| Show J ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL D By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK U tit of Mm I I nl of r SIMULATING TING YOUTH I believe bellevo In ones one's feeling and lookIng look look- lug Ing young oung as os long as ns possible It I la It foolish to 10 admit old age 0 i until It Is hi upon u WI us but these Is 18 a 8 certain Imbecility Im In hating laUn youth when youth Is ls far tar gone It shows a lack of ot a. a dignity n a lack of or S experience a lack of n a proper op- op of ot the relative o value of ot things t. t The story of ot the thet t friendship r I e n II s hip between be tie tween David DIl and Jonathan U Is I one fine of ot the Iho most appealing In III the I Is an nn Impulsive o boy full tull of ot play fearless r ready to totolo take tolo chances J Jonathan Is a warrior serious slow of lit action stonily middle middle- aged If not lIot beyond It II He lie e had hal ex experience x he hI had hod Judgment he had dig dl pity lie pretend to be bo u II boy buy nor did ho he have boyish ways WO's but he lie could sympathize with a 0 boy lIoy Clifford says that he lie and his boy are Ara Just which If properly understood understood un un- un H le ns as It should be What Gifford really dues does however Is IS' to ta act the Ibe part vart of ot a child when he Is with his son I am ani not 1101 at ot all sure BUrl that It pleases son sou SOli for he really Is 18 Just a little disappointed that when In company with him his father does not act like a grown man rather than thana a 8 school boy Deal Js Is a successful b business man who has ha's been belm out of ot c college twenty years or so 10 At home he Is II quiet steady and dignified He lie Is held up to the young men of ot his community as os a II model of ot exemplary conduct lie He I Is a trustee trustle of ot one of ot the churches and a 0 member m of the board of ot directors direr tors of ot the First National bank bonk of ot othis his town to When he goes back to visit vhs vis it Ids his fraternity at ot homecoming time Ume lie he wants to be 00 one of ot the boys Now a man mon Who has bas been graduated twenty wenty years or so BO Is ts forty five e or thereabouts and ond there Is no difference between forty Il and eighty to a 8 acol col col college lege leo boy The forty liver Is an old man lean and they expect him to act set like one and ond are ore disappointed It If he doesn't The tendency t simulate youth Is not con confined filled to men rnea Middle aged aged women and old women often orten try to be girlish and t too o often the attempt Is III pathetic To youth It seems quite silly and Ineffective Jl W N Onion |
