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Show LAND OF OLD AGE. The Land of Old Age Is an Invisible country coun-try which Is all about us. However young fou are, you have been near it, and should count you unfortunate Indeed if, in the heat of the day. you had not turned lato Its shady by-paths snd lingered a moment mo-ment with Its quiet dwellers. It Is a very peaceful land: there la aot much work there te be done; duty Is rarely seen eo seldom, in fact, that sometimes those of us 'who have gone there to live for good feel that we have passed our time of usefulness use-fulness and have moments of hot resentment resent-ment that we are not out In the world doing Its work for It. I feel that way myself my-self often, snd at such times mske excursions excur-sions outside. Always the gentle hands of my children lead me back to my own country; coun-try; and I sometimes feel that the reiion we resist taking up our places there Is this sense that we are not allowed to come out when we wish, that we are kept prisoner not through our own weaknesses, but because be-cause there are -certain conventions is to what Is suitable or unsuitable for .us old people. Harper's Bszsr. |