The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-06
Old Age a Beauty.

One of the most lovely pictures
that nature presents in this beautiful
green, and never-fading world Of ours
is that Of lettering old age.
No human being is loved more today
than the man or woman who has
already lived their three score
years, then love comes to our hearts
in waves indispensable when we know
they have finished their ''three score -
and have started out upon their
"ten.n
When we look upon the father OF
grandfather whichever it may be,
whose head has been SO fiercely bitten
by the many heavy frosts OF seventy
odd cold and severe winters, we feel
and realize that time for him here on
earth cannot be anything else but
short, and should we fail to comfort
them, not only in the necessary means
Of everyday life, but by associating
with nursing them in their blessings
and child-like ways. If we fail to do
this, most assuredly we neglect q
duty, one toward ourselves, toward
the grandparent, and above all, q duty
toward the Divine One, who for some
great purpose, and That we will never
be able to understand, permits them
to become such beauty.
This country is wonderfully blessed
with such as above mentioned, here
and there the country is dotted by a
homely cottage, wherein dwell man
and wife, man and wife in the truest
sense of the word, old, feeble and
gray, and on looking into their faces
you car. readily point out careworn
marks, marks Of many sleepless
nights. We feel for them, though
we fail to reach them. No, our
heartfelt sympathy will not reach
them until more than q half century
has passed.
What happy time it should be
when mother and son, or mother and
daughter have exchanged places care
taking! But be it sorrowfully said
it is not always just the case.
We should love the grandmothers,
if nothing more than being so loyal
and true to the faithful veterans who
composed the strong and courageous
army Of the south in the year 1861.
Indeed they desire far more praise
than will ever be given them. If q
person is truly sincere in doing 8
wrong thing, even that is much better
than doing nothing. They toiled
from early dawn till dewy eve with a
nevel-tiring hand and an ever willing
mind. Only few more years, then
we will be forever deprived Of the
happy privilege of meeting and con-
versing with heroic veterans and
their beloved wives here on earth.
They are old and think gray
thoughts perhaps. for they are gray.
At times we see them with eyes cast
doWnWard thinking no doubt
Gone the comrades Of my bivouac,
some in fight against the foe.
Some thro age and slow disease,
gone as all on earth will 60.
Some with whom for forty years
my life in golden sequence ran,
She with all the charms Of woman,
she with all the breath Of man.
Long and lonesome are the hours they
reflect upon the passed, and how
they long to meet again.
Forsthem to meet and talk with
one another, it seems that they readily
ascend to the heights Of human happi-
ness we know, too, il is q happy
meeting. They love each other.
Why? Because they have bad just
cause. Let rs ever love and cherish
with tender hearts and the most affec-
tion che grandparents, most especially
the grandmother, who has toiled day
after day with tired feet but willing
hands In rearing her brood.
Surely il behooves % 70 pay homage
and alteration % tho aged, The worn
out, the gray hairs o. this country /.
We sec them now fast ebbing Away,