Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-03-25
Encouragement to Old Folks.

A short time ago the London Times
gave an-account of an old lady more than
eighty years of age, who had cut her third
set of teeth, and her features, it is said,
have now the juvenescence of thirty years.
Many such facts could be collected. We
are therefore bound, perhaps, to give cred
ence TO certain good authorities when they
assert that such natural changes have oc-
CURED in the entire body, that the powers
of youth have been restored to persons
with whom they have been familiar
"Velescus de Taranta (et US by all means
cite authorities) relates that there was an
abbess in the nunnery at Monviedra, who
reached the great age of a hundred years,
and was then very infrm; but the lost
powers of nature Unexpectedly came back
to her. Black hairs sprouted from her
head, and the white hairs were thrown off;
all the teeth returned into her mouth !;
wrinkles were lost from her face; her bo-
som swelled and she became as fresh and
lovely as she had been at thirty. Many
focked to see this marvel, and no doubt
paid for the privileged; but the abbess
did not readily suffer herself to be seen, for
she was ashamed (she said) of the reeol
lectious that her restored beauty awakened"
1t is also asserved that there are means
in nature of restoring you. In House
hold Words, it is said, there. is fountain
in the island of Bonica which restores
youth to those who drink its waters. Ger
tain of the inferior animals are also ac-
quainted with herbs that restore youth to
them; the stag RECEIVERS it by eating snakes,
and the snakes recover it by eating fennel.
italian ladies used to eat meat in order to
retain their freshness and youth. Johnston,
in his Chemistry of Common Life, says;
"Before a Circassian beauty is sent to the
Seraglio at Constantinople, she eats about
an ounce of a choice and peculiar descrip-
ton of mama (the Sinai manna,) every
day for eight or ten weeks. This has the
effect of imparting ena6onpoint-or rather,
of beautifully rounding all the angels of
the human frame; and without the least
exaggeration the result is form as beau
tiful as living Venus de Medicis. This
mamma is also much esteemed in Syria for
affections of the chest" Roast hare is also
said to be great preserver of beauty.
Several well-authenticated instances are
likewise recorded of rapid change in the
color of the hair. By an inscription on a
tombstone at Breslau, it appears that one
John Montanus, who was dean there, re-
covered the color of his hair three times
1t is next to impossible to deny the great
age of the patriarchs-of Metbuselah, of
Cainan, and of Enos. That they passed
into age at the ordinary period of life ia
miliar to us, and then continued with the
same appearance of age and decrepitude for
the remainder of their days, is not proba-
bic; far more reasonable to suppose that
they recovered their youthful powers at
certain periods like plant that putteth on
youth every spring. In our seventh age"
we not unfrequently again become child
ish." Does ii therefore appear incredible
or impossible that man may occasionally,
after bis three score years and ten, again
exhibit the powers and physicsl qualities
Of youth -.Sepfimns Presse.