Personality

an no more fill than age can fill youth's position. There are thousands of places, positions and conditions of life which call for the poise and judgment of mature minds, and the person with age and wisdom can fill these places. It was written that after many serious accidents on a certain railroad a close investigation showed that they occurred through employees not remembering orders; through someone being asleep at the post, and another too late to receive a message when they should have been there, and the final decision was, "the men are too young." It could easily be seen that in such important places the sober judgment, lasting strength and physical endurance of older men were demanded. Youth has dash and glow and power to rush ahead and pioneer, but age has grit, endurance, steadfastness and power to hold on through hours of suspense and supreme tests, and these two avenues of life must forever be filled. The one who is obsessed with the thought of old age is shutting their own door of opportunity and no one says no to them but themselves. Once I was asked, "what is there in life for a woman after she is fifty?" The old world says, "nothing," the only thing that she can do is to bury herself, and the old world said also that "men after forty should be chloroformed." We have quit letting the croaker, the pessimist and the fatalist think and speak for the world. At fifty a man or woman is just beginning real life; they have finished their processes and are ready to begin a real existence; they have in them the wisdom born of many experiences, and their life can become a veritable cedar of Lebanon sheltering many tribes. If they seek the things in life, the people or the opportunities where age is a valuable factor, they will be one with a success higher than they have ever conceived existed for them. With experience, poise, power, endurance and a young heart, and a clear mind that understands life and its needs, age is a royal pathway of power and wisdom and the young everywhere will come and gather around and bring the fruit of their lives' greatness. We can be old in heart, mind, body, crabbed, set apart and morbid over our increasing years and waning opportunities, and the world will pass us by, letting us die alone. The obsession of today is another great stumbling block. There are thousands who expect to take out of today all their hopes and dreams, and weep because the day passes and nothing comes to them, they do not know that they are