Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1897 — THE FIRST GRAY HAIR. [ARTICLE]

THE FIRST GRAY HAIR.

tt» Discovery Mirk- an Important Point in Human Life. You know what It is to And the first iray hair In your head? It quite stardas you; fn fact. It amuses you so much chat you baud It around to the family tlrcle that each member may laugh at the circumstance that a gray hair had been found where a gray hair wai not so much as suspected, said a geut'/cman some time ago. Young people look at you with a new feeling, hardly knowing, Indeed, whether to address you as a stripling or a p&trlareli. fssu have put one foot Into that somber and unbeautiful borderland which lies between summer andautumn.andtherels so going back again! All the gates ara locked and God has taken the keys away. A gray hair? It is the signature of time! It Is the beginning of the end. It Is a hint that you have lost something; It Is a flake which tells of the hastening snow. Such changes remind us In the gentlest possible manner that this Is not our rest. The night does not close In suddenly. The common end Is not violence and terriblenoss. We go gradually down the Bicep, and as a general rule time Is given ior refleo tion. Your first gray hair says, thlnkl You have come to a turn lu your life. This gray hair Is a notice to quit It Is not a keen weapon which cruelly cuts us down; ’tls but a gray hair, aad it says mournfully, thlnkl The gray hair tells us that the hours ore getting on, and presently the night cometh. There was your first day** sickness ;there was your first consciousness that your power of endurance waa falling. What Indeed, 1b all life, from the sunny l&ugbter of childhood to th« mellow solemnity of old age, but a bug cession of blunders.