Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-27
DEFY FATHER Time
Passing Years Need Mot Bring
Uselessness.
California Writer Arises In Wrath to
Deny That seyenty.Two Should
Be Considered a ripe
Old Age"

A newspaper Item, few days ago.
stated that certain man named So
and-So died ''at the ripe old age Of
seventy-two."
Commenting on this the Los Angeles
Times says that seventy-two Is not
ripe old age and adds:
A ripe old age is an age when the
person who has attained 1t Is ready for
old Father Time to come along and
pluck him from the tree Of life. If you
will take blrd's-eye view Of the ac-
uvities Of the world at the present
hour, or even II 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 Of great nations, big
business men In the biggest businesses.
leaders and go-getters Of all descrip-
tons In every direction you look have
passed the seyenty-two mark and are
still going strong.
Why, man should be about at his
best at the age Of seventy-two. And
II is at that age that woman should
really begin to enjoy life In high
heeled shoes. short skirts and a hat
with roses all over IL.
Cato did not begin the study of
Greek until he was eighty years of age,
and II was at the same age that Plu-
tarch began the study Of Latin.
Hobbies, the English philosopher. pub
lished his best book when he was eigh-
ty-seven, and Chevreul. forever lmmor.
tai In scientific research, was busy as
! bee at his work In his one hundred
and second year.
One of the most active lawyers of
the Los Angeles county bar is past his
ninetleth year, and we know OF anoth.
er 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
"a ripe old age"
On the other hand. of course man
can let himself be old at most any
age. There are lots of men who are
old at thirty, but II is state of mind
with them and not a physical condi
ton. even though they may not be II
good health.
AS to women, we very well know
that II was the fashion for them to b,
old and fear rufIled caps at forty. Blu
that isn't the case now. by any means
Think of Lillian Russell, Sara Bern
hardt and Schumann-Heink, merely I,
mention some of the more prominen
women of our time.
We would 90 so far as to say tina
age Is question of what way we lool
at II. That "a man is as old as h,
feels and a woman as old as she looks.
is, indeed, a very good saying. A MAJ
is fool not to feel all right, and ,
woman may be trusted never to 'look'
old If she is the woman she ought t,
be.
II is great idea for a man when h,
Is anywhere between fifty and sevent,
to mentally start all over again a
though he had set out, like boy. upol
the great adventure of life.
Instead of spending his time then il
vain regrets, let him resolve to attail
all that he has missed. Let him, abov,
all things else. renew his enthusiasm
Let him go to the circus again and bu.
peanuts for the elephant; let him 60
stark, into an old swimming hole
whenever he hears band let him fol
low It till he has lost the way home
1t shall be just MS we think abou
II. We are to remember that we shal
live only once on this earth, and tina
we will be long time dead.