Show till OLD HOME TOWN ahe the world Is wide they tell us flut cut after all is said the world tor for of us its is confined in the limits of 0 the old home town the in ire frequent quent visits to the near or perhaps dibtan city only tend to bind our heart strings more to the little city we call home the e towering iky skyscrapers scrapers can never take in our deep affections tile the place held by the architect architecturally u rally impossible two story that has for years graced the principal corner in the old home town its crumbling and discolored walls have for us a meaning deeper and moie tender than a palace of the finest marble to the eyl eye ot of the stranger our little churches have nothing ot of the inspiring but to the folks ot of the old home town their spires tor for many years have pointed out a higher and better way the old school house with its straight and sober lines Is vividly suggestive to our eyes of the influence that our youth and piloted our steps in manhood to the sophisticated stranger it brings but a pass ng smile but lie he does not know the ire ife chapters ot of the old home town to the passing visitors its people may seem strange but to us they arc friends and neighbors we have seen them tried through the year with faults from time to time the are still the best people in the world the people of the old home town its life is their life and only the ignorant can censure we love the old home town because we know it wt WE are not unsophisticated the idle opinion to the th contrary we know the world and have tested its joys and sorrows we are not strong for pretense in the old home town we live our own life in our own way and because we know the old home town and its people we wish to be there we know it its 9 romances its joys its and we know that thai when the years have rolled by and we reach the end of the chapter that it A is in the old home town that we shall be kindly remembered rem embere shall bo be held in kindly remembrance remembran ct and have better things said ot of u ui than we deserve and it will be because we have been lu in and of 0 the olo etc home town its life has been out oui life we are willing to 10 see al all t the e world but know k now that no place c can be in our affections what the 0 old home town Is ex |