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Show How We All Takt It. Miss Elizabeth Marbury, the well-known well-known dramatic agent of Now York, told, at tea at the Colony club, Btory both amusing and true. "To grow old properly," the said, la, to grow old keeping the mind and the heart young. Pew accomplish this feat, but all think they do to. This misconception prevents old age from being tragic. "You all know Helen Uaih. She is agreat-grandmothcr now, but she was once a famous actress She clung to tho stage to the very last; she saw, year by year, her applause lessen, her salary docreaso, and her press notices shorten. Yet, do you think that Helen Dash was unhappy? Not at all! "Not at all. Whon, one night in bor sixty-eighth year, Helen, In a now role, got Instead of tumultuous applause, ap-plause, cold silence and even a few renomous hisses, hho took tho contro-'.emps contro-'.emps calmly, and on the way homo jho said to hor maid, a worn old worn-in worn-in llko herself: " 'I think I'll retire. Acting is thankless thank-less work nowadays Tho public has iged so ' " |