Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-03-25


with to cover the head and preserve the ard
bony skull from injury, than the hair sub
stance at once light, warm and graceful
There are three obvious divisions of human
life-a period of youth, including the period
before the age Of thirty; Of maturity, from ;hir-
~ TO fifty; and of old age. commencing about
the period OF fifty TO six'y.--David speaks OF
the age of man, being in his time, only three
score years and ten, or in rare cases four score
years, which may be reckoned the average lin
! it of human existence.
After The period Of fifty or sixty years, vary
ing of course in different constitutions, the
marks of old age begin to make their appear
ance the skin becomes more lean and shryeI.
led the hair changes TO gray color, or bald
ness occurs (; The teeth drop out, and, in con-
sequence of this. the lower parts of the face,
about the mouth and jaws, incline inwards
free and elasic--ihis is especially seen in
walking. old people generally treading upon
the whole base Of the feet, and hence have a
shuflling gait The blood circula,es slowly, the
animal heat is diminished, the pulse occasion
ally in,ermis, and The whole energies Of the
animal frame become lessened: the eyesigh,
begins TO fail, and dulness gradually comes O.
yer all The senses, the memory undergoes re-
markabe change-whle recent events pass
through the mind and make no impression, oc-
currences of early life continually sugges,
themselves, and are minulely called to remem-
brance
Although usually seventy years is the ex-
IRENE period Of human life, YET small portion
of those born ever reach even this few rare
instances occur where one hundred years or
upwards are obtained. The famous Parr lived
10 the age of one hundred and fifty nine years,
he married a, the age of one hundred and twen-
ty, and when one hundred and thirty, was able
10 thrash, and do all description of farmers
work. He was al last brough, from the pure
air and the homely diet of The country, into the
family Of the Earl of Arundel, in London,
where he drank wine and lived luxuriously
The sudden change of diet and circumstances
however, proved quickly fatal 10 him. Henry
/ Jenkins, another poor man, lived to the aston.
ishing age of one hundred and sixty mine years
ago, statement appeared of the ages Of the re.
sident pensioners of Greenwich Hospital
which contained al The time two thousand foul
! hundred and ten inmates. OF this number
ninety.six had attained TO or passed the age o.
eighty one only was above one hundred fif
teen were ninety or more; and eighty were
eighty and upwards. Abou, fory-two Of the
nineiy.sx were of aged families, and in some O.
this number both parents had been aged. Lon
gevity has in great number of cases beer
found 10 be Hereditary. Eighty of the ninety
six had been married seventy nine were il
the habit of using tobacco in some form or oih
er, and forty eight had drunk freely twenty
were entirely wilhou, teeth; 6fiy-lwo had bad
and fourteen good teeth. But the oldes
man in the house, who was one hundred ant
two, had four new front teeth within the five
preceding years. The sight was impaired ir
abou. one half, and hearing only in abou, The
fifth part of the number. Old people are gen
orally inclined for much exercise nor is il suit
ed 10 their stiff joints and impaired vigor; fo
the same reason they cannos endure much cold
Cheerful company, especially the company o
the young, is peculiarly grateful to old people
| Innocent amusemenis and recrea,ons are also
Of great consequence. and the mind should be
exercised in some useful or amusing pursuit
Cities, or at all events constant and agreeable
society, are favorable TO old age. In lonely
secluded country places, the mind sinks pre-.
maturely into ioa gloom and blank, for wan'
Of sufficient stimulus and variety to keep up The
rigor and play OF ideas Few deaths occur
from what is commonly called old age, or a
gradual and simultaneous decay of all The fanc-
lions. II may be said to happen when the
powers gradually decay, frs, Of The voluntary
muscles. then OF lhe via muscles, and lastly
of the hcaFl itself, so thai 10 sdsanced age, life