Show I JOSEPH CHOATE J Joseph Choate has reached score four-score years cars Looked at from a distance l he lie c must have gotten about as much out of life ire as s any one could lie Ic has always supported himself easil easily he is so much of a scholar as to be bc in accord with all great souls in the tile flesh or 01 or-in or Ill n the spirit he w Was as given many natural gifts gills which make malc himat at home everywhere ho lie is one one of the themen who alwn always s 's look up to worth no matter in what what- form it comes and down on royal rOjal or 01 pI plebeian shams Then rhen he has a sense nse of hu hit- humor mor mol so sq exquisite that he be can cati see sec the jolly side of When h ambassador Great e cl everything thing was wa to Britain and a Scotch lord invited him liim Wm to to a great banquet to be given in iu his honor in iii the highlands and he hc had accept accepted cd and was seated beside the tire I host and the lairds in kilts kills be began an to stream in Choate whispered to the tho host that had he l known it was the fashion in the highlands for gentlemen to attend banquets without trousers he lie would have havo left his at tho the hotel It was only an i illustration of the mirth that has kept his soul warm for ei eighty ht years lie lIc has always had bad a point of vic view different differ ent cut from front the masses of his f fellow men which has uris enabled him liim to find tongues in in iri trees jokes in tl thie running brooks sermons in honest laughter au hl r fun in everything May ra it be bc so to tile the end A world filled with such Mich men inch as he lie would need no other world to punish pun ish isit scrubs and and reward honest men for fOl there would be no scrubs to punish and honest honesty would be he the thc rule ule I |