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Show LAND OF OLD AGE . The land of old age is an InTisible coon' try -which is air about ns. However young " you are you here been near it, and I should fount you unfortunate indeed if, in the heat of tne day, you hare not turned into its shsdr by-psths and lingered a inoment with Ha ouiet dwellers. It is a rery peaceful land there is not much work there to be done; duty is rarely aeea so seldom, in fact, that sometimes those pf ns who hsre gone there to lie for good feel thst we hare psssed our time of usefulness and hare momenta mo-menta f hot resentment that we are net out in the world doing its work for it. I feel thst way myself often and at such times mske excursions outside. Always th. gentle h.nds of my children lead me back " 7 my own country,' and J sometime, feel 4 ' the reeson w. resist tsking np our "V'soss there is this sense that we are not ViWed to com out when we wish, that w. ire kept prisoners not through our own wesknesaes, but because there are certain eenrentions as to whst is suitable or-unsuit- ' able for us old pople.--An Elderly Woman In Harper'. Baser. |