The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-21
DEFY FATHER Time
Passing Years Need Not Brine
uselessness.
California Writer Arises III Wrat, 70
osoy That seventy.Two Should
Be Considered 4 "Rips
!. Old Age"

SSSu s"os SeANaAu uldu uptueU 90
and-So died at the ripe old age Or
seyenty-tWO."
Commenting on this the Los Angeles
Times says that seventy-two is not a
ripe old age and adds: Z
A ripe old age is an age when the
person who has attained It il ready for
old Father Time to come along and
pluck him from the tree Of life. II you
Will take bird's-eye view Of the &C.
tivities Of the world at the present
hour. or even IL you will look about
you In your own community. you will
See that men and women Of seventy
two are among the foremost hustlers
everywhere.
Active heads sof great nations, big
business men In the biggest businesses,
leaders and ge-getters Of, all .descrip-
tons in every direction you look have
passed the seyenty-two mark and are
still going strong. a."
Why, q man should be about at his
best ut the age Of seventy-two. And
1t is at that age that woman should
really begin to enjoy life in high
heeIed shoes, short skirts and hat
with roses all over it.
Cato did not begin the study of
Greek until he was eighty years Of age,
and it was ut the same age that Plu.
tarch began the study of Latin.
Hobbies, the English philosopher, pub.
lisird his best book when he was eigh-
ety-seven, and Chevreul. forever immor.
tai scientific research. was busy as
bee at his work in his one hundred
and second year: X
One Of the most active lawyers Of
theNLos Angelesscounty bar is past his
ninetieth year, and we know of anoth.
or Los Angeles man who has just BEEN
appointed cashier of new bank at the
age of seventy-four. .
In short, the cold fact is that seven
ty.tWo is very far indeed from being
Ia ripe old age"
On the other hand, of course, a man
can let himself be old at most any
age. There are lots of men. who are
old at thirty, but it is state Of mind
with them and not physical condi-
ton, even though they may not be in
good health. d ...'. = =,
AS to women, we very we'll know
that 1t was the fashion for them<to be
old and fear ruffled caps at forty. But
that isn't the case now, by any Apeaps.
Think Of Lillian Russell, Sara Bern.
hardt and Schumann- Heink, merely to
mention some of the more prominent
wof6en of our time.
We would so so far as to say that
age is a question of what way we look
at 1t. That "a man is as old as he
feels and woman as old as she looks"
IS. indeed. very good saying. A man
Is q fool not to feel all right, and
Xnan may DE trusted never to- ..'look''
ohif she IS the woman she ought to
be,
It is great Idea for maa vbe
Is anywhere between fifty and seventy
to mentally start all over again as
Though he had set out like boy, upon
the great adventure Of life. -
Instead Of spending his time then in
vain regrets, let him resolve to attain
all hat he has missed. Let him, above
all hings else, renew his enthusiasm.
Let him 60 to the circus again and buy
peanuts for the elephant; let him 20,
starl, into an old swimming hole
wherever he hears band let him fol-
low y till he has lost the way home.
1t hall, be just as we think about
1t. We are to remember that we shall
live oily once on this earth, and that
we VII be q long time dead.