Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-08-19
Life at Two score.

2 HOW real llte becomes TO uI as we grow
older. How terribly in, earnest We get
Things that used to seem of immense con
eqneuce a twenty, have sun III hold OF
us, to be sure at forty We no Iiolger spend
hours Of ANXIOUS thought Ill deciding Oh
the colors of neck.ties, or the Comparative
me i.s of wais, coa,s. We are done long
ago WITH -''
Signing and grooming of midnight strains
Uuder Bonoybers window pane 4,
we are not exel cised in mind bout sleigh
'ides aud duncing pa ties, But life has
become full If graver cares, Bvnny Leli
is transformed into a subeT mlLion ,noS..
and there at bre4 kfLst, dDner, and upper to.
be PROVIDED for her aud her children-leul
to be paid, clothes TO be bough, ana when,
all these caily wants are supplied other
c res lie in wat for The man Of rurly.-
The rainy day-rype Of old age. and sick.
ness, aud failing po~ers-is 10 provide
for. The children arc 10 be slarlcd, in
tire NO. Id. Some sharp pain, perhaps.
gives warning Of hidden disease, lurking
round the citadel Of lie, au umbusbed
toe, ready TO seiz, The S rong mus bou>e
at the first unguarded moment, Sad
thoughts plough furows in the soher,
middle aged face. VIII this ,Sp culatiop
turn ou. we'll? What if those stocks have
! fallen twenty per cent, never 10 cone up
again? What if labor should be 50 llep,y
1 Tia. wages go dowu?o The simple mean,
of maintaining respectable txisteuce are
NOT follLcrmrg without weary toll and
anxious thought.
Then, too, from this sober stand point of
middle age. one has range of visiJil quite
ut known 10 youth. AT twenty the Life
strel ching out before one seems almost iu.
terminabe--a space in which will be room
tor every kind of ven ure aud success -
Tomorrow, we say. shall be as this day,
aud much more ,ubuUdant, But double
The years, and lbe coming time looks
short. Wha' ever fruil grows on the
boughs OF our tree Of life we must gather
quickly or not at all We indulge ID TO
more visions of impossible blissesg We
know now that We shall never 6nd The ror's
egg, or the golden waler., No fairy vii
give us coat Wi b money in the pockets
as enexhaustable as the oil in the window 5
cruise. Oar anticipations ale more moder.
ate Yet We think none the less eagerly
of the good that still remains for as Our
impAtiehce burus in secret with fi4Icer
name than of old. Now or ueger, we say
10 ourselves as we think Of the great prizes
of life for which VIC still wait We begin
tolwork earnestly while The day lasts, for
we, already see in the, gray distance the
shadow OF the coming night a-V ..cri
! 1t is time TO study the aft OF growing
old ig acefully, Why should We forget
;hat, we sSeue young opee2 Why look
cross at the dancers bec1use our own steps
are no longer light upon the doorf We
are, fortana,e- il children are growing np
at our Preside. Brave boys aud merry
girls will link as with that youth which
has slipped awsy from US. We live our
lives over again in lhem--share their oDxj.
cites aud triumph in their dccesses-and
ealm pleasures Of forty are not 4uite put
Ito shame by the gay eagerDess of twenty.
1t has been judicalIy decided that pas,
ssngcrs alighting from cars have the right
of way, aud those who wish to get Into
the cars must FIRST give the o0tcomers
! rea soma BILE time 10 leave the cars or