Special days – Senior citizens’ day and Presidents’ day

Senior Citizens’ Day

The other day an old timer soliloquized: “It ain’t age that’s aggravatin’ just the jolts that let us know it’s on the way.” How true! Age advances so gradually, we stay unaware of it until one human frailty after another shows up in the bathroom mirror.

A Senior Citizens’ Day would help absorb some of the shocks that come when a sweet young thing gets up to give you her seat; or you read that a child movie starlet is getting her third divorce; when your dimple turns to a denture dent; and your hairline seems to recede from your brow like a shoreline ebbing at low tide.

It’s rough when Senior citizens feel on Saturday night the way they used to on Monday morning, and instead of stairs two at a time-they take their pills that same way . . . and how rude the awakening when that gleam in his eye proves to be but a glare on his glasses! None of these surprises come to one of us alone; that’s part of the pleasure in growing old … we have so much company on Senior Citizens’ Day!

Presidents’ Day

On Presidents’ Day, March 4th, we think of the contrasts in the chiefs of our nation and their personal peculiarities. Attributes common to many of them have been their modesty, humility and simplicity. From silent Cool-idge to talkative Truman . . . from lean, lanky Lincoln to short, fat John Adams, we’ve had a typical American mixture of men in our highest echelon. Lincoln towered six feet four, but Madison couldn’t make five feet flat. Taft weighed in at a quarter ton, while Madison barely hit a hundred. Historians speak of him as more mind than man.

“Teddy” Roosevelt, “Andy” Jackson, William Harrison, Taylor, Grant, and Eisenhower all were outdoor men. Monroe, Adams, Van Buren, Garfield and Wilson were fireside favorites. Jackson was a pepper pot, and Arthur was solemn as a burial at sea. Harding has been described as the most handsome, but other presidents fell below par. Lincoln has been said to have resembled a crane in a wrinkled suit, and a man who looked as though he’d tried to swallow an apple but it stuck in his throat. Despite these impressions, he’s generally conceded as having been the best of the lot.

Log cabin origins were commonplace among our early leaders, but with our two new states, birthplaces of these outstanding men in the future might well include a little icy igloo or a little grass shack.

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