Show GETTING G 1 N C OLD 0 LD dill did you ever consult neit the r mirror r r 0 r to ascertain whether you were w ere growing old to detect if you yon could a pair of feet and a crows at that at the corners of your eyes to see if that gray hair fair somebody charged you with having yesterday was nothing but a peculiar reflection of the light and not much whiter than the ace of spades after all but tile the mirror is nothing to go to for information it reflects to very little purpose if you would know what age is doing for you look upon the face of a friend you have not seen in ten tell deais and the story is as plain as a pike staff I 1 there is something or other about him you cannot quite understand his features aie a little sharper the expression of his eyes a little colder of his brow a little haider of his mouth a little firmer to be sure his laugh gone but a tooth or two has he is tile alic same yet not the same but yet somewhat harder and rougher and not so much of him as of old but the strangest stran 0 est of all is his hand that has grown older faster than his face ilow allow soft and it used to be you remember and plump as a partridge rid 0 c there was a tracery of blue veins veins upon the back of it and you and lie he used to read each others toi loi tun tunes es and life journeys in the meandering currents that flowed on oil so quietly just under the surface but it is moie like a clow now as if lie ho used it in digging 0 then it is as browdas brown as october the full rounded muscle lias has shrunk away from the veins and they stand out like ridges in a fallow veins indeed they look like a handful of whipcord there is a knotty feel about tile the joints as if you were grasping a handful of walnuts then again his hair lias has grown rown wiry iviry or bristly or 0 gray ray or som something ethino 0 that it was not 11 for or the truth is it is growing upon an all old licad head you think as you look at him is it possible and lie he keeps you company with his wonder liow hov can it be 11 and in that look you you have seen yourself as lie sees you as as they all sec ee I 1 you as you are I 1 |