The Fruit-Farm and Old Age 343 



est, most famous places. Ancestor-worship, the 

 most ancient religion of the race, is a product, an 

 early product, of belief that a man is the finest fruit 

 this planet can bear. The valley which produces 

 the best men and women is the valley in which to 

 live and die. Youth or age there is sacred. None 

 too young, none too old for reverence. The price 

 of living is above rubies. There the fruits of the 

 earth grow to perfection, every tree and vine 

 producing after its kind. One of the choicest, the 

 rarest fruits of the Fruit Valley is Old Age, accom- 

 panied by ''love, honor, obedience, and troops of 

 friends. *' 



