Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 27, 1920, Page 8

(Written Specially For The Bulletin.) “Little fishes in ‘the brook; Papa catch ‘em with a hook; Mamma fry 'em in 2 pan; Jokany eat 'em like a man” TYou betchs Johnny did! “Like s man”’ More like two men of vora- clous appetite, if my memory of the days when I was little Johnny is trustworthy. But, before papa caught them with that hook, and mamma fried them in that pan, and Johnny ate them in the manner aforesaid, that hook was baited with a wriggling angle-worm. Trout, whether breek trent or brown tzout or raimbow trout or speckled trout, Mo angleworms. As a rule, boys and girls and the men and women whom Boys and girls grow up to be don’t like angleworms, ‘Which is where the fish show the bet- ter sense. _For there is hardly a member of the Jewer orders of lfe which is of more ice to men than that same angle- and his. uncountable armies. . He wmay met be mice to lock at, ner *3 to handle mor capable of mak- ing a playful pet. But when you come ts talk about nsefulness and service and working capacity he scores up in the top “6f the first class A weil informed writer recemtly discussing the worm's 1abors sai: : “For ages they have been stirring the tep sofl of the earth, mixing it with herb and grass roots, aerating it, digging chanmels through which it absorbs mois- tore, and taking nitrogen from the air % enrich the food for all vegetation. We take pride in the huge tractors that plow By acres rather than by furrows, that torn over the sod of a great field be- sunrise and sunset. But -the an- family stirs more sofl in a year than all the plows and tractors in the world. That is what the angleworm does without making any fuss about it Morrsh for the angiewerm! Espec- fally for what it does; more espectally because it does the thing “withont mak- ing any fuss about it” There are a few meral and, I trust, practical iessons to "B drawn from the angleworm and its career. ©Ome of them is that “handsome is as bandsome does” Which im't new by 22y means, but 50 old that too many of ©s have forgotten it Not onmly is the werm unhandsome in appearance, it, in eommon with all the other members of the crawilng, wriggling, surpentining familles, is actsally repulsive to most people. Al of that sort of creatures mnd shivers through us at any umex- appearance. The other day I one of my customers, a city lady, greatly excited. It seems she had dis- covered a emake on her lawn, had there- tpen flied to the house shat all the doors, and telephoned breathlessly for a farmer meighbor to come over and protect her. The farmer sent his boy who found the wnake and killed }t. It was almost nine inches long and nearly as dangerous as two weeks' old kitten. But it was a ‘great, horrid smake” to the lady Who, a5 she fled from it, doubtless pictured herself being first Dditten and poisoned, then cofled around and squeezsd to death, and then swallowed whole, boots, Bairpins and all 'Y tried met te lsugh, as she teld me the terrible story, which much tremb- ling and occasional catches of breath as sbe realized her almost miraculous es- f Aasastensessreasree " res | AN oy ik [Ereoersesaressssetsaacisaceseneay, The Lesson of the Importance of Little Things. to her, “send for me, and I'll carry it home with me and turn it loose in my gardens.” “Why,” she ejaculated, “what do you possibly mean?’ Whereupon I explained to her that snakes and toads and a few such unpleasant looking crea- tures were really the best friends the gardener has, eating. more bugs and slugs and grubs in a day than he could Kl in a week. I don’t like snakes, or teads, or angle- worms; mot as pets and _companions, anyway. 1 don't want to handle them, nor carry them around in my, pockets as I have known small boys to do—and oc- casional adults, also. But it has long been an unwritten law in my gardens that they are never to be killed. Snakes and toads are working for me morning, noon, and night, eating - off the . pests which, unlike them, seek to destroy my plants. They do not look handsome, but they do a mighty handsome stroke of work in my behalf. Wherefore I cherish them, not for their -appearance but for thelr service. Angleworms are less in evidence. They burrow beneath the surface and I've heard of farmers who sagely opined that they “weakened the soil” by withdraw- ing plant food from it. When the sim- Dle fact is that they stir it, aerate it, Joosen it, subsoil it all their lives, and enrich it with their decaying links when dead. Which compound service they perform unheard, mostly ~unseen and usually quile upregarded. It is probably true in a literal and exact sense that they stir more soll in a year than all the plows and tractors in the world. Fur- thermore, they do much of their stirring and loosening and aerating and enrich- ing under growing grains and grasses, where clumsy man-made tools ecan't work without destroying more crops than they help. Second lesson: fhat a good many emall and . insignificant and supposedly contemptible things are, really, more important than bigger and showier con- traptions. The elephant is several sizes bigger than the angleworm, but he isn" worth as much, individuality nor ton for ton, 2s the angleworm hordes. The big beast makes a finer show in the circus up timbers that parade, and piles would crush a ion angleworms into slimy pulp, but all the work of all the elephants in Asia and Africa, combined, isn't equal in volume or value to that done regularly by the masty little worms in the soil And @ third great moral lesson is that the angleworm does it all without making any fuss about it. He doesn't ask for help or care or applause. All he wants is to be let alone ana allowed to work for us, without being dug up too numerously to serve as trout-bait. All his millions, working st once, don't make as much noise as a single snorting, back-firing coughing, clanking, creaking tractor. But ‘he gets there, just the same.” We've most of us known men of that men who made very little noise eir work and yet accomplished a tremendous lot by everlastingly keep- ing at it in a quiet but efficient way. Down in the bottom of our hearts, we've always admired them more than the slam-bang kind who can't stoop to pick up a pin without first taking off thelr coats and rolling up their sleeves and spitting on their hands and sending for 2 reporter to write up the performance. Why shouldn’t we also pay the tribute of our admiration to the lowly angle- the gloves look like new, and because you know the safety of Ivory Soap—that | your gloves are not being-injured even the least | litde bit. & Genuine Fvory Seap in Flaked Form for washing particular things Safe for Silks and AUl Fine Fabrics AKEa good rich suds by putting a spoon- ful or two of Ivory Soap Flakes into 2 ba- i sin half full of warm water. Then put your | gloves into it and press between the hands until the suds thoroughly soak them. Rub stubbormn | spots with a soft brush on 2 flat surface. 2 minute or two they are spotless and fresh. | Hang them in airy, shady place, and when dry, rub chamois and wash kid gently between the palms to restore softness and pliability. This easy Ivory Soap Flakes washing makes what he Is going to do, or obituary eu- logies of what he has deme? afire or turn: the world ‘tother side up, but we intend to make our marks high up on. the steep banks of accomplish- ment. And we are apt, in the heyday of this_vaulting ambition to disregard the small things of life. They are too un- important; too- contemptible for us to waste time or. effort upon. Nevertheless, it is the little things, the trifles, the seemingly unimportant de. tails which make up' the bodies bones of great things. Not _very long age s powerful touring car, carrying an- Illmols state license came to a stop in-the road just beyond my house. The occupants piled out, one after another, and spent the better part of an hour trying to make it go, again. Nothing doing. It had stopped in the middle of the road, and the whole neigh- borhood had to muster, eventually, to push ‘it one side £o_as to permit traflic: to pass. All the endeavors of the trav- ellers failed ‘to elicit even an encourag- ing cough from its balky engine. At last they came to my telephone and sum- moned an expert mechanician from the nearest garage. He arrived in due time, tried the starter, applied the crank for a trial twist, thumbed a spark-plug or two, unscrewed the carburetor and, taking: a ‘broken wooden toothpick out of his vest pocket, picked from the imnards of that device & bit of dirt not half as big as the head of the smallest pin. “Ten dollars, please,” said he. The Chicago man paid it and went on his cheerful way, With his engine purring as contentedly as a cat who's just had & mouse for lunch. It would have taken I den"t know how many million such particles of dirt to make a single acre of soil worth ot over ten dollars for pasture. I know where hundreds of acres of just such dirt have been sold for five dollars an acre. But that little almost microscopic speck of grit in the carburetor's needle vilve stopped an $3,000 car dead be- cause, small as it was, it was in the wrong place. This werld is & vastly more compli- cated bit of machinery than even an au- fomoblle. The smooth running of hu- manity in its attempt at progress in- volves the most finically exact participa- tion of ten thousand times ten thous- and co-operating parts. Checks and stoppages are less often due to the breaking of some big casting than to the intrusion of some tiny speck of grit in some hidden valve. Netable successes are more often and the +|result of care in small matters than of sensational splurges in big ways. I have several times quoted Edison's remark that “GeniGs is ninety-eight per cent. perspiration and two per cent. inspira- tion.” - And who was it that said, “Gen- fus is but an infinite capacity for taking pains?” One bumblebee makes. about 3s much nofse as ten honey-bees—and stores up about one-tenth 25 much money as one honey-bee. It ism't always er often the man or the machine making the biggest rumpus which accomplishes the most desirable results. The angleworm ranks. very low in the scale of life. But it has at least two wholly admirable qualities; it does i work thoroughly and it makes mo fu: doing it, The Wisest Man said: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise A less wise and more talk- ative farmer man may perhaps be per-! mitted to suggest at the same ume, a thoughtful and studious consideration of the industrious angieworm. A good many of us could material improve ourselves by such observation— it we undertook it humbly enough. THE FARMER. The walrus furnishes about 1,500 pounds of meat, 1,000 pounds of oil and 500 pounds of leather, and the white | whale furnishes much more. | In just { you can be sure— FLAKES for X 2% ZX X J 31st. AN\ X 2K ZX TN AL 2 a¥a ENL NP AN A e 1010 G 610 00 G108 mu—s 6110 | @m0t | smmm o e o m— ONLY FOUR DAYS MORE On Tuesday, August 31st, at the closing hours of this store, your opportunity to buy the finest Furniture at the savings that our Great August Sale has offered to many hundreds who have taken advantage of it will be gone, and the greatest August Furniture Sale in our history will have come to a close. Truly, it has been a tremendous success from every standpoint. Customers have received wonderful value for the money invested. The volume of business has been the greatest in our history, and the new customers added to our already large list have been most gratifying. There remain four days in which you may take advantage of saving from 20 per cent. to 50 per cent. on the world’s best furniturc. Nothing is restricted. Every article of furniture in our store is offered at a reduction of not less than 20 per cent., and remember, all of our prices are marked in plain figures. There has been no rearranging or remarking of merchandise, nor has there been cheap merchandise brought in for sale purposes. Simply deduct 20 per cent. from the price on the tags, and that . . . . ' means a reduction of 20 per cent. to you. You had better make it a point to investigate during these closing days of the sale. Choose Your New Dining Room Beautiful Living Room Suites AUGUST SALE : [ REDUCTIONS FROM 20 PER CENT. = i T : } We have on display a most beautiful selection of fine and comfortable e L e e Tt et oo e 90 -PER CENT.] (2o Bn: Fomiis, foor which yole i cinirse' oS iy of 20 per cent. These include American Walnut, Mahogany, Fumed Oak, cent. These, like all Dining Room Furniture, includes every living room f."“c?.'?.fi:ff;i.:f"flillr?f«'i‘;i?dw"fz’il’m"?fl o e é”u;’v" 'x‘n::”;g;fl‘xt suite in the house, regardiess of style, and you are sure to find overy style and also regular fines. UNTIL CLOSING OF THIS SALE, TUESDAY, and covering imaginable here. UNTIL THE CLOSING OF THIS SALE, AUGUST 31st—20 PER CENT. OFF TUESDAY, AUGUST 31st—20 PER CENT. OFF, Q . . . LIBRARY TABLES Now Is the Time to Buy Bedroom Furniture = Exceptional Values | See our fine asscitment of Sy e e Lib TeHe el b . o have never before been able to a:ndn\?; s eget;xe\r as.EIflcx,r 1.10; The Bedroom Suite illustrated above is but one of the many you will " vaé::tymm:::“fr::n“:;.:m: Ly e c Ripe find cn exhibition on our floors. Every style is repressnted in Mahog- iarge Floor Lamps, is here, in all the before the closing of our great any, Walnut, Oak, Ivory, Bird’s Eye Mapie and many others, and all are colors and shades that are sure to please August Sale, Tuesday, August. of the finest quality. UNTIL THE CLOSING OF THIS SALE, TUES- |hyest srstic, UNTIL THE cLos- DAY, AUGUST 31st—20 PER CENT. OFF, UST 31st—20 PER CENT. OFF. Your Last Chance to Secure This Wonderful 9 MATTRESS, AT $12.90 The $20.00 Mattresses that we are offering during this August e Sale as a special feature are coing fast at $1290. Remember, * theso Mattresses are cf fine construction throughout, being Our Great Club Ofier Ends made of clean, sanitary, new material with extra quality tick. 7 iy e e ok U pontmday, i GET ONE TODAY AT $12.90 { COME IN AND GET PARTICULARS Fine Rockers and Easy Chairs PIANOS AND PLAYER PIANOS H Luxurious Overstuffed Tapsstry Rockers / Your last change to secure a Piano or Player Piano - = : : { at a saving of 20 per cent. Remember—All Pianos £ share in the big saving, as well as those ! 5 on our floors, such as Chickering, Hardman, Hallet Fumed Oak, Jacobean Qalk, Brown Mahog- : ‘- ME world's best makes, are offercd UNTIL :HEUC(;?S-; any, Leather, Velour, Damask, and in fact, . &‘:';':’n.é{:?l’;‘v'fiu P e et everything that could be desired in the way %o : - of Rockers, and all are reduced UNTIL THE 5 : EXTRA SPECIAL CLOSING OF OUR AUGUST SALE, e TUESDAY, AUGUST 3ist — 20 PER | August Special, at $48500. “Better late than never,” CENT. OFF. i r“::l:: ;&::'anhgg of this opportur.uty before Tuesday, WE WILL STORE T H : T without charge, any furniture bought during LA u - GA n n E N 00 ] this sale and deliver same when you are ready o it. This will enable all to take advantage ¢ (EStathhed 1872) of our August Sale Prices. 135 to 143 MAIN STREET o1 Iof1e1 1ede i 0| SHEND (01 ® | SRS [ © 10| G| © 5 © | GND | © 10 | SN0 O G 3 L XA WE NE XE XZ WE N4 XZ io0 <y - - - —— g - - q‘