St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-07-31

the Inheritance carried rom
childhood adolescence the pat
tern is there and will remain with through
NELL RUSSELL the labyrinth o we know
everything experience II takes
another ten disabuse
have long since completed our formal schooling
suttng sophomores In college worldly wisdom
because we know and have experience
cocy opnonated another ten wears
to learn that opinion by shallow vessel
with eoiapsbe bottom Thirties should
rightly smoothing polishing
the most promising spots
And so arrive at 40 1t age are in
oable state of preservation and
other than an occasional tendency to Our after
we can reasonably expect to pun through
Even the give us that margin
However time is running along swiftly journey
has started If the posterty is strong
enough step UP our pace 10 Keen
abreast of the Tipping pages of the calendar.
Some caught dreary treamin Of every
day routine existence living.
the Fortes without being morning
into the mirror Jolt hair line has
Although we see the
expanding bald spot the grey
ing streas appearing the hair
going along in the happy tapped
tain Of youth and ndesuctible smith
who used to go to school with drops suddenly
on the obituary notices In the pecuI
lar fascination personal
as move into the F1fes
In spite Of whatever receive
at 40 stimulating decade of all We are ex
perenced without without being cynical
we not young but neither
don't like the compost. pictre ave s, NV
time strike in boldly with new
clean People should be starting slender
cropping growing passing years of sun and
storm But people aren't trees.
The Lord having look out for is busy
Man everybody trion billion planets thousand
million old the overcrowng
the Lord arranges His Univese
dot of point in Infmy that
can only be around for allotted
and make somebody Seeing OF us has any
choice except to Depopuaon Idea the best
can do is try and leave in tiny
wisp way good intention not recognized fo
almost as soon as it said friendly sincerity wher
1t was most needed
is only when time in our lives when We
ahze the great significance small things
experience into n nicotine
At 20 don't have knowledge At so we don't have the
maturity AT 10 knowledge and ,be ma,
tury and the knowledge, F1ies with
barren heritage and lag into the nothing 10 hope
for or look forward to- II Forty wen
have accomplishment and Fifty. respect
and accomplishment Fifty, dignity mother wis
dom Mt Sixty Ironically II only when greatest
wisdom that have the put u to good use
Then we have to shove off and limo
cent This seems like waste John PEN In his
novel temptation sums II with striking clarity writing
life, said: " h
e" The the COURTYARD tn. evening
star twnkied crimson in the sky. ruby thought like
ruby In the mechanism of clock thought shudde
though
What a mechanism,
who wound 1t II stops What drives n with
such terrifying perfection? All ruby tipy wheel
an insignificant face OF the c,ocl n
ticks night and day and hour has
everything In hangs every bolt b.e, and
spring the whole cxpediency Tina, each holt
mas its place and each YOU too YES vou
100 nave place and orbit like and the
SHRUBS or the bird the awhile and then
topples over dead You for
In the world like child who
with message and by the time forgotten What
IL was" - ~
BY the time Of only have cess. r,
ping with the question Of what ever did
grappe with u at all but have
Tor Jusy1ng daily existence young only t
years ago so II and suddenly become middle
aged So let it that figure the badng nv
ing hair the myopc sight defeats no longer under
challenging anything and longer challenged We let the
world by like express whose lighted Windows nssb
briefly In and out Of Of the farm house
tram carrying its Passengers interesting destinations
This is what many Of us But II doesn, bay.
10 De at way Even the simple housewife
changing her hair life One can reor
sn time to look ahead without necessity regrettng too
much the unpleasant truths OF looking back
IL Is when look hack that
are truly defeated Grandma Moses
painting In her eighties When the pop
uiarity Of instead
of making objective are TODAY is
sign OF one Of two things Either
are today regetang
We get old when present and focus
our memories entirely the Some
age we should be renewing our
hold life Others young heart in the sixties
Seventies
II life is intriguing Forty interesting at Fifty sixty
Seventy That is why there Is saying
Life Begins At Forty"