The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-21

ures of an age he has outlived, and ig- nore the advantages of his own time of lie.
 Yet. as the years bring weakness, the mind persistently drifts back to the earlier periods of life, until the aged actually enter phase we not inaptly name "second childhood" from which Heaven forefend mel
 I can still appreciate pair of sparkling blue eyes, and I am not ob- livious to the turn of pretty should CT; although devoutly trust that my interest is now impersonal, and mere ly artistic.
 l can still do my IS holes of golf well under S5 and I think I shot last fall as well as ever in my life; but must admit sadly but not rancorously, that l much prefer my comfortable grandstand scat to mw old position of halfback, and I should not be willing 10 run at top speed for a quarter of a mile. except upon matter of great | moment.
 And so. comfortably situated upon hlN Hii' bi Ahs itiiiltls l'i iit, lilA utdT son, who have spared you so much eld- erly wisdom (more, I fear, because I have hitherto been blissfully unaware of my own seniority than from any conscious motive) let mo. I say. indulge 1 na few customary parental warnings to you at this time I trust that they will not he hackneyed and l know that they will be sincere.
 Some fathers say to their sons upon tho first home leaving" -"Beware of wine and women," I do not.
 If your home life has not taught you the virtues of a temperate. clean life, as I hope. then no words of mine can do 1t, and you must learn, as too many others have, from bitter intimacy with its antithesis.
 As to women. I never avoided them; I sought them out, from the time when a red-cheeked youngster I trndged to school beside a red-cheeked lasse-- asleep these many years in the little village lot where lie so many with whom I fought and played these many years gone by.
 have no advice to offer you on this great subject; it's ethics are not taught by letter If I have any regrets. they are not for your ear nor any mans. And if, of some women have known. I cannot say that I lifted them lp. at least of no woman can it he said that 1 I thrust her downl
 ask of you no more than this and the guidance of your own heart: that in the latter years, when you. too. nas over the barrier, you may not leave behind you shadows on the flower deckeG meadows of your youth.
 You will probably play cards in col lege. most men do I did The gamb- ling instinct in man is primordial. Kept under due bounds, if not useful, 1t is at least comparatively harmless i This is the very best that | or any honest man can say of it. should he glad if you never cared to gamble. but do not ask it. Assuming that VOL will, I do not insult you, and myself equally, by warning you against un- fairness; to suppose you capable O, 0H'dttlS dl Cdlus IS to suppose an i'm possibility. You could not do SD with. out forfeiting the right ever to ente, your home again. But some careless, and insidious practices, not unknovr in my day and class. savor to the m. right mind of cheating, without alvay, incurring it's penalties.
 To play with men whom you know
  cannot afford to lose, and who must either cheat or suffer privation. tc play when you yourself must win vour bet to square yourself: that is when you do not reaonably sec how you arg ging to raise the money to nav nro. viding you lose-this is a gambler.s chance to which no gentleman vii ever expose his fellow players.
 There is nothing heroic about ines. desperate casts of the die: one risks only the other fellows money. These practices I ask and expect vou f, avoid.
 I ask nothing of you in the way of z declared position on religion. You mother may have demanded more o you here-entreated more. | cannot. ask but this; that you will give earn. est. serious consideration tn the fac that we exist on this planet for ; shockingly brief fraction of Eternity