Show 1 i iI I T 11 I I Is the Century Mark lark Ii Your Goal Foal I r f Copyright 1913 1915 by The s Co Col ColIT ColT 1 I for tor not to toI and normal us natural T T 1 is IA IT I reflect too much upon death llen tho Lv Even en 1 older If tr w we arc aro In as We wo grow gro health we IG T think but fitfully and t. t Something that subject va vaguely upon within u us impels Impell us to dismiss s the thought of death a as soon as possible Provision beyond our comprehension for the tle re reluctance no doubt douht was mado view the tho thought of or with which we death Tho The intent U Is that shall shaU do nil that we 0 can to unroll wn we our 13 full scroll o of years an and keep th the thought of ot death in firm abc anco friends die we suffer Buffer from When our But wo we are arc prompted to dep depression on out of or ou our OUI minds put their passing pa It If departed friends wc were re or of about our and ot Of rugged haIth OUr own ag ago b briet f attar after sees clIe or dying they thoy should not not that think th wo l h to e sigh longer tenancy ot of their have had a bright and engaging world places In a But the tho thought of ot our vanishing so 80 as 38 they tho Is unimaginable Or it It IK is imaginable wo e push it Into r. r of tine the background ot of the mind re retools remote note Hard l luck ck for tor them poor chaps chapel But that can or will happen I nothing to US Wo We like are aro going rl right ht ah ahead ad and round out our days B By tho the thoVa Va way n we e emust must write that up hurry-up letter Jetter about 1 that shipment And so we delayed no swim of at- at afI I the our tur manse J Into ra h hack ck fairs fain And Immo Immediately the thought though of ot death is banished which banished is precisely precisely pre pre- I S H-S It should be he Does our mental attitude toward to mo Uto and death loath havo have any bearing upon our ou length th of years This flu question can be bo answered variously Twenty years ago ngo ngoI I knew In Maryland a n rugged old pine pineo- knot of ot a farmer 75 16 years yean old Hi His tooth w wore were re bad His daughters urged him to have havo them thom atten attended ed to h by a R dentist Ho Ito refused It 11 be foolishness he said sad to them for Cor me to have ha mv my old snags fixed wi-H wi when n Im I'm getting rend ready to die dieT lIe Ho wasn't gloomy gloom about It but he figured that hl his race was about runA run A month ago aKo I saw naw an this old farmer again Although ho he now has no teeth him away awny a hi himans himan's red d at aJl all I 1 saw put And burK- burK mans man's breakfast of s sausage wheat cakes At 95 ho easily OL looks good for tor Twenty ty years a ago go also abo I saw aw a a. lad lady annual trip to 76 75 years earll old off art on her Europe She was wan a n. ver very alert and ana minded keen and lo pl R uro old lady Indy Her Id idea R. R emphatically was that sho she would live to be bo a 1 hundred at l 1 least tIvo t t- she nho saido salt said Ivo Ive never or boon boen to Egypt pt to o me on this day I 1 stay sta away from there purposely I know that Egypt would make mo me think about death and the de dead d and I am nm too young to era i re- re et upon such lIuch dt disquieting mt matters Out But Butet some ome cia day a I shad ah ahall go to Egypt Egypt- I pei perhaps haps twenty years car from noI now non I saw this old lady lad last hist week She Sho remains alert and mind keen 1 and nd pleasure-loving pleasure at 95 She says sa s now that she never is going to Egypt Despite Despite Despite De De- spite mortality figures I 1 consider that it would be an excellent money even-money wager T that she will round out her hundred hundred hun hun- dred years The farmer looked for tor death it t any time and the tho old lady never nover would entertain entertain en en- ln the tho thought of or It Both are still alive and quite comfortable Sono So Sono no possible conclusion Is to be bo drawn as to Just juet how their respective mental attitudes toward the matter of or death ath have ha affected them through the years rears ears Of the two ti however howe there tan Isn Isn't t the tho least doubt that the old aid old lady Jady has had the more fun j |