Show WHEN YOU ARE GROWING OLD Now that ho he Is 93 the well well- known Chauncey Depew an an- announces announCes that he be likes old ne age well enough but that It is a bit lonely he has bas he says no one to pIa play with any more This Is a liable o anyone who In living be- be beyo beyond yo yond d his allotted three thre score and ten As the years cars slip by br the theold theold old friends one after another 81 p pawn awn away too t o and prese presently Uy one finds ends oneself pretty muc muc i h host d to a a. crowd of ancient ancient memories but quite solitary In the of flesh and blood figures There Is apparently little help I for tor n. n For while we grow old the world unaccountably stays young Not only do our friends leavE us usand usand and pass on our most cherished beliefs and Ideals seem to get left behind In the procession and we wend i dod nd that notions that seemed so advanced a few tew years cars carso ago o are nOw out and quaint r There Is no new new complaint Doubtless Methuselah felt rather out ot of it toward the last and pined for foi tile the good old days dys a few centuries ago Very ery likely he be was given ghen to wondering at times s whether It really paId to Uve lve long long- longer er than anyone else Ia t the e great t r grandchildren of his old cronies must hare e seem drea mo moil moil- l. l ern em and 1 to this lag IDS graybeard Being alone either In old age or at anY an other time seems to have terrors for us We e erack rack our Ingenuity to devise means tOI to escape It we organize dubs clubs by the score We nock flock to theatres and bat ball games bames and the like we are even enn addicted to do- do doing doPing Ping ing our traveling In tours so that we may mar always be surround surround- surrounded ed by companions Yet sooner or later we must accept loneliness as our lot and subsist as best we can on our own inner re re- sources And it Is right ht here that our lives es seem to be faultily construct construct- ed d. d A lifetime devoted to the sell sell- log ing of the drawing UP of legal lebal documents or the m ln eus-ering eus of railroad trains Is tilled filled with n action but it has few heart heart- memOrIes that can bt be drawn dran upon later We spend an all pt pC our forces In v working and nt at atthe the last we find that our Inner selves els el s have somehow shriveled and nd become Age it not unenviable If It h his hisa a ba If life has been rIch Ich and full age will have hidden reservoirs on which to draw dra Age to be sure will always be some Mme somewhat what melancholy b t It need not be tragic It all depends on the lions we la lay In our earlier years year |