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Show WHY DE CRABBED ABOUT AGE? One Instance, at Least, In Which It Brought No Good. At the dinner that the Chicago Press club gave In Edward Payson Weston's honor, t eteran pedestrian pedes-trian said of old age: "Age Is r cr1" ", but jou would think bo fiom the way somo people try to conceal It. Wo can give the He to age by being gay, Ugorous, bouyant, nnd it is foolish or us to resent our burden of jeam In any other manner. "The nged Ren Dalles of St. Joseph resented his jenrb In a foolish, crusty, surly way. "'Hello, old limn D.nles!' an elder-, ly St. Joseph law) or said to him one I morning. i "'Old!' Dalles biiailed. 'Old, hey? I Well, how about )otirself? I'm no old- er than you ate. What's )our earliest recollection?' ' "The lawyer giinned at old man Davies and replied: " "Well, let mo bee. Yes, I think , that's It. My earliest recollection Is , hearing rolkb bay: There goes old ' man Dalles." " I I |