Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — Land of Youth. [ARTICLE]

Land of Youth.

Old men are rare In California. This Is almost literally true, but I mean men old in interests and activity. I recall in one middle western town five houses in a single block on whose porches sat ancient bearded men who gazed out at nothing, were interested In nothing, did nothing. In California graybeards are there, but few, indeed, who sit in dreams. They are at work; not driven to it by the grim fear of want, but blithely, as young men, rejoicing that their race Is not yet run. I recall at once a giant of To wuo still, works and rides and plays with boyish relish. Life itself is old men’s meat in California and they pursue its pleasures with unabated vigor.—Travel Magazine.