The evening world., 1913-10-28

Quaver in the voice that answered
them.
~ am glad Z am alive" he stated,
simply. ~ think have always
been glad, though nothing very ire
msndous has ever happened to me.
I've always worked. I married
when was twenty-five, and my
wife and I didn't have . cent be.
tween ~. Dut We managed to
raise SIX children, and We had
Sixty-sight wedding Anniversaries
together. Ny children have been
good to me, and I've had no reason
to complain since my wife died.
IT'S . good world"
looked at him, wondering. For to
me old age seems infinitely more dread
full than death. To end. swiftly, while
one Is still master of the days that
WERE" contains nothing for tears. But
how can one reconcile ones self to
slow corrosion?
I asked him. lie smiled and shook his
head.
WHEN YOU ARE A HUNDRED
you HAVE NO BITTERNESS.
Growing old Is something as natural
something that comes to you without
your realizing 1t. There is never any
special day, any special year. when you
stop and say to yourself. Now am old
At least. you never say II before you
get to be a hundred. And then you
have no bitterness.
The great thing is TO live a healthy.
natural life. l don't believe In going
In for all these fads and fancies OF
diet. I've always had my three square
meals day and eaten the things |
liked. never could see that good,
plain American food would hurt any,
body. OF course. you can carry every
thing to extremes. A person should eat
to live. not live to eat But / think
that the only important rule OF diet is
to satisfy the appetite with simple.
home-cooked food.
~ believe that the man who n
husband ana father 10 apt to live
longer than the bachelor. A. any
rate. he lives happier. Marriage
brings responsibility, but what OF
~ No one should be Afraid OF life.
a man may say he can't afford to
marry. All the capital I had was
health and . willingness to work.
Everyone should marry, and marry
without waiting TOO long. There
will be more good days than bad
ones"
Which Is only q homelier way OF put
ting the robust philosophy of the great
es. poem. on cid age ever w-.;;cn. DON'T
you remember
BE our Joys three pafn paint
Strive. and hold cheap the strain:
Learn nor account the yang, dare. never grudae
the throsf
| "Work is good for a man." continued
Mr.. DE Long Men used to work much
harder than they do now. ! was brought
up In the country Oh a farm. and we
worked from daylight to dark. There
was no talk then of the hours of the
laborlng day. left the farm when
was fifteen, but I'd had plenty OF good
stiff manual labor by that time And
even after ! came to New York and
cent to work In store. had to begin m,
day at o'clock In the morning and work
TIL the work was done. whatever the
clock said. ! think. II were to pick
out one single change in the last hun
dred years. as the most important. I'd
select the change In the labor question
It's not merely question of shorter
hours. but Of all this wonderful ma.
chinery which saves 50 much time and
muscle strain.
THE new way is much better than
the old. For though work Is good fol-
a man. he ought not to overwork. SleeI
Is necessary. and then I have always
believed In taking pleasure as one goe,
along. l used to dance when | wa,
younger. and. busy as we were, my
wife and ! were never withou, Harmless:
recreation. That's one reason I beliey.
In smoking. It's an inexpensive. com
Portable form Of enjoyment. and l know
II never hurt me any.
CHILDREN HELP YOU TO LlvI
j. LONG AND DIE YOUNG.
Having young people around 10 I
! good thing for man who wants t,
live long and then die young. BOYS ant
girls keep him from getting crabbe,
and set In his ways. They keep him In
I<>rsat>A In vrhat'a 1oin1 m roi,nA hlr