GROWING OLD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 3

GROWING OLD.

. The best way,, of growing old ;is ,io ; keep young. By keeping young )ve 'mean' retaining a close interest in the world, arid its . doings; and refusing-to' imitate tho'morpsoness and melancholy of the twonties.. If you want to see. a genuine'specimen of youth—that! is, a, specimen of gonuine youth—you must go, riot among old boys and girls so ; oc-cupied-in getting, on in life that .they have, 1 no tinio to live, but among young. fifties and sixties who!realise that, having, done, their utmost to get farther, they may. rest content with the place to which they hayp. attained and extract, from-.it- all, th?'.pleasure it is capable 'of. yielding. ; Tho young, ; in ,tho twentieth -.century, aro Very worn;and experienced; .It is'only the'' old .wh'o;';dar° ..he. young andtry«to forgot experiericqr-the Unpleasant part of experience. . The ,way to grow; old is to pretend to the amiable failings of youth. If life is. good for anything, •it' is ' to teach -a man wisdom;' and-'to £ see sixty wilfully .descending to tho. iriferipr. level . of .^thirty. is an obnoxious spectaclo : to young an 1 :old alike. .Years are a; crown 'of honour, a title: to'; respect, an assurance of, good .sense. At least .they should: be.. .When; they faro not, • ,tho'fault lies intheir possessor,; who,".as often; asriot,;: has' made'. riiistako~pf'. trying -to copy . the follies of sham ..youth,, instead . of. fixing.his iritorit,on,the ,virtues of in . its sublimity,-; is compounded , of. ;age and. youth in just proportions.,; The, most 'charming' wonian is > she . who "has grown old' intelligently.': Tho;.nian! most entertaining: .to, talk to is he who, h'as"so'widened and' dcoperied his interests; as torhayb.;-aohicyed' : .t6leranco. at sixty.—"Pall.Mall Gazette." '.