The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-05-14
PRESS AND COMMENT.

Newspaper readers were startled
| the other day to note that there are
living, aged ITO and 120 years, res
pectively, on the island of St. Helena
| who saw Napoleon alive. This was
| brought out on the occasion Of the
one hGndredth anniversary Of Napoi-
| cons death. But these three, dear
reader,ai you have not already been
| informed on the subject, are Two
| turtles and one parrot. The turtles
| are ITO years old and the parrot l20
years old. The turtles crawl around;
| the parrot says "Bonaporte. But
they, too, must pass away ike all
| things, though it might seem they
might live on ad infinitum since they
have already seemingly lived a life
everlastingly-hke.
And from Chicago comes this:
| Act like a cat if you want to live
100 years." Want to live to be 100
vearrs old? Then act like cat. This
is.the4tip given by DR.. John Dill, city
health commissioner. "Iabby has
more endurance than any other ami
mal'' he says, because she is the
most rythmical animal In the world.
We need more rythm. Jazz is men,
ace. If the cat tried to toddle 1t
wouldn't last half as long. The cats
muscle are not tense" If we must
give up our jazzing in order to be
more rhythmic, then let US do SO vol
unfairly We were forced to give up
our jag, and how it did come hard!
But talking about cats and rythm,
ever hear them on the back yard
fence just after midnight when the
moon is sinking in the West? Keep
your answer; we already have it.
Napoleon did not live so extraor-
dinarily long a time, but he did 1--we
MUCH before he met his defeat. Iff
most lives where all is not ser
enc but rather of aggressiveness he
or she must sooner or later meet
their Waterloo. The turtles and par
rot have lived in years, but this mat
ters not 1t matters to YOU, how
ever, how MUCH YOU live; how
much you accomplish each day IN
your daily life, though your whole
life be short, is what concerns most.
This might be applied to the boy, the
girl, the man, the woman.
1t is always interesting to speak of
money, more so of other peoples
money, strange as this may appear.
It is nevertheless a fact. Big figures
preceded by the S signus In these
times and since the war do not star
tle We accept them as common
place. 1t is doubtful if the average
reader grasps the full meaning of a
million, yet we speak and write IN
the millions just as nonchanlantly as
if these were so many grains OF sand
and even at this we do not construe
the number even though it be SO
many particles of dust.
Former Senator w. Murray Crane,
of Dalton, Mass, who died October
End, 1920, left personal estate OF
S8,8OO,000. This was disclosed IN an
appraisal made in New York few
days since by the deputy state com
ptroller. His holdings in New York
included half a million dollars IN
Liberty bonds Legacies varying
from $4,000 to $4,000 were be-
oueathed to sixteen Institutions in
Massachusetts, and~New York.
Another woman has been honored,
adding to the long list of women who
have been recognized and deserved
ly rewarded. Woman, thy name is.
imperishable The cross Of the
French Legion of Honor was presen-
ted to Mary Garden, general direc-
tor of the Chicago Opera Company,
at luncheon given in her honor on
Nav 4th, by the Chicago Association
Of Commerce. The luncheon opened
the campaign to Democratic opera
by transferring the sponsorship from
the social register to the telephone
book" And may this campaign be
successful.