ett Mathews this week. and Mrs. Charles Hatheway, who have been spending the winter in Allston, Mass., have returned to their Home From Canada. has returned home and is working in That little | the Faban Co’s mill Quarantine Ratsed. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. removed from their home last week. " 0 M¥s. Martha Goodwin who has been It was simply the slow but matural|.p,pinveq by Mr. Jewett in Monson outgrowth from almost a full century's | g P BYEE, BY . o e e e catalogue of mistakes and failures by . home for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Philo “West are spending three weeks with their son Reception For New Pastor. A reception was heid in the M. E. church last week, Thursday evening for the new pastor, Rev. A. F. Brown. The music, singing and speaking by was very much appreciated by a large gather- Easter Servi The subject for the next _ Sunday It was their mistakes that made his| MOIng sermeon at the M. E. church triumph possible. If they hadm't al- show that there was no practica- ewing machine to be got by cun- and informed | ning combinations of mere “c will be The Methodist Church, _Its ion Polity and Belief. Last Sun- day the pastor preached two fike Taster sermons to good sized audi- ences. The church was decorated with Easter lilies, carnations and other flowers. A pleasing_programme was carried out by the Sunday school at the Congregational church, Easter Sunday followed by a short address | by the pastor, Rev. C. C. Next the vice. whose STAFFORD unknown won Howe got s " Thats the way of| Friends on Golden Wedding Anni- men for what hey deserve. Rev. and Mrs. I. P. Booth to Receive versary—Twenty Girls Club. n Sewing Mr. and Mrs. H. Ramsden of Dalton, Mass., spent Easter at their home here. The topic for Y. P. C. U. Sunday eyening is Courtesy, leader, Herbert Plumb Miss Margaret Glover of Quincy, is spending a week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Glover. At the meeting of Stafford grange next Tuesday evening, the programme will be furnished by the unmarried ladies. Miss Margaret Keefe of _ Windsot and Miss May Mathew of Worcester, ass, spent Easter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Keefe. The annual metting of the First Universalist church will be held on Wednesday evening, following the supper. Golden Wedding. On Monday Rev. and Mrs. T. P. Booth celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They will receice many friends who may wish to call from 3 to 5 from 8 to 10. Rev. Frank Manderson of Grafton, Vt. will supply the pulpit of the Bap- tist church next Sunday. Five Join Church. There was a large attendance at the Sunday morning service at the Universalist church when five persons were received into full membership. The Easter concert by the children was held at 4 o'clock, and given in a manner that showed much careful training by the committee having the concert in charke. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Orcutt of Bridgeport were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pinney over the week end. Twenty Girls in Club. At the second meeting of the Girls Sewing club in Grange hall last Fri- day afternoon twenty girls _signed membership cards which will be for- o the state agent. Each mem- make a kitchen outfit, con- sisting of a holder, towel, cap, apron and sleeve protectors. The work will be exhibited at the Junior fair. Gar- den and flower seeds are to be pur- chased by the Grange and distributed amone the school children the same as last year. WILLINGTON There was a good attendance East- er at the three o'clock service. The decorations were the usual Preston, Brown, Allen memorial flowers sup- plemented by potted plants from Hill- side, arranged artistically by Mrs. Smith and the church had never look- ed more lovely. The children of the elementary department were seat- ed upon the large platform In thelr little chairs. The title of the East- er programme was Easter gictory, and the eager cheerfulness with which the young lady teachers who had trained them. The exercise by Mrs. Reed's class of nine young girls was particu- larly pleasing. but the pastors _ad- dress was fitting and excellent. Miss Dunning led the singing with her usual enthustasm. There was a so- Jo by Miss Gertrude Holt of Stafford Springs. ‘o week end guest of Miss Pratt, who accompanied her upon the Ppiano. Miss Acce 'W. Pratt commenced teaching in Berlin Monday but as yet has made nn permanent engagement. Walter E. Gahan, his wife and her mother, Mrs. Ryan, have moved into the Dawflinger residence. Mr. Gahan is clerk for_state road supervisor of repairs, F. W. Pratt, i BOLTON Mrs. Charles M. Pinney has a new stx cylinder, seven passenger touring car. M. Clament- of Sonth Balten.is visiting at Miss N. Loomis’s. : O\ 7 New Britaiu visitor. Burdett recent guest of his aunt. Mrs. Jane Finley. Miss Clara Post of Hartford, spent Sunday witn Miss Anna Post. Mr. and Mrs. George T. Newcomb were in Manchesier a few days the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Shippee of New Haven were Easter guests at the home of Walter F. Mills. John R. Wilcox of Kingston, sheriff of Washington county, was in town on business Friday afternoon. A pet dog belonging o Percy Carr of Laurel street, Ashaway, was run over by an automobile and so badly injured that it had to be killed. Willlam S. McGonegal had an excit- ing chimney fire Saturday at his the sexton and Miss Mabel S. Mathew- son decorated very prettily the First|Easton, Mas Day Baptist church for the Easter |Dr. and Mrs Kenyon. Sunday aftrnoon service with cut| J. K. Lamond and family have re- turned to Middletown, Conn.. after a Mr. and Mrs. William of Peacedale, |xacation spent with Mr. Lamond's were guests of Alonzo P. Kenyon and | father, J. S. Lamand. family Friday and attended the fun-| Mrs. John Briggs is visiting rela- eral of Mr. Partelo’s uncle, Howard |tives at Wakefleld. rtelo, who died in the Bradford| Dr. Abbott was a caller here Sunday wreck. afternoon. The Sunday evening sing was held at the Home of George S. Champlin Sunday evening. Several barrels of tar have been de- posited in groups along the State road to be used later. flowers, and potted plants. Miss Reba Collins of New York is spending the Easter vacation with her [ cum Wednesday night. sister, Mrs, C. H. Palmer. '&ncwh Hollister of Portland was a AT 1.30, 3.15, 645, 845 THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN KEITH VAUDEVILLE ‘A Real Headline Act THE MAYOR AND THE HEBRON MANICURE Clarence Porter of Hartford is to GREAT COMEDY SKETCH move to J. B. Tennant's house soon. 4 People—Be Sure_and See It o L - o R R g | Pt mna l /L S U her son's for a visit. POLZIN BROTHERS Mr. and Mrs. Horfon were in Union- ville over Easter. Daniel Horton was home from Storrs college over Sunday. Miss Eva Jones of Hartfora re- turned to her school Sunday. Nirs. Clayton Lord was in Williman- tic, Wednesday. Walter Hewitt was home over East- Comedy Athistic Novelty TROY and MORRIS BRAZIL IMPORTED NUTS CARN Miss Myra Post s expected home ||l 1 Funni X Com from the hosital next week. e e SO o Mrs. Frank Post is to go to Hart- ford the fourth of May for an op- SRt B e TRIANGLE PICTURES Sidney Hewitt was in town over Sunday. H. K. Viner of Bristol and family were “in town Sunday. Farrar Emmons was in town for a short visit recently. Washington County, R. I Ever Seen, “WORK" KEYSTONE COMEDY COMING NEXT WEEK ALL GIRL SHOW Watch The Bulletin Monday 9 Girls fn One Act Alone and Two Other Girl Acts ‘. Kiaw & Erlanger WO WAS PAGAN®a: | was one of fhe world's immortals. But _who ' knows his _wonderful | life romance? Divinety | ¥ , his genius pen- . ciratea | the . wond With his divine Most ewtrasordinary - mance filied his whole life. This romance in all _its dramatic in- {ensity 1s now given to the stage for the first time. " George Ariss portrayal o s describably Interesting Ihavacter i ihe - most astounding _ Tev known to stage annals, HOPKINTON Decorated for Enster Sarviees Today AUDITORIUM Mat. 10c and 20c. Eve. 10c, 20c and Lewis F. Randolph, Jr.. of High street, Ashaway, driving a_car. LAST CHANCE TO has purchased and is Isabella S. Hull visited her . W. S. Gadbois, in East Lyme, jast weelk. Special Easter Services. Frank W. Mills, | noon. RICHMOND _ USQUEPAUGH turned to Wickford. 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