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Show Old People's Village. Thcro Is a llttlo village, at tho foot of tho Litchfield mountains not far from Waterbury, Conn., In which scarcely a child Is to bo seen. Practically Prac-tically all tho resfdents are old peo-plo peo-plo who havo been born and brought up In tho llttlo village and havo novcr been further away than Waterbury, a distance of 25 miles. The Inhabitants of this quaint seml-abandoncd town number less hau 75. Onco upon .a time It was a much larger and prosperous pros-perous community, but, llko many New England towns, It has been left to take caro of Itfsclf, while tho farmers farm-ers moved to tho nearby cities to enter en-ter business Instead of dovotlng their energies to tilling tho soil. Tho average av-erage ago of tho residents now living thero Is In tho neighborhood of tho foil i'-score mprk. |