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Show o - -- . - . f .J HoardingJThrilU 4. ER. WAHID!: has never taken a railroad trip, though for thirty-nine years he has been the railroad station agent at Milton, N. Y. Now, retired on a pension at the age of 5 7, he starts a 7000-mile jaunt in a Pullman. He will travel over the continent, visiting the alluring places to which he has been selling tickets since 1SSt. To put yourself in his place for a moment, just recall your breathless excitement when you took .your first railroad trip, long ago. Many a man who figuratively "has seen and done everything" would trade several years of his life to have followed Waelde's system and saved up a few of life's simple thrills. Youth says, "Hooray! I'm going there, f irst trip. Don't you wih you were me'" Old age, conceited, cynical, boasts scornfully, "Aw, I've been there. Don't expect too much. You're apt to be disappointed." dis-appointed." Yet old age envies youth's excitement excite-ment and anticipation. When those are gone,; youth is gone and, with it, most of life that is , really worth while. j Joy is in the pursuit and conquest, not in the capture and victory. Anticipation beats reali.a-j tion. You voung men, taking hard knocks, trying'' your strength, you do not realize it but with all your hardships and disappointments you are living the best time of your lives. The trip is the thing that counts, not the destination. ; The lure of the sea, also its charm, is in the voyage rather than the faroff port. Young women, too, some day will look back with misty eyes and long for the dreamland of girlhood.! Don't be impatient. Everything in life comes oh, only too soon. I |