Show I l 1 Hermits Still S Exist S l 4 I In 1 these days day of ot extensive I e gr gregariousness g when human bees beel are lUe hiving eo so thickly In largo large cities s one m marvels nels to read ot of a n. man who for for a 0 quarter of ot a century has hns preferred a R. lodge e in some vast wilder ness to a a. place he ne might 15 see a n. movie show ride In ft a- street czar car fir or take tt dinner in a n. restaurant But that there still sUIi are are people as ss hermits is evidenced by an o occasional news item Iten such auch as M that telling g of at the history and death of f Oliver P P. Justice who for tor twenty five years isolated from tile tho world in o a wild place thirty miles milts up San O Gabriel l canyon nyon his little c cabin being so seldom seldom- visited that it was s several daya after his demise that thal his body was wits found by a n. forest tanger ranger This man had outlived nearly all aU his hla time old-time friends and relations and had bad been forgotten by bythe bythe the world Great Grent battles had been fought rought during rIn his long period of ot retirement the aul automobile and radio had been perfected and men had flown h across the ocean But Bur if It ever vei evet he ho heard henr 1 of ot these things be vas he was not moved to 10 leave his wild retreat nn end and 1 discuss them With Ith other mem men He had solved the he problem of at loneliness lone lone- liness the tue p specter from which So o a many marty men and women flee a a. plague and preferred a 8 solitary life Ife to a social one We d He Ha must have have- been e n able to answer Cowper's question I Oh Solitude where are the charn charmi That mat sages Meta have hae seen in thy t tit face e And to tot o tell Un of what those charms charnas consist but bui he hec c not could not have p persuaded th the average mortal of ot this burly hurly Dg age that they were were to those thos to la ba bo found un under er the bright ht lights Here a. a question What profit is hI there Ins in s self lt- lt Ope Oe l to l b be alone at at times time's s but no matter maller what may be e th e oue for tor carrying BO so far us t to e choose t e. e l p permanent nt aloofness from the from r m the human race one really can find ho no great and Tasting lasting I good o a hi in a a. Los her hermitage lt Loa n J Angeles les Times Editorial I |