Show MAKING OLD PEOPLE HAPPY An article in the October r Wom Womans Woman's n Homo Home Companion on Making Old People Ha Happy py contains tho the following The secret of ot making old people happy la is primarily to disguise the fact tact that they are old To pet Jo to indulge to tonU nU nurse e to manage without giving the ghost of a n. hint of theres there's there's theres theresa a nice problem for OT tact Cons Conscientious young people especially If It they have brought up UI vigorous children find it hard to relax their disciplinary zeal when dealIng dealIng dealing deal- deal Ing with the frailties of a age e. e They seem to forget that childhood and second childhood child chIld- hood face opposite ways that it is not character building they havo In hand but the sweetening of at a bitter i experience They dont don't realize how natural how In Inevitable inevitable In- In evitable Is IB the recrudescence of ot primitive primi tire tive emotions the development of ot a n. purely purely purely pure pure- ly personal point of or view Yet no real kindness toward the aged is 18 j possible which does not recognize tho the hard mys mS mysterious facts Old rage age is beautiful when It tt Is K guarded sympathized with and un un- Old jOld ld people Coplo often come to feel fee that they are not regarded as ns' ns one of at the family The tro trouble ble springs naturally from purely physical causes They de demand de de- mand mandau mandan an amount of or artificial heat disconcerting die dis concerting youth to-youth and ond middle age Even Evon Evenin in Augusta August a nonagenarian will hug a n. fire tire After smothering attempts attempt to keep the living rooms at a ft tempera temperature turo satisfactory satisfactory tory to the tho torpid old body the family falls into the easy solution of ot leaving IT grandma to to toast her toes before belore an open fire In her own TD bedchamber Unfortunately this is the b beginning of ot a a 1 proc process s of isolation from the heart beart of ot the family life me Grandma will wUI miss man many a. a a story tory because sho she sits apart More lor and more will she drop out of tho the Interests of or the clan clon until some somo day sho she wakes up to feel teel that she Is no longer consulted no longer thought of except In inthe the tho way of duty no longer a vital vita part of th the tho family Better Detter a 0 thousand times devise means moons to warm th the show alow old blood bood without de Se de- de her of at her place in the homo home clr- clr la |