Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER GROWING OLD TWO things the human mind dreads old age and death both of these we battle against and put oft as long as possible one be cause of the weaknesses and depend ency which it entails the other because we know not what Is beyond the result of this Is that very few of us grow old gracefully and attractively we strive to be young when we should be willing to be old we ape the tastes and fashions of youth when we have long been un suited to them and make ourselves ridiculous when we might at least be interesting it Is truer perhaps of women than of men that the appearance of a gray hair and the permanent establishment of a wrinkle Is looked upon as a sort of individual disgrace an indication that something has been left undone that should have been done or something done which should not have been done As a matter of fact there Is noth ing more beautiful and nothing more interesting than attractive old age wisdom which comes only with ears should then reach its highest development judgment which in youth Is neither sound nor trustworthy should then be dependable and worth while con suiting the time to prepare for old age Is before it arrives the time to prepare for the harvest Is in the seed time and auth is the decd time of our lives if every oung man and young worn un would keep the future in mind plan for it think for it study for it old age would lose half its dread and tenor and we should look forward to it as the time when we should enjoy the results of a well arranged prep it Is the old age which follows a lack of this preparation that Is hollow and sad the old age which has no memories but regrets its future gone its past a failure addelson great poet and essayist wrote he who would pass the de dining years of ills life with honor and comfort should when young become old AND WUL IS OLD THAT HE HAS OK BLEN we have not yet learned to keep the body from growing old the fair ness of the skin will die the hair will white n and the arini lea come rhe knee will crook less willingly to the will and the back may bend with icara hut the heart the spirit can be kept young the soul never grows old else the hereafter would lose its chelest glory grow old happily grow old grace fu ly accepting nature a decrees with n willing compliance to their require mints but think as long as you may thoughts continue to learn aws continue to progress there la much in old age that la beautiful shut bour to what ts not by |