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Show About Growing Old A LEARNED writer in an eastern journal, through an extended argument, tells people peo-ple how to grow old. That has a superfluous superflu-ous look on its face. That was arranged before the beginning of time. It is a natural process. A good many want to retard it, but very few want to accelerate it. And then it does not need any lecture, it will come of itself. A good many people have disqanted on how to keep young,' and 'they are sx'ird of an audience. But all the rpceipts havo failed; Others have written lee- tures on' how "to grow old gracefully, and they, too, have been failures. As well tell a man to walk gracefully after he loses a part of one foot and the toes off the other one. There Is only one receipt that counts when a person Is growing old, and that is to do the best he can every day, not being certain of the next; and that does not need any lecture; it does not need any reminders, because he has them with him. Sometimes they come in rheumatic pains in an unexpected place. Sometimes he gets up in the morning and finds that a tooth that ho has relied on a great many years is demanding a separation from him. Another frequent notico is that when he strikes very fine type he wants some young eyes to read it to him. Another is that the street car conductor wants to help him off or on the car. Another is that, when he goes to the theatre and takes a seat with the gallery gods, he cannot munch peanuts with that same enthusiasm which he did sixty years before. Another An-other is that a small boy can beat him in a foot race. The signs are plenty, and men waste thea time when they advise how a man should grow old. Old mother nature is attending to that all the time. She is putting more and more lime in his bones, which makes him more and more afraid to fall down, because the bones do not knit as readily as they did in his younger days. With the call of spring in the air and from one end of the city to the other a speculative and home building realty market that has not been equalled in many years, Salt Lake is opening open-ing an unusually bright season of commercial activity. The various residence tracts that have been established and opened in the more exclusive residence portions of the city, have never looked prettier. The reproduction above shows the two beautiful homes being built in Ilaxton Place by T. G. Griffin and Dr. J. T. Keith. Haxton Place is one of the most beautiful and exclusive residence resi-dence spots in the city, and the building restrictions restric-tions governing the construction of homes there are of such a nature os to Insure a very fine and attractive class of residences. The house being erected by Mr. Griffin and Dr " Keith is built across the south end of Ilaxton Place, facing Brigham street, and gives a beautiful beau-tiful finish to the addition of a nature one sees Three thousand years ago a gentleman who had studied the question, gave some of the symptoms: symp-toms: "While the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, 'I have no pleasure in them;' while the sun is not darkened, dark-ened, nor the light, nor the moon, nor the stars and the clouds return not after the rain," etc. And he might have added that the way to grow old is for a man to do the best he can every day and to nurse the belief that, if his soul is immortal, im-mortal, it was planned that he should grow old, and that he should go gently down the slope to the grim gates at the lower end, and that when they open, possibly he will find that the elysian fields, all flower-crowned, will be smiling beyond. SHhHBHHp 9!tKK HHRRB si, lift JLJfl vaBBBBBBBBBS9ShHbB90 ifsliAiAKBsS - kSniuL&HflSSSSV |