The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-07-27

Take your fun while you may
youll never be young but once" Is 4
popular fallacy. II presupposes two
things - that the young. because Of
youth. must have fun and that as soon
as II IL passed the capacity for enjoy
Ing IL Is over.
Some never grow old, and some are
never young. Age lies in the indlyidu-
al and Ia not a question OF dates.
Because n person ceases TO be able 10
giggle at every remark. TO bubble over
with gleefulness at the slightest prov
ocatlon, IL no criterion that real mlrth-
fulness has fed The delicate sense Of
humor that may take the place OF this
snowy buoyancy is far more to be
priced
A sense OF humor Is a potent factor
in keeping life sweet TO the end. A
green and jolly old age is as jolly as
a gay youth.
A sense OF humor can be cultivated,
and II should be as asslduousiy as for
bearance, Kindness or any OF the car
dinal virtues.
With the slipping away OF youth de-
spalr asserts itself only when II IL
thought JOY and mirth must hee also
Are we SURF that youth Is so posi-.
lively happy as IL Is supposed to bel Is
there not a restlessness, an uncertain
~, In the steps OF n young girl that
causes anxiety 10 be mingled with ev-
cry mover She is full OF theories. IL
imbued with ideals, but how TO obtain
the desired ends is a mooted question.
She can never be as securely happy as
is the married woman. or unmarried.
who has. as II were, found her feet
surely and knows how 10 get what she
wants. or. at least, knows what she
wants TO get. There is a restless look
ing forward for pleasures each day, an
unhappy killing OF time before some
promised Joy arrives In the young that
ali who have passed II can painfully
remember
Girls are 80 imbued by the thought
less, with the idea that all Joy ceases
with youth, that they have a feeling OF
commiserntlon for those who have bid
farewell 10 this ephemeral period Lit.
tie do they realize how the study OF all
life, the enlarged power TO feel. TO see.
to bear. TO live. to enjoy. is the price
less gift OF every added year.
There is something pitiful In watch
Ing the nervous grasp at Joy In youth.
We see constantly young girls literally
afraid TO loosen their hold on one day
or one pleasure TO fulfil an act OF sim
pie duty.
There is not unfamiliar story OF
young girl In n ballroom who was stop
ped as she walked about the floor on
the arm OF one OF her partners 10y ..!i
old family friend, who inquired. with
interest. for her mother.
MY dear, I'm glad | saw you" he
repeated "How's your mothcrY"
No reply. She only clung TO the arm
on which she leaned and was hasten
ing by when the old gentleman. seeing
her fear lest her escort should slip
away laid his hand on the young
mans coat collar.
MY dear I'll hold him." he cried
twinkling his eye wlckedly "How's
your motherf"
He was not n very nice old gentle
man. perhaps. but that he got n full
share OF Fun out OF life none could
doubt and the attitude OF the young
girl, holding fast 20 her prize lest he
should escape. Is exactly the attitude
Of youth that looks 20 the early days
for all It's share OF 10y.
was I'm a group Of young uhmar-
ried women. some nearing thirty. 9TH
ers who had just overstcpped this crit.
lcal date They were expressing I'm
graphic language their sensltveness
about their age.
have taken some pains 10 hunt up
statistics about the attractions and ac.
oomplishments OF women who were
past this age which | commend 10
their peiusal. In the first place novel.
lists are taking women between thirty
and forty for their heroines. IL is the
woman who daros 20 have thoughts
and has cultivated herself to the point
Of expressing them who commands
friends and lovers who are worth
while.
Helen OF Troy was over forty when
she perpetrntcd the most famous elope- !
ment on record. aud as the Siege OF |
Troy lasted twenty years she could not |
have been very Juvenile when the IN |
fortune Of Paris restored her 20 her !
husband, who It is said. received her
with love aud gratitude.
Cleopatra was past thirty when An
tony fell under her spell and her fas.
cinations Cor him had not lessened |
when she d'ed ten years later.
Pericles welded Aspasia at the age |
Of thirty'si aud she welded undls- |
puted influence over men Tor thirty |
years afterward.
Liyia was thirty-three when she won |
the love OF Augustus, over whom she |
maintained her ascendency TO the last [,
Louis XIV. welded Nine. Maintenon
when she was forty-three years OF age.
Ninon, celebrated beauty aud wit
OF her day la France, captivated the