Intermountain Catholic | 1900-01-27 | Page 7 | On Growing Old

ON GROWING OLD. To grow old nicely is a great tart and old people are quite mistaken in imagining im-agining that they must necessarily be bore to the young, though some elderly el-derly people are certainly trying; the old gentleman, for instance, who cought despairingly, not because he has a cough, but because he has known life and found it hollow; the old lady who perpetually shakes her head, not by- reason of an attack of 'the palsy, i but to proclaim an abiding sense of the wickedness of the building world. There are other specimens of oid age that might be mentioned with reasonable reason-able disapproval. But pleasant old age, ripeness, mellowness, fullness of knowledge, white-haired sense combined com-bined with white-haired intolerance, , strong-hearted faith how good it all . is! Old age guards the world from : many a folly. Old age reads aloud to us fascinating pages of the book of experience. ex-perience. Yet nowadays the old lady whom we can all love and admire seems, dying out and her place is taken by another who goes about with a waist of 1G, hair of 22 and eyes and mouth between be-tween GO and 70. Age can rarely be altogether hid. It will neep out some- I where.