American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-05-20

WaEaE DOES OLp AoE BEGIN LIEF.
To popular vote, hardly any two would
agree as to the point Of time at which
youth ds,erts Us and old age Mounts
guard That point Of tina is not an arbi.
trsry one. but is governed by the circuit:
stances Of each case: some men Of forty:
FIVE being older than others at sixty. The
line Of demsrkatiop. loo, is ottener con;
trolled By the mental condition than we
are aptto suppose. The art of growing
old gracefully depends solely upon the
disposition. and Of all arts is the one which
should be the most studied. Lie is so
short. that. 80 far as possible. it should. be
perpetual youth. and in keeping the affec;
iioas AMI sympathiesf fresh and green, much
can be done towards. securing such hal
eyon days here below.
By breaking down the barriers between
youth AMI age, and establishing terms Of
intimacy such as mark the intercourse Of
as ,ociates, there can be a system OF barter
arried on mutually beneficial. Age will
bes,ow upon youth its cheerful lessons OF
wisdom, AMI in return receive the vigor,
fresi ness and heartiness Of the early yearl
Thus one viii he strengthened and the
other iuvigoratsd. In the last Atlantic,
Autocrat Of the Breakfast table has su ar.
ticle upon the point Of time when old age
begins. upon which the Boston Courier ad-
mirably comments thus:
We cannot quist agree with some ofthe
Autocrat's notions. however. He mskes
old age, begin too soon. In our childhood
We used to hol such opinion ourselves
We remember the time when forty seem
ed most venerable number ot years to
have lived. But il was childish notion
and we have long got rid it. Cesar,
in more exhausting climate, called the
Romsn youag Gil 6fty. Foriy-ive, accord.
ing 10 out present views, matured by the
reflection, Of msny years. is quite too early
= period for the beginning OF hoary Eld:
II is mistake to suppose that less fuel Is
then consumed than before. On the con-
trarY,, We have found that more is requir-
ed to keep tn ) maehinety in motion. The
natural vigor is not yet diminished; the
hair is. not yet grey, except 10 peculiar
cases Which have nothing to do with years.
A: fifty. even the apperites are as healthy
aud vigorous. the fnsginsti a as lively.
the dreams Of ambition as absorbing, as at
thirty. No, no. friend Autocrat. The
{ earliest perio we can allow you 70 begin
to call man oil. is sixty; from sixty to
seventy five he ought 70 enjoy hearty age
fro that to the close Of his life. he should
gently descend The down hill. aud SO pass
sway. Men grow old early bec ,dse they
think they must. There is no necessity,
no Justification for such proceeding. II
wa. not SO in old times, or rather in young
; times Of the worlds history. We do hoi
speak Of the aye Of NethussIeh; that was
very well, but a little tedious. But We
can eall up from our classical recoiiectioni
an example or two. Isocratss was mod
: crate case He had work on his hands
at The age Of ninety eight. which his friends
advised him to 6nish.; because something
|. might happen. He finished il. and yea
: or Two afterwards. when the dishonest vic
toty' Of CT @ronea tried to xiii by repor
:. The old man eloquent it couldn't DO it,
Q Hs starved himself TO death. Gorglas, thu
sophist, lived to one hundred and twenty
2 years, and died with an anlithesis uPdI
his lips. But there ,is no need OF multi
|, plying examples, The fsct is undoubtsd
!, p that the natural commencement OF old ag'
! , is not a, forty-fvs. by a COOL deal. LIE
', men but resolve to live out their days-le
d them divide their lives mo reasbnaAle ant
uiroper stations, instead cf rushing at suct
p railway speed over the fdad Of existence
'r aud coming to the termi1ods before their
) iitburney Is half over; Rnd then VIC shall SCI
le he eo1di,iou OF moirtalitt take an oncOur
le aoinc Upward tendency. Then we shoulf
Ie not Be- in such terrible hurry; We shoalt
70 have time enough to accomplish ell ou
u tasks deliberately and thoroughly, and =
e feno.s on our lsurelS. without worrying
.: ourselves with the fear tbt We shall lon
): our only chance to gain second WTsas'
n of them. ...s:.,E
= = eyThe sickness which recently Ptevail
= ed at the Univsrsity Of Virginia, and caus