Show A STUDY IN CONTRASTS S BV lY ELL WHEELER Copyright 1903 1908 Two women who had passed the thet t score and l c ye year yeal mark were encountered in one week weel Each looked her age but tho the difference between the two was as wl wide wido e as l tho the universe One was quietly dro dressed se and anti her hair hall pleasingly looped about her sweet and kind face tace She spoke softly softy ln and only when she felt called cled upon for tor speech and she listened welL She with was wa tolerant and arid kind in her views lews o of Individuals and epochs epochs She Sho did not thru thrust t her age upon the lIsteners listener but she spoke of oC events I which had hat transpired during her lifetime lifetime life life- Ife- Ife time and made rado no effort efort to seem younger than she lo She loft loC the impression on those who vho encountered her of or n a line garment garment garmont gar gar- ment mont which had been folded In sweet lavender In Tho The other woman oman was much bewigged bewigged be- be wigged and with sith diamonds Hera aoa was hardas int int- int h her r mouth thin nd cruel her cold and critical There Thereas was as wa not one vestige of ot youth or 1 tho the charm of middle middio lo ago age about her personality She was an old woman but she talked to women of 35 and 40 0 as a If It she were their contemporary She Sho dragged the subject of age gc Into continually referring to it as ns something in the remote distance dis dis- tance She Sho spoke of or younger women espe- espe tal laity of or those who were distinguished for Tor their charms with wih veiled crl- crl crit crit- Scandal al and unkind gossip she con con- in a adroit language and always alwa's after she ceased speaking one ono felt tel as when the tho sting of a chill chi east cast cat wind has ha blown through an open window ow The rue young oung people of or tho the da day were characterized as a ill bred bred 1 and n vulgar and lifo 10 was referred to as a a farce which must bo be endured and disillusionment disillusionment as a n certain result of ot experience All Al th tuFt t money could bes bestow ow had fallen falen to the lot of or this woman durIn during during dur dur- In ing her entire entro life The other had known the tho need of oC rigid economy until in her old ago age competence had come to h her r. r Yet was wa she Bhe not the richer of or tho the two E Ec Every c 1 young oung girl who reads these lines Ines is facing old oM age ago if It the angel ansel of or ordeth death deth does docs not call her to finish her career In other realms sooner Which typo of ot an nn anold old lady seems ho thu most mOt bl S j 5 If H gonto speech I and kindly views vows of ot life an and people if It attractive manners manners man man- ners anI ami auth sympathetic and ane loving of thought are to obtain In old ago age they must be bo practised In early carly tto life We Ye do not suddenly become transformed Tho The critical fn finding fault ing carping severe old woman is a creature to be avoided b by men muon women and children The Tho kindly patient patent companionable old lad lady is a jO Joy and a comfort to all al who know her het Which type t-pe do you ou think you ou have begun to emulate It Is only a little step from youth to maturity |