Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 24, 1917, Page 11

Written Speci: or The Bulletin.) Beware, duy brethren, of helf-conceit. It is: thefarmer’'s besetting. sin No, | don’t mean vanity.. There's & wide difference between ~vanity and self-conceit. I am weil aware that some dicfionaries glve m * as _practical synonyms; wnake.ong a definition cf the other. But even in words which ‘wre Ffl!l!d'l! Epensms, there are shades of difference. «=-Vanity is rather a womanish than e mannish vice. It has more to.do with appearances than .with actual =sles; manifests itself more generally in ribbons and laces-and face-powders; is commonly born jof = desirc to please =mnd to be thought pleasing, to attract -sttention and to win compliments. + AMoreover, those of .us mere ~males who have attained tc years of discre- tion know that it is neither ameiiora tive nor stratesical to criticisc fem nine foibles. - There are too many sliv- ers in our_own eyes to fit us for ex- iracting motes fram others' vislon. I don't remember ever knowing « armer, past the calf-age, who could stly be accused of vanmity. If he ever had ‘a togch'of the ailment, Tis first_experiencs getting manure cut of ‘the hog-yard cured him. Indeed, the tendency apt g0 be quite the otker ‘way—towards carelessness of personal “mppearance: and- neglect of dress, Ta- ther than finicky fastidiousness about _the niceties of ome's make-up. How | oftén, for instance, would the average farmer have his hair cut if his wife or his daughter or some other observing woman didn’t tell him, about once in as0 often, that he was getting to look s*disgraceful?” - How often would he ~shine his boots, if warning wasn't ®iven from similar quarters that he'd ook like a boor” if he didn’t? ¢ It woud be a_ hard matter, in any agathering of real farmers, to find one whose olothes indicated .that he gave them much thought or ever considered «themm as anything more than protec- stions against the weather. If such a one .were actually found, it wouldn’t “be a risky bet to wager that his wife “fixed him up” before starting and at he didn’t himself know whether his necktie was tied or met. Or, per- haps, even whether he had one on. ! No, after’ the ‘farmer has really set- tled down into the workaday habits of a working life, he isn’t apt to sive much thicught to mere adornment. On the contrary, he is apt to pay less <heed to his own personal-appearance than he might, in consideration of others. His_proper work is with the dirt and in the dirt. That is the crude sre out of which he must bring to light the treasures of field and sar- -den. He can't regard the polish of his boots -or the manicuring of his nails or the creasings of his leg garments above the demands of his occupation. He bmust “do”_ things rather “look” things, " Thus, gradually, .8pt to get into a state of mind which regards mere appearance as utterly _unworthy of thousht or care. Perhaps this is a mistake. But— It js often very hard to keep the ct middle of the road even with st intentions. ex- the If-concelt is rather a matter of bne’s opinion of himself than of a de- sire for others’ good opinions or ad- miration. P While vanjty 18 a'foible, a peccadillo, a frallty, if you will, self-conceit .comes dangerously close to being a <&lce. And a harmful vice, at that.For t tends so to inflate a man’s idea of Ais own wisdom and his own capacity J&nd his_own’ accomplishments as to Teave no brain-room for expansion in hew and perbaps promising directions. “Recall Gratiano’s famous description of a man : #Dressed in an opinion ©f wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; who should say, ‘T am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!™ =3 If y¥oux will take hold of yourseif and durn _the calcium light of keen obser- “ation apon yourself, you'll very soon e : _Clear your skin § - Makeyour face : 2 business asset That skin-trouble may be more than ia source of suffering and embarrassment —it may be holding you beck in the .business world, keeping you out of a = betterijob for which a good appearance .*lsreqaired. Why *‘take achance’*when -Resinol Ointment heals skin-eruptions so easily, 3:18 so simple and economical to use ? It =*has such a record of success that you “heed not hesitate to try it, even though zyou have used .other. treatments with a_iittle or no success. - =, PARME AND 4o that best. see, if you're a real farmer, just how Jmuch of this sort of thing goes into your ewn make-up. ‘Also, if your observation is keen and j guided by calm you'il see how such a state of things comes to be. You didn't set out with any delib- erate intention to produce them. You never said: “Go to, Ill become self- conceited.” Indeed, the chances are that you don’t beliéve, even now, that you 'are self-conceited.’ You'd madder'n a wet hen if some one told you, face to face, that you were. ‘But just take a few minutes of| searching self-commupion. before the clear mirror of truth, and see if you don’t discover a few streaks in the image before you've been gasing at it very long. Consider the farmer’s life and and it will be clear what a thrust his very environment gives him in_this unfortunate direction. His work is mostly alone. He has |a muiti-sided and complicated prob- jlem set before hi how to make a i dozen varieties of soil- produce at & { profit ‘several varieties of crops with an insufficient supply of more or less one-sided manures, with a lack of help, in the face of an unforeseeable season and- despite -the opposition of { hordes of bugs and beasts and birds and blight. . £ 4 - He has to study things out for - {self; draw possible concluslons ‘frefh highly unresponsive sources; reason jout courses of conduct and guess at plans where reason fails to connect with anything substantial. Often he has to rely upon the merest instinct, { when neither study nor ratiocination | nor outside information can give any clear lisht upon his way. As years g0 on, he accumulates a store of ex- perience. He knows what has hap- pened in the past to various crops and what may reasonably be expected te happen in the future to similar crops under similar conditions. He comes to know his sols, what they need, what they want to do and what they can generally be made to do. He knows what areas to ignore from fear | of possible freshets, and what to let alone through danger from possible drouths. Most - certainly of all, he| knows where, in the past, his jude- ment has been prowes wise and his methods good by success. Is it any wonder that he comes to have a pretty high idea of his own shrewdness? a characteristic of human na- ture that it should never forget its own triumphs, though its memory for failure is seldom as keen. ° ninety years ago, ndfather was planting & piece of It was a dry epring; the soil was dusty; passers-by, seelng the old man and his sons engaged in corn- planting, stopped by the wayside to ask him why he @idn't “wait till the sofl was moist. Some openly sneered at him. corn’l mever sprout in ! they said. “You're just time and seed.” The old man paid small heed to advice, warning or sneer. He simply repeated to his sons the orders he had siven when they be- | gan planting; “Dig down with the cor- | ners of your hoes till you strike m'ist dirt and put the seed down into it.” They did so. It didn't rain or even sprinkle for two weeks longer. But, five days after planting, that corn was pricking through, and six days after planting the rows were visible across the patch. Then the old farmer took his hoe over his beack and went down the field to the side nearest the road. Whenever he saw one of his critics aj proaching he hailed him. “Hey, there; come over here and see whether I know how to plant corn or not,” his challenge. “Said it wouldn’t never come up till after a rain, didn’t ye? Six days ago, that was, and now I'm out here ready to begin hoein’ it He remembered that occurre: the day of his death, and told ltn;;.rcb- ably a hundred times. Not only that, but his eon,—my own father,—remem- bered it all his life, too, and told it, over and over again. Did the old farmer “know,” when he was planting that seed, that it would be “up” in the record time of five day? Most assuredly not. But he had s belief. born of past experience and knowledge of that particular kind of corn on that particular sort of soil. He bet his belief against the other fellow's fucss—work and won. Of course, hiav- won, he couldn’t help bragsin jAnd tne story of that brag hai now ed ninety years, can pass iton toyou oo T That is just an illustration. P you see from it how na!unl?"hosl:l—l most inevitable it is that the farmer With scores of such happenings to credit in the past, comes to have a rather exaggerated opinion of his own farming wisdom? Can you blame him much if he prefers and insists upon having his own way on his own farm? Can you not see how, also, he grows into a feeling of half pity, half con- tempt for some other farmer who fails when he is sure he would have suc- ceeded under the same circumstances? M:mg]!;;rr_wordfi, don’t you see Mbw % er's self-ci what It feeds ont o ToTT Tt And 3 = n , natural:as it 5 you .xsi':,e how this very‘t!'valr':w::f ing self-confidence is powerfully ef- ;:glrlveoln -Z;;fl(“l'lg him bick’ from new s _open! out towar proved pr;;bect!? g it te ds im; e real spring and motive all progress is djanthllellorzow—';l:-' satisfaction with all that one accom- plishes compared with all that one might, would or could accomplish. The first mowing-machine was & -real tri- umph of human ingenuity. But it took four horses to pull it, three or four ‘fims Fertiliz to improve it,—to make it bet: still better. \ There Is No Other Six Il.ike This For Anything Like This Price HE Chandler offers iatrinsic value greater than other cars for which you are asked to pay much more. Greater value in materials, design, equipment, and, above all else, in the dependable and enduring service of its maer- velous motor. You may say it is easy to make such a claim for the Chandler. It is. And IT IS EASY TO PROVE SUCH A CLAIM FOR THE CHANDLER. Year-old Chandlers command 2s high or higher price in the used car market than year-old cars of other makes selling, when new, for two or three hundred dollars more. Could any further evidence be ackcd, to prove Chandler leadership in value? It wouldn’t seem so0, but let’s-make thorough inquiry. What other make of car, at anything like the Chandler price, offers you a moter which has been developed, refined and yerfected througliout four years of conscientizns-manu- . These aré’a.cts, Four-Passenger R oadster, 31398 " Four-Passenger Convertibia Coupe,- $1995 - AH prices . facture and not subjected to radical changes or experimental devices? Norne. What other make of car, at anything like the Chandler price, offers you such a proven mech- anism as the wh?le Chandler chassis? None. What other make of car, at anything like the Chandler price, offers you all those features characteristic of the highest priced, high-grade cars—Bosch high tension magneto; solid cast aluminum moter base, extending from frame to frame; big silent chains instead of noisy gears for driving the motor shafts; full floating and silent spiral bevel gear rear axle and Mght run- ning annular ball bearings in tramsmission, differential and rear wheels? None. _ What othef make of car at anything Mke the Chandler price offers you more utiful and comfortable bodies than the ? None. Ghandler policy has always kept the Chan- dler price low. Relatively it is lower today, when s0 many prices have been inflated, than eves before. and to yeu they mean a Better Car for Less Money Seven-Passsnger Touring Car, $1395 Seven-Passenger Convertible Sedan, $2098 Limousine, $2695 ©. b. Cleveland : COME CHOOSE YOUR CHANDLIR NOW - M.B.RING AUTO CO. Norwich, Conn., 21 Chestnut Street, Telephone 1290 * CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio 'men to operate it and a whole barn to store it in. Had the inventor stopped agricultural world -wouid ‘he set doggedly at work. ter and. recily guages as regrettable ignorance. He is less givem to bragging about what be has done than in sedulously hunting after ways.o-do better. He is_much. less anxious.to pose as “Sir g than as:a humble disciple eager to learn from any source, how- /er umpromising at-first glance. ©One of the best practical farmers I ever knew once told me that he had never yet-had a hired hand, ho mat- ter how —~umb” the critter might be about most th! ’E pleled No “one’.of -u: so’ much_ fhat A Knows | it _would seriousiy hurt him to know Jest a lestle” m ot . Miss BEdith.S. Briggs, - teacher in e the-Art school, Nor- ‘Williams® don - has been ill with Pomfret. sculpture. at wich, alse at school,. New Lon 8rip at her home in Scheol, 11l at_Home. Henry Wilson of _Philadelphia ‘is spending ‘a few days with Chester atstat, John Bradley has. gone to Abington, p istmas, - Sl antaten the emilep of Joteph EL.| oo Christmas A. Winfield Kenyon ‘is helping take 2 military census of the town.” ycThe Httls son o Pear] Adams has 1 1 home after spending a few days in WOODSTOCK VALLEY EAST THOMPSON home af Miss Edith S, Brigg: Norwich Art Mrs. Marcia Sheldon, who has been Mrs. Ellsworth Bixby was in Put- seriously ili for nearly two weeks, is|nam Wedfesday. slightly improved. Her daughter, Mrs. Harbeck, of Norwich, has been with her for a few days also a daughter trom, Providence. Miss Flewelling, who fell on the ice was _ down street this week for the first time since her accident, Dennis - Joslin §s substituting Will Kingsbury for a few days. Mrs. G. T.-Robbins has been spend- ing several days with her mother in Milbury, Mass. > L. D. Robbins was in Putnam, Wed- nesday to visit his daughter. Mrs. GeorBe Bixby ‘spent Wednes- day in Providence. = - - Mrs; F..C. Ross has returned to her Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA JOSEPH. BRADFORD, BONK BINDER Blank Beois “_ end Rulsd to Order, for Tggs 15 - Memorial