ADVICE TO OLD MEN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4874, 23 August 1884, Page 4

ADVICE TO OLD MEN.

Don't presume t>n joun age. Don't be voh» of your .handsome gray hair and whiskers. Don't set yourselves tip ** models of | propriety in public and get' full of booze in private. Don't think because young men ere young they are fools. They probably are, but you were JouDg once yourself. Don't take the front seats at ballet shows. Your bald heads reflect the light unpleasantly* Don't' say vulgar thiog9 before ladies and excuse yourself on tho ground that you are old enough to be their fathers. . Don't forget that nge must respect it- - golf before it can command it from others, i Don't sour the world on you by souring ' , yourselves on the world. Don't fool with temptation. Don't be too wise. Don't try to make love. The old fools are the biggest fools. , - Don't let your love of the world make *- you forget that a man nc>er gets too old " to die. ," ' Don't try to be a boy. Your grandsons will attend to that part of the business. Don't let the evening of life be less joyous than the morning. The.freshness of (he morning gave you vigor to work through time, and the quiet of the evening ' should give you peace to rest through . , eternity. '

A tragedy in two acts :— I. 1 ■ Boy, Gun; Joy, Fun. 11. oun, - , *. - Bust j Boy, Dnit. /'Mercy rap, what are those horrible .sounds upstairs?" " Oh, that is nothing but deaf George. I suppose he has lost hi* collar-Btud again,"