The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-07

cious, always thinking OF others, al
ways interested in others, always do
ing something for somebody else.
Unless we can grow that way 'twere
better to die young.
A young creature can get along
and seem to enjoy life to the fullest
with never n thought except the one
centered entirely on self and imme-
date surroundings. He seems to
think the fewer people he knows the
bigger he is; the less interest he takes
In his surroundings the more supe-
rior he has proven himself. II he
is rich he builds high fences and
hedges around his house 50 passers-
by can't even gaze at his grounds: he
travels in a private car or yacht to
keep him away from people, and he
belives he is happy. IL he does have
to travel with the general public he
avoids them, stays to himself and
gets satisfaction from 1t.
AS youth begins TO leave he be-
comes ossified because he has lived
with himself so long. No one now
wants to live with him. He grows
old before his time. because a per-
son associating with himself so ex-
clusively is bound to grow uninter-
esting to himself. and when interest
dies the fires burn low.
Unless we have friends seeking us
out to tell us the happenings OF the
day, unless we have thoughts and
plans TO divulge to the friends when
they come, unless in fact we are In
terested in people, all people. and
can give and obtain something from
every one we meet. old age will find
us unprepared and we will find our
selves unsought. unsung and In the
way.
Some OF the most interesting peo-
pie | know or have ever known, are
what we call old people, in the 70's
and SOS. When l analyze what is 50
Interesting about them and why their
company Is so eagerly sought. II
comes down 10 the fact that their
Iexperience with people, doing for
them and doing with them. IL what
makes everybody love their life and
what II can reveal.
One OF the most wonderful old peo-
pie living today Is Mrs. j. L. B
Stuart, wife OF the Confederate gen.
eral. She had a right to shut her.
self up with her sorrow and hei
aristocratic blood it ever anybody
did, but II she had do you think
mothers who went TO school to hei
In Virginia would now take thell
children hundreds of miles to Nor.
folk just that these children could
see her and listen to her talk? That
Is what some do.
She doesn't talk OF herself. II II
about other people and their deed.
and experiences. but had she not beer
among other people she could MOI
draw from such an interesting fund
When last | saw Mrs. Stuart she
was over eighty, travelling alone, and
interested in everybody on the train
from the engineer 10 tho back Pull
man porter. II was easy to see why
she was sought. A mother on the
train gathered a group of children
together and told them they were
going to meet the most interesting
woman she had ever known and the
most interesting they would probably
ever know. and she wanted them tc
listen attentively TO every word she
said. Then she asked Mrs. Stuart
TO talk TO them, about anything, jusi
talk. and that was the shortest 60.
mile journey the listeners ever made
She lived among people all of he,
young life; she lives among peopl,
today. Had she lived to herself al
'many choose to do. she most ukel,