Show VOICE OF THE PEOPLE By Telegram Readers Reader Pens Sad Story Of Changes Years Bring Editor Telegram The week preceding preceding- Christmas and the Week following are the two weakest of the year for traveling salesmen So having nothing to todo todo todo do and ample time in which to todo todo todo do it I give you a squint at the year old fellows To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and andone andone andone one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living Yet YetI I wonder if there is any truth in the statement a man never knows when he is old I wonder if my case is not similar to that of many men who have passed the year 50 mark Yesterday I was up and off to work in less time than It takes to to- say Jack But today what a difference a few years make male Getting into my pants is no longer the quick operation of jumping jumping- into them both legs leSs at once and hitching them up on my way down stairs Without my glasses everything everything everything every every- thing appears as if I was in a London fog foS' so with caution I creep down the steps instead of ofa a hop skip slop and a jump from top to bottom and each step I take my whole frame shakes like jelly I have now reached the bathroom bathroom bathroom bath bath- room and m. m my shaving shaving- chore in instead instead instead in- in stead of a mile a minute motion is slowed down to a pace of a tightwad going to pay a bill Having Having- completed this irritating irritating irritating ing task I am read ready to wash and polish my face but my hair having gone the way of most all earthly things through force of habit I reach for a comb and brush never taking into consideration consideration consideration con con- that my top story is isas isas isas as void of hair as a new born baby is void of vice I am now ready to sit down to breakfast but do not put it all into my mouth at one bend of the elbow and chew it on my way to work worl nor do I run to catch a bus as if running the thelast thelast thelast last lap in a foot race Yea brother all this means added time Of course if I still think I am amno amno amno no older mentally or physically than I was yesterday esterday all I need to do is go down to the beaches and smile at some of the peaches Mac rac Salt Lake |