The true northerner., 1900-06-27
COMMENCEMENT WEEK.
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could not keep YOU from running for
vice-president; that you were possessed
of the ability of Gladstone, a Bismark
Caesar, Bryan, a Mark Hanna, all
wrapped into one and all the earth knew
you and knew that you knew all those
things: What would you do with it?
Or suppose, instead of money, or
strength, or wisdom, that YOU had still
another equally as potent quality for
controlling the destiny of other lives
And here address myself more partic-
ularly to the female brethren of the
audience. Suppose you were Just as
pretty as any woman ever wanted to be:
and you know there never lived woman
that did not at some time ia her life
want TO be pretty, since the day when
Eve first caught sight of her face in the
pools of Paradise. Sometimes they say
they don't care that is generally after
it is of no use. / have heard some women
complain because men look at them.
But then again, have heard other wo-
men complain because men did not look
at them, Suppose that
Your brow was like tbs snow drift,
Your neck was like the swan,
Your face it was the fairest
That ere the sun shown on;
Your eyes were like the stars at night,
and your teeth like pearls, and your lips
like rubies, and on your cheek there
hung a blush like the constant dawn,
and your motion was poetry and your
form breathing statue, and over all this
physical beauty, over all this loveliness
of feature and of form you had that ad-
ded female grace, that feminine egotism
that would make all men love you and
all women hate you: What would you
do with it?
Let us define youth, if possible. We
might say it is a period of life occurring
between the ages of II and 80, and vet
you cannot define life by the arithmetic
and you cannot set metes and bounds to
any living period by the almanac AS
some one has said, life is not measured
by the ticks OF the pendulum, but by the
heart throbs. But some men are born
young and they stay young; when time
heads and left it's burrows there, and
stamped his crows foot seals upon their
temples and dashed his silvered breath
in their whiskers, they are still young.
God bless them Then there are some
men that are born old. l have seen old
babies-iust sit in their chairs at the
tables and stick their thumbs into their
mouths with all the dignity of a Judge.
] have not defined youth. We might
say youth is the time of life when a man
begins to feel kind of fuzzy around the
roots of the ears, and at that time the
lady is too short for long dresses and too
long for short dresses, and she under
stands how to fold up her limbs properly
when she sits down. That is not very
good definition. Perhaps we had better
say, youth is that period of life occur
ring somewhere between childhood and
manhood, and that is very satisfactory. 1t
sounds satisfactory to me, because it is
very indefinite, and when you have been
as long as have and asked to
give definition that you do not under
stand yourself, IL you do not get it right
you can never prove it nor be tried for
heresy.
DO you know these people we call
young people settle all the great ques-
lions of life, and all the real living
questions of this time and fall time are
IN their tender handsS We are accus-
toned to look on these people as a sort |
'f fifth wheel in the body polite, and |
IS il they did not amount to much.