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When One Is OldWe are repeatedly hold Uiat youth and age are not measured by years alone Some are old fogies at 30; others have the spirit of youth at 80 How Is this?An article in a recent issue of an educational joutnal expresses tite Idea of youth and age better than we could express it so we quote it in part:“Youth is not a time of life: it ia a state of irilnd. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions Youth mesrriTS^ a predominance of courage over tim-I idfty, of the appetite of adventure lover the love of ease This often exists in a man of fifty na-e than in a boy of twenty Nobody grows old by merely living a nunibet of years People grow old by deserting their ideals.John D Rockefeller, for Instance, plays golf with zest at the age of 91 Thomas A Edison is inventing and planning at the age of 83 John R Voorhis is active as president of the board of elections of New York City at the age of 101These and hundreds of .others are extremely old in years, but oong in spirit. Thus setting a good example for the rest of us.
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Cazenovia Republican
Cazenovia, New York, US
Thu, Sep 18, 1930
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