| Show WITH THE IS HIGH SCHOOL I 1 CLASSICS by MARGARET BOYD aby U Q liy by margaret boyd I 1 for or h herein fortune shows herself more kind than Is her custom it la Is still her use ur to lit let the wretched man outlive hi his wealth to view with hollow eye eya and wrinkled brow an age of poverty merchant of venice there aro are two periods in t the he I 1 life 1 fe of the average man when his wea wealth th Is low and anil when poverty comes very dose close when lie he has a houseful of small email children dependent upon him and when he N becoming too old to hold ills fits place in the industrial world the young man starts out in life with a great of 0 youth slid and health unless he enters one of tile the profess professions lons lie he begins to make the maximum wage within a few years of the time line he begins working As a general rule lie la Is wealthier at this period than 1 n n at any other time during his life As soon as lie he marries and begins to bring ring up a family faintly of children his ex benses begin to run even with his income or perhaps a bit beyond this Is a period when poverty threatens but it Is a temporary threat As soon as the oldest child becomes old enough to earn money or to aid in the fathers father work conditions begin to ense ease up tor for the father then follows a secand period of comparative comparative financial ease as the children begin to contribute more and more to the family support As the younger children begin to con tribute to the family income however the older children begin to set up households tor for themselves As the th children leave home and the father the age ace where tt liere he Is in ian dan ger of losing his work woric because he lit li too old for his place poverty again approaches pro aches lathe it the couple have been very skillful fu I 1 managers man acers or have been fortunate they may have been able to save up enough before the children left home to care for them in their old age ace but the average ddn iua n Is left to view kleiv an age of poverty and dependence old age pensions have done a tremendous lot during the last quarter century toward solving the problem of old age poverty but they benefit only certain classes of employees the greatest weakness in our present system Is that it does docs not provide work for all those who wish to work conditions are no worse in this respect now than they have always been old age and poverty have always been practically synonymous terms long ago ossean sang Il happy lappy are they who dle die in youth when their renown la Is heard I 1 the feeble will not behold them in ili the hall or smile at their trembling hands their memory shall be honored in song the young tear of the virgin will fall but the aged wither away by degrees the tanio fame of 0 their youth while yet they live Is nil all forgot death a necessary end julius caesar suppose science could today check nil all death then all growth too would cease for all growth Is at the expense of life As holland expressed it me ll 11 evermore to la fed d by death in earth and sea and sky and that a anse nuy may breathe breath etts lt breath must die or suppose death were abolished for man alone in it century or two there would not be space on tile the earths tur our face to accommodate till nil that lived renan in welcoming pasteur to th french academy said death according to it n thought admired by M littre Is but a function the last find and quietest of all then lie he added of hit his own belief to me it seems odious hateful insane when it lays its cold blind band on virtue or genius singularly enough this lost last sentence implies what has seemed to various men to be one of the chief chiet reasons why death Is a necessary end of our existence here if death wera pot to strike down genius it might soon become impossible to limit the human race to this sphere phere we have an inventor tor for example who has mastered the laws of gravitation and enabled men to fly we have another inventor who has enabled raen to corn cont mun leate with each other over long distances without wires I 1 and we ve have bore it ft scientist who teems seems to be at the threshold of it a knowl knowledge efte of the origin of life the minds of nil all these men are filled with knowledge that they cannot to anyone else cannot communicate to anyone andoh else tse suppose these men were not to die what might they not reveal to ul us I 1 what might they not accomplish for ual similar reflections led to write decades agot ago were not nun man to die ili lie were aars too mighty for or the narrow sphere had lit he out dut time to brood on knowledge hore here could he but train his hl eye might ha but walt wait the mystic word and hour only his hi maker aou would id transcend his hi power earth has no mi mineral norall stran 0 the illimitable air no hidden wi wengi airs water no quality lu allty in cover covert springs prang and ore are no power to change seasons no mystery and tan stars no I 1 apell which ne might boit ni compel |
