Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1911 — WHEN OLD AGE IS A CURSE [ARTICLE]

WHEN OLD AGE IS A CURSE

* ’ T ’ v • • tV'd __ T _ • V ----- ~—— i —■ • > | ... „ , Wh<m cannot live with When they do not stand for anything in their community. - When they have lost the zest for life, the desire for usefulness. When it has developed only vulgarity, coarseness and animality. When their neighbors would not consider their departure any loss. When all the youthful fires have gone out and only embers remain. When the individual has not learned the self-control and patlenoe. When the individuality has been burned out by the fires of dissipation. 'When the sap of life has gone and the Individual is like a juiceless orange. When all the reserves of energy and force have been prematurely exhausted by a vicious life. When it has left the individual ugly, disagreeable, touchv. evnfont, critical, uncharitable, unkind. When the old have not won the respect, the confidence and the admiratio#\of relatives and those nearest to them. _ ‘ . , • ..'' When all that Is good, sweet and noble has evaporated and life is empty. —Orison Swett Maiden, In Success Magazine.