ANTICIPATING AGE
Why do people allow themselves to fret about getting old? There are, tlioso who anticipate it and lour it as if it wore the most melancholy late that could befall one, and many' of them havo never boon really young in spirit. And youth is more a matter of spirit than it is of body. Enthusiasm, interest in everything, warmth of heart and breadth of feeling, are the qualities that stand lor youth. AVitliout these youth is a mockery and tlio aged possessing them are unalterably young. How to have them ? Tlioy are not so easy to acquire when not inborn, hut tlie not that is most lilcoly to catch them is that happy unselfishness that l’orcos' self to be lost in helping othors.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2176, 4 September 1907, Page 4
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126ANTICIPATING AGE Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2176, 4 September 1907, Page 4
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