Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1896-08-14

ancy of youth, yet in few years she
is staid matron. Time rolls on,
rolls on, we are young to-day and old
tomorrow; yet not old if We keep our
hearts young. / came here to-day to
address old settlers, but not old men
and women. dislike the term. L
was riding in a street car a few years
ago and as entered a young man
arose and said: ''OId gentleman take
this seat" said: mo sir; l can
stand" l know there is disposition
on the part of many young people to
speak lightly of old age. Now young
girls let me tell you, you have no busi-
ness to let the old grandmother sit in
the corner and ruminate and ruminate
and let her mind wander away into
the past Remember she was once a
girl as you are now She has had her
beau as you have and wandered in the
sweet elysIum of loves flowers. Now
let me tell you that you must keep her
heart fresh; if she will, have her tell of
the "reminiscences OF her early love,
when she would not say yes and could
not say no to your grandfather.
Kate Woods has immortalized this
sentiment in beautiful poem entitled
"Wooing of grandmother Grey"
Pardon me you grandmothers If l
make few quotations from this poem.
She says, addressing her husband,
Jabez:
'One night, laEGsasc5 remember il well,
II was on Christmas eve;
You said you had sioEy to tell,
And thought it make believe.
1--WE ate our apples. popped our com
And talked OF the singing school,
And hardly k-cv 4 wo-1 said,
| .Aad acted .us: lil:o a TOOL.
lyon took from your pocket this little rias.
II was larger then a sight,
! Xo:I t..SI IL on my An ycr you El0y,
/ snail never forge; that night.
''Teil tao old folks went, you andI
Sat there by the open fire,
And wanted TO sorLer laugh ana cry
Wen You pi;casS yopr chair sp aisher.'' 4
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+ Ifyou have bbck that deg S IN Tx.
sentimental don't get off into one COR
ner to read and enjoy it alone, but
read aloud to grandma; she will enjoy
it, you will enjoy it, and her heart will
become fresher and greener by the
remembrance of her early love-
Young men don't let grandpa sit on
the porch leaning on his cane seeming
to be looking away across the farm
but he is not; his minds eye Is turned
inward; cheer him up even with the
relation Of your own love trials, your
own aspirations for the future, the
hopes of your manhood. II, per-
chance, he tells YOU of his own trials,
successes and reverscs in life, listen
patiently and cheer him even by read
ing books which TO you may seem
light. Ills youth will be renewed, and,
when, like Moses, he views the prom
iscd land from Mount Nebo, he will
pass away to a better land, when his
eye Is not dim nor his natural force
ablled," and you viii have the sweet
consciousness of discilaTg.ng duty TO
OIL age that wiil rise up 10 bless you
when your hair shall whit=n in the fu-
tue. Time Is rolling on. rolling on.
but remember the l.ttle brooklet that
ripples down the valley near vour
home IS rs fresh to-day rs when you
wadci barefoot n its sparkling waters
and hathcd ycgr face in Its ripping
waves. Il IS. moving on to-day rs
yesterday, il NIL move on Tomorrow
IS o. yolc, onward. onward it goes. |
vhiriing bubhl.ny and sparkling flesh
CT and iTcshcr each day as It were
gliding down the grassy del where the
red deer wandered in our childhood
days and where we IN childhood loved F.;
70 play. Lie. wha<a wonderful ching. !
life ever growing Old, yetcver young;
ever dying yet ever being born IN
diriduals are iost in The genera! whole, ,
one by one we pass away but 'stlil the /
world rolls or let what viii be happen
ing to ihe individuals who occupy l."
The sun rises and sets; seed time and !
harvest time come and 20: generations