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Show The Way to Get Old. To the banale and eternal question, "How are you?" the wise old man allows himself but one answer, "I am very well." He knows perfectly well that his innocent deception, if deception it be, deceives no one. Perhaps it i3 well that he does not realize, for of self consciousness conscious-ness we have enough and to sparej that the remembrance of his fortitude, pigeonholed pigeon-holed and forgotten perhaps for long years in the mind of the listener, may come forth one day to hearten that same listener along the cruel way when it shall be his turn to tread it. For so are accounts carried forward and not always to the wrong side of the page, and if it is true that the sins of the parents are visited on the children it ia equally true that the luster of their virtues vir-tues shines on long after the darkness has covered them. Is he of those who desire pity for their falling power? The surest way of getting it is to keep silence. si-lence. Almost as important and almost as much neglected is the care for personal appearance. After 60 vanity of the person per-son should be carefully cultivated. After 60 coxcombry in a man and coquetry in a woman become cardinal points. Can it be Baid that the old as a rule so consider con-sider them? Contemporary Review. |