to lose them.

A horse or a dog that accompanies its master and lives with him into his last years becomes dear to his heart, a companion for his weariness and his desolation...

And the ancient oak at the edge of the village is a treasure beloved to the hearts of its old folk; for as it spreads its boughs into space, it seems to open its arms to enfold them in its love and its tenderness. And besides this, it seems to know more of their doings and their sto-ries than any human being! And the emigrants in far-off regions — what a mighty longing burns in their anguished hearts for those ancient trees that witnessed the battles of their childhood and the escapades of their boyhood and their youth, with all the splendor and heroism and crushing defeat those battles and escapades held... They carry for them a yearning and a homesickness such as they carry neither for their kin nor for their soil...

Nor do I mean to belittle the worth of the book by having left it unmentioned until now. And what is there like the book? It is the genial friend, the keeper of the covenant, on the day friends fall away or scatter. Reading — heavy and light, in every color and on every subject — is among the most potent means of driving away desolation and banishing weariness. So whenever you feel the fingers of desolation begin to tease your eyelids, standing between you and restful sleep, take to reading, for it is the healing remedy; and do not forget that you may choose from it only what pleases you to read and delights you — and then you will find that you are refreshed.

The desolation of old age is one of our delicate social prob-lems, whose treatment we must approach with much psychological analysis, with regard for the sen-

sitivity of the old and respect for their years, and with forbearance toward them over small, passing things. And I hold that the aged person, however keen his concern with material things, keeps the side of feeling as his first need, and that whatever touches his feelings on that side drives him toward desolation and gloom.

The remedy for this desolation,

and the only road to its cure, is to lay up a store of those deep spir-itual treasures — of friendships human and other than human, of a practiced habit of invigorating reading and of amusement with light occupations — in a warm family atmosphere, gladdened by the cooing of a little child, with the angels of tenderness and love hovering over it...

Robia — Tootal

For happy occasions!...

Robia, the loveliest of fabrics and the easiest to wear. From it you can make light, refreshing blouses, and you can also make a sumptuous evening gown.

Robia does not crease

Robia is guaranteed by Tootal

ROBIA

A TOOTAL PRODUCT

And it is always printed on the selvage of the cloth with the words

TOOTAL R.E.G.D

GUARANTEED FABRICS

The words 'Tootal' and 'Robia' are Registered Trade Marks