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Show HAPPY- OLD AGE AND YOUTH t AmDassador Choate Discovers Eighth Decade of Life Was Best of All-Good All-Good World to Live In. Each era of our lives has Its peculiar pe-culiar compensations, tho Philadelphia Lodger declares. When a young man Is In collego, or a lad at school, ho Is often told by his oltlorB that theso aro tho happiest yoarB of his life, and that ho Bhould mnko tho best of their brief ! duration. Old age will creep upon him and llfo will impose an Increasing burden of responsibility, and ho must gather tho roses whllo ho may bo- '"Tj Xoro the cruol frost of custom, as Wordsworth called It, has nipped his budding aspiration. Mr. Choato, whllo ambassador to England, said ho had discovered that tho eighth decado of llfo waB tho best , of ull. if an old man does not lot , hlmaolf relapso Into egotistical gar- ' j rullty his recollections of a useful past may bo n sourco of unfeigned pleas- 1 uro to others aB well as to his own i retrospective mind. It was tho satis-I satis-I , faction of a llfo well lived to which -- Sir Walter Scott could bear testimony to Lockhart, when tho Wizard of tho J Nptth know that tho end was near. f- Youth Btarts out on tho long road fagor and hopeful, buoyant to try conclusions con-clusions and refusing tho thought of t failure. It 1b a fine thing whon a man Imports Into maturity and oven Into ' old ago tho "indomltablo soul" that , will not surrondor to tho years and has not been saddened by disillusion or N 'by tho Iosb of faith in human naturo. 'It is a good world to Hvo in at four-4 four-4 . iscoro or at tho rounded century an ovon hotter place than it was whon '; childhood accepted without question-j question-j lng an earthly paradise. i |