The Washington herald., 1918-06-26

l used to worry about growing old;
not because / feared age or wrinkles,
but because 1 always remembered
what Annie said to me once:
Miss Margaret, do you ever think
OF the time when you will be ola"
looked at her in CONSERVATION. for
I was then at the age when TO be
thirty meant to be old enough to die.
You know. sometimes / think, Miss
Margaret" she continued. that the
ira gedy of years is that a mans eyes
and a woman's heart never grow old.
No matter how many wrinkles
there are about masculine eyes. or
how dim they look TO anyone, they
always are young inside and see only
youth. The man may be 60 to all in
tents and purposes, but his eyes are
as blind to anything over the mating
age as they were at y.
And a woman, too. grows old and
fat or thin and wrinkled. but her
heart still asks for the romance G:
youth and her disa appointment always
comes to her afresh when she looks
into the dim eyes OF aging men only
10 see them light up at the sight or
some dainty miss of %.
Her heart is imploring the COM
fort Of another young heart. and his
young eyes are looking only for
youthful faces.
You see. Miss Margaret. because a
woman's heart and a mans eyes
never grow old, consequently they
take the ageirg bodies belonging to
them into some queer places" When
1 feel old my still young heart seeks
out your manuscript. dear Dick.
Il wish, dear Margie. that you will
not Try TO read what ! have written
TO you in this manuscript all at one
sitting" / read yesterday. Il am
selfish enough to hope that you will
come TO it when all the world-yes.
even Richard WaVerly III-has failed
TO satisfy you.
when you want again to feel me
near you. l shall always be near you
J too, Margie, as you read this manu-
script. if it is possible for me to be
there"
What was it. little book, that IA
NOUS psychologist said TO me the
other day when We were discussing
the hope of life everlasting"
Hope" he said. holds both de-
sire and expectation. You can de-
sire things you do not expect and
! expect things you do not desire. but
when you hope for things you both
desire and expect them"
Dick knew me so well that he
knew that would do just the very
! thing he hoped l would in regard
to his manuscript.
Sometimes, little book. almost
think that when l have finished
Dicks manuscript and said my say
to you about it. will not write any
more on your white pages.
Which clever historian was Il
that said something to the effect
that contentcd countries. like happy
women. have no histories? l eX'
pect that quotation is not literal
but YOU know, little book, l an
like the old Scotch woman on whom
the dominic called early one Mon
day morning. He found her out OF
the green where she had spread th'
| linen that she had just woven e
bleach under the morning sun. Sh'
was delighted to see the minister
and began at once TO tell him how
much good the sermon he hat
preached the day before had dom
her. OF course the clergyman wa
flattered and he Immediately want
ed to know what part of the ser
mon pleased her most. After a lit
tie Questioning he discovered tina
she could repeat nothing Of it; no
even the text.
My good woman" he said. some
what acrimoniously. Il can hardl
conceive how my sermon can be o
any great service to you, when 20
cannot remember a word of it."
The woman went on pourin
water over the long lengths o
linen spread out on the grass