The thing required for old men and women alike is some work suited to slower motion and lessened strength and greater need for quiet and independent thought.
This is a need which more women than men have met to-day, we repeat, but it is one that must be understood and effectively satisfied for men and women alike.
Edward Everett Hale said every man needed "both a vocation and an avocation"-- something by which he earned his living and something by which he maintained his interest in activity.

It is the avocation that must be planned for.

The vocation is often thrust upon one by necessity or chance association.

If every aged person had something to do that made each day short and each night a welcome rest much of the friction between the older and the younger members of families would be avoided and life would piece the generations together more perfectly.
=The Attitude of Mind Toward Old Age.=--Life calls upon us all to prepare while yet young for the lessened power of old age.

The removal from the commanding place to the honorable but more difficult position of the ex-leader and the chief-emeritus is a step that requires care.
The attitude of mind that can keep in harmonious touch with the oncoming generation and yet not lose the value of its own day of contribution to the social inheritance is an art to be acquired only by effort and the exercise of moral and mental power.