VIRTUES OF OLD AGE.
“The best, time in a man’s life is between seventy and eighty. Young and middle-aged folk think that we elder people have passed the age when wo can enjoy the .good tilings of life. They aie wrong, i'ue older we get
the more fun-we find in watching - tiic world go round,” writes Mr Kellogg, of Pa ct Lam ;-, in •-‘•‘•Wornaids World of Australia.” “In my, own case, I feel better now than 1 ever did. Idleness doesn't suit mo, and, having now retired from active, Government work, I fill up--my time, with work in my law office in St. Paul and with golf. Golf is the best game for busy men. One of niy friends who is toil or twelve years older than 1 tolls me, however, that,- being only 75, 1 have not yet reached the best decade. He says one only begins to live when one is well over the eighties. I look forward with considerable pleasure to that ideal agC;”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1930, Page 3
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