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Show j Dorothy Dix Talks I j By DOROTHY DIX, the World's Highest Paid Woman Writer ! FOR THEJRAJNY DAY j All of the thrirtv moralists front poor Richard down, have preached to us about the necessity of saving up -ome of the money we make .is;:inst old age It is good advice. Dreary as old age is at best, prosperous an! Indepen lent age that can Burround itself with physical phy-sical comforts la a thousand tunes more endurable than poor eld age that must He hard, and oat Scantily, and be thankful tor the rust that some grudging hand bestows upon It. Money in the siher lining to tb Cloud that hangs over our last iia.:. and foolish, indeed, are those ivho lsi their youth do not provide the means of brightening the last lap of then- earthly earth-ly Journey Indispensable as a good bank account ac-count Is to a happy and serem . I I ;u;e. there are other thing. which are equally necessary, and, Surlouslj enough, like money, these aIo haVe to be laid up while are are young We can no more acquire them after we are old. than we can set out at 70 to make a fortune So there are quite a number of things besides money that ws should begin laying up for the rainy day of old ace. First there's affection. Old people have no power at winning love, Their charm Is gone. Tne.r magnetism lost. They live on the dividends of the love they have hud ji in th hearts of others. Just as they live on the Interest Inter-est of tr.c money they have esVed This Is true even of family affection. affec-tion. The old father and mother w no are Iovc and cherished, ai.d have de-oted de-oted children, are those who were tender and affectionate, and chummy with their children in their youth They are the mothers who tucked little lit-tle boys and girls Into their beds, and told bed time stories, and whose breasts were a temple of refuge In which grieved little souls found sanctuary sanc-tuary from the troubles of their little world They are the fathers who were never too busy to enter into childish hopes and plans, and help them along and who were always a boy's and a girl s best pals. If you want your children to lovo you and be confidential with you when you are old, you have to begin laying up love for you In their hi artl on the day they are born. " 0U can't go on neglecting them and being selfish self-ish to them, and critical of them, and hard on them, and Then expect to find they are filled with affection for you any more than you could expert to find a million dollars to your credit In a bank In which you have never deposited de-posited a cent Next. If we want friendship when we are old. we must begin laying that up In our youth. The commonest complaint com-plaint of old age is that It Is lonely. If It Is It Is Its own- fault, because the friendly never lac for friends.. As we sow, WS reap. Those who go through the world sowln; kindness, and consideration for others, tbosa who are always reaching out a help-ing help-ing hand to those in need, those who give sympathy, and human fellowship never lack for friends. But you can't spend a whole lifetime, shut within yourself like a clam within with-in Its shell. You can't be greedy and I grasping, and cold and callous, and then expect to have friends In your Old age you've got to win your friend- ! ship- aa you go. You ve ;rot to bind 'people to you by years f kindliness : and s rvlco t,, t hem. We should lay up for our rainy day) of old age man) Interests to keep us I from being bored. Talleyrand udls- ed everybody to learn to play a g"od game ot wins- in iheir jouth so that they might not pass s miserable old age. Undoubtedly that is wise coun-sel coun-sel Also ll Is highly advisable f-,r people to cultivate fads. Collecting lulu china, or stamps, or prints, or pc-I pc-I rlod furniture, or growing roses, or 'raising dog-; are dchyhtiul hobby -i horses on which the clu may amble ithrough many pleasant years of what WOUld otherwise be a dreads road. It Is most important of all that we j should learn to read while we are I young. We should form the habit of reading good books because that Is a 'stay and prop that n'ver fails. It la the greatest resource that the old can I possibly have for no 'one can ever ; be dull or lonely who is free of the ' land of adventure and romance of ! books. 1 Then we should lay up for our old iage a many interesting memories as 'we can. In our youth, we should trav-I trav-I el as much as possible, so that when I the time comes when we are no long r table to Journey to far countries v. may have In our minds the pictures of I the strange places we have seen, the I taste of salt seas on our Hps, (he I scent of tropic flowers in our nostrils. The old people who are peevish and (fretful, and complaining who must always al-ways be talked to. and who live on petty gossip, are those wno have lived narrow dull, drab lives. They are 'those who have nothing Interesting and thrilling to remember. Then fore aside from the present pleasure of I travel, we make a good Investment when we lay up for our old age a store I of Inexhaustible recollections. Old ago has no terrors for those who have saved enough money to bo independent and who arc rich in ac-cumulated ac-cumulated friendship and love, and J interests, and memories. Dorothy Dlx's articles appear in this j newspaper every Monday. Wednesday and Friday. oo |