Show HAPPY OLD AGE AND YOUTH ambassador choate discovers discover eighth decade of life was best of all good world to live in each era of our lives has its peculiar compensations the philadelphia ledger declares when a young man is in college or a lad at school he to la often told by his elders that these are ara the happiest years of his bis life and that ho he should make the best of their brief duration old age will creep upon him will impose an increasing burden ot of responsibility and he must gather the roses while he may before the cruel frost of custom as wordsworth called it has nipped his budding aspiration I 1 budding mr air choate while amb ambassador assado r to england said ho he had discovered that the eighth decade of it life e was the best of all if an old man does not let himself relapse into egotistical garrulity his recollections of a useful past may be a of unfeigned pleasure to others as well as to his own retrospective mind it was the satisfaction of a life well lived to which sir W walter iter scott could brear bear testimony lonhart LoX to lockhart hart when the wizard of too the north knew that the end was near youth starts out on the long road eager ager and hopeful buoyant to try conclusions clu and refusing the thought of failure it Is a fine thing when a man imports into maturity and even into old age the indomitable soul that will not surrender to the years and has not been saddened by disillusion or cor by the loss of faith in human nature it Is a good world to live in at fourscore or at the rounded century an even better place than it was when childhood accepted without questioning an earthly paradise |