The Washington times., 1919-08-17


what remains here worth while to represent the life ended?
Sending in his picture Mr. McCsy writes the margin
the following sentences that will stimulate thought among
readers BE marks these sentences, Suggestions Of
Mcosys"
The Jumping off Place
Quitting Time
& Fen . @ 5.:S gs # h't " t1's y: sai1r sa Of time
re SSy ar:S aaS' S infants GS S'fGi think H%E t.
he 5SsIc-:ssd middle sSa' aF sa4E sometimes: "aas a'-
TRs Virtnous sT refuse to think of it.
j. %ssHehoIy it, i, b.yond.a..th
We Dc thinA Of our end-we do not want tO-yet IL we
ad think Of as do Of any other we are attaining
LIFE IS JOB bold
The only sure reward $ peaceful death.
S. othsls afraid Of losing their job.
Som: ioss their jos By I .oedeHt@Ssr. by e.r.n...
some chuck up their JOB by SUicDE-sndnE the whole
Life !. JOBS the pay is PEACEFUL END.
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McCay's picture will make men think even more
earnestly than his written suggestions. We go along
through life constantly drawing to this jumping Of
place. but do not realize it.
Just surely the in the condemned cell must
keep his appointment with the electrician the hsngmau
just certainly must we when the time comes go over
the brink and this earth know no more.
But fortunately do not realize it. The young feel
that life win last forever and the old plan for next year and
the year after We very wisely wound up that
energy into the work that have to do mes path
Little Of 1t is wasted in worrying about that which cannot
be helped
Men sometimes look on death humorously or pretend
that they do They look it with fear and drive it from
their minds if they The wise learn look upon it
normally, look forward to sleep in the evening.
You know how children dread bedtime. They cry
when they go bed for sleep ends life for that day
They seize every pretext for staying up little longer
So it is with grownup children They know that since
the beginning of time all things that live have died But
they struggle against bedtime"
And the most earnest worrying that they do is worry
ing about the fact that they must die whereas it ought to
be worrying about the very little good that they able
to accomplish while they live
Mems views on death are recorded in marble on their
tombstones collection Of eptaphS has been made By
= ". Unger, who knows how men strive to take death
hghty-especally when death calls for others.
Take as samples Of grim wit the following:
S From Colorado:
He den. his damnest Angels I SSi eoa do no ~
= The fouopiug is in the Metropolis, Glasgow:
But vEsfsabouts ! cannot tell
From Lambeth chuchyara on William Wilson, a quqresoms
Who will trouble yOu, trouble yOu
Here is a serious note in the eptaph that spaniard
wrote for himself This man, living Nciousy in his youth
net funeral procession his way home from debauch
he asked who dead imagined that he heard his own
name went to look at the corpse thought that he saw his
face he probably drunk, but drunk sober ha
changed from that moment he devoted his life and
fortune good works and left all his money fifty thousand
pounds year, to establish home for old men. On his
tomb you read:
Here the bones and ashes Of the wiesd
O'H "Fuf5 b,.s SI"a51 ISS1. Ri''"''l0'
Of those that write their epitaphs many vy to make