Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — Ripe and Sweet. [ARTICLE]

Ripe and Sweet.

It will not take many years to bring one to the period of life when men, (it least the majority of writing and talking men, do nothing but praise. Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. It is a fact that most-writers, except flour and' unsuccessful ones, get tired of finding' fault at about a time when they are beginning to grow old. At 30 we are all trying to cut our names in big letters upon the walls of this tenement of life ; twenty years later we have carved it, or shut up our jack-knives. Then we are ready to help others and care less to hinder any, because nobody’s elbows are in our way