The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-27

n ERllAPS the greatest shock that
any of MS ever get is when We tlrSt
have 1t borne IN upon Us that To
a cold and appraising public We seem
old.
or course, we know that We have had
more birthdays than We like to count.
We realize, when We stop to think OF II,
that We are subject to rheumatic
twIngcS, and that We have come t.
favor our left knees when We walk,
and that we come down steps carefully
one at a time instead OF taking then,
by leaps and bounds, and that we have
to be a little careful about our die.
and have other signs and symptoms that
VIC would call age in another,
But we still feel Young and cherish
the tatuouS belief that we look young.
and~o 1t IS a solar picks blow when
Wc realize that we have not escaped
the common human doom, but have
ourselves passed into the scar and vel.
low leaf
The chief reason that we so dread age
IS not because it brings the end OF life
IN an apprcclablc distance, but because
We do hate to pass INTO the class OF
those who are pensioners upon the good
nature and iorbcarance OF all Will
whom We come IN contact. II is Sc
terrible to think of becoming one Of
| those whose personal charm and inter.
est are gone and who are endured
either from a sense of duty or from
Il desire to graft
For 1t is 0ndcniable that most old
people arc unitlractlvc. They are tire.
some to talk TO, boring to listen to
full OF crochcts and whims and mar.
rowncSs and Slovenly in dress, and SC
it IS ny wonder that VIC Shuddcr as We
see otirScIyc, approaching the era Of
scnlle irowsincss.
That is why when a woman begins
g. perceive crows feet forming abou
her eyes She grabs her pookctbook an
rushcS to a beauty specialist, anC
why when a man begins to find diff,
Guilty IN tying his shoes he takes II,
golf and commences to bant. They ar,
trying to keep young,
Mas, after We are fifty the art o
keeping young IS a lost art, and VI
would do better # we devoted ou'
cncrgic, and thoughts to studying tn,
art ot growing old gracefully.
We talk a great deal about thc iault'
Of the young and urge them to- correc
them, and about the pitfalls into which
youth Is liable to stumble and agains
which We warn it.
But whoever speaks Of the faults o
age OF the dangers into which 1t MAJ
blunder, Yet age has its faults NJ
less than youth, and is just as llabl,
10 fall into evil habits.
We assume that age is a state oi per
lection. hut the truth is that it J., onl,
too often a time OF utter scli-indul
gcnce and ~sellishnesS, and that is VIII,
old people are SO often an aitlictiol
gricvouS to be borne by those who hav'
to live with them. And this is VIII,
those of us who wish TO he loved ano
cherished ior ourselves, and not for tn,
prospective requests in our wills
hould recognize the faults that bcse
age and try TO guard against them.
old people excuse certain %wcakneSSe'
in themselves on the ground OF age
lust a, Youth excuses its tollics in tn,
same IA hion. A boy must sow hi,
Wild oats. saws the drunken roundcr
Old people have a right to their ways
declare the fossils who make MARTYRS
OF their families and block public prog
icsg Neither eNruec eNrlsrS hut Vou,h
at least, admits its fault, while age &C