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Show At the Half-Century Mark. Youth is eternal to him who believes in eternity. To me youth means anywhere any-where from eight onward. I was an . exceedingly old person at eight and I trust I violate no confidence when l confess a youthful exuberance now that I have bumped against the halfway half-way post. Fifty is a splendid time for youthful expansion: one's iancy stil! retains all its ingenuity while one's judgment is bettered by experience When sitting on the 50 milestone the vane of man's vision points southward to the past and northw-ard to the future fu-ture with a minimum of oscillation. Rancorous thought and splenetic expression ex-pression give way to quieter nerves and calmer view, and the mellow light ed vista of the years that have gone sotten the heart of the youth of a hall century of years. John Philip Sousa in the Circle, i |
