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Show ONE REWARD OF cOLD AGEhH Worries That Eat Into the Hearts of Younger Folks Do Not Cut Aged So Deep, Says Ada Patterson By ASA PATTERSON WE STOOD looking down at the face of a woman aaleept "Old age, at thia point, ia very pitiful, " I aaid. "No," aaid the doctor. "I would rather be that woman you are pitying than either you or me." "In aeeond childhood t" I exclaimed. j "In aeeond childhood," he repeated, and gjav I will tell you what he aaid for it may bring you -fa La- the degree of comfort it brought to me. "Take youraelf or me," he aaid. "We M m till have the moat accursed power of maturity, ' J the power to worry. The thing that worriea ua jfl WaB geta beneath the akin. It geta into our yitala. V It tormenta ua. It may even kill ua. The men Br who made the legends that have come down egS IbbbsW the agea, the atoriea about Tantalus and Promo- Cfl Bk thetia meant just what we see in the careworn fl Be face of every man or woman we meet on our Pkk way downtown. They meant worry. Ton and I ean't get away from worry, because we are in full possession of our faculties, and our reason tells just how important ia the obstacle in our path. We have a full sense of things. We know human nature fails in some times of stress and we fear to trust it ton fr waiting than let Mr Brawn, who Is 7, fxl neglected " Til try la And time to oan today." "I hop you will, but I win io, at any rata." Tha woman's face waa deter. mlnd Tha man'a cheeka wara ttuabad. "I'm raally aorry. Mollla," ha aaid. aa' ha halpad har off tha oar. Waan't aha rtghtT Eraryona oan spar, five minutes and a oall on tha aged, a telephone oall, a poat oard aant from our vacaOon ape, a latter of Inquiry about thalr health, a flowar for tha room of 'sMeneaa that will aoon baooma tha room of alienee and atarnal paaea. Wa oan all give thaaa Joyi to tha grar haired children. It la our pleasure to brlahtan flrat childhood It la oar duty to eweeten aaoond childhood. , "But people Ilka har," he looked at tha faoa 1 an which atxty-flre years had left thalr footprints, and yet at that Instant In-stant looked young,' "such people an blaaaad. for thalr ararrtaa cannot last Ions." "Tha world la full of misnomers, but that man made no mistake who named tha last period of Ufa aaoond childhood. Don't think of It only aa a time of the breaking- of etrength and tha loee of powers I tall yon It la wall named second childhood. Nature provided It aa a beautiful vacation time after a Ufa work. Think of childhood Itself. Who wouldn't be a ohlld sjrsln? Its sorrows axe sharp and sudden, but they are aoon forgotten There la no continuity con-tinuity In childhood. "The man or woman who le in second childhood has all tha Joys and privileges of the flrat. Tha traateet la exemption from Ions worry. Emotions are transient tran-sient and srtef cannot dwell with them. "While they lack tha power of continued con-tinued worry, they have a keen enjoyment enjoy-ment of trifle. Little thins please thsm Immensely, and wa must all connive con-nive to give them aa many of the trlflea that spell pleasure for them aa poaelble." The doctor hurried on to his neat patient pa-tient and doubtless aoon forgot his homily. But yesterday In a crowded car that waa creaking Its way across Brooklyn bridge I waa again reminded or It "Did you call on Mr. Brown yeeter-day?" yeeter-day?" asked a brown hatred woman who eat In tha aeet ahead. "No." aaid the black haired man who sat beslds her. "But you should have, Insisted the woman. "I have a lot of other things on my mind." ao began the defense of the man, who doubtless was her husband or brother. "Bo had he. but ha didn't forget ua once when we were In trouble." "1 had all I could do to finish my work In ton hours." "But that would have taken leaa than , five minutes, srid anybody can apara five minutes." The woman's tone was oool and Judging. "He has been our friend sines ws were both babtee. He la arrow. Ins old. At his age little attentions mean a great dsal. Bines u didn't rail on him yeelerday. I will call today." to-day." "But you'll mlaa your train to 8adte's and she II be waiting for you at the station sta-tion " "I would rather keep Badls. who le St, |
