Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-27

The following beautiful and instructive
passages we extract from lecture recent
ly delivered by Mrs. E. O. SaITH.-
They are ~ truthful as they are beautiful.
"There is something so very fas.
chatting in health, that all of us are gull
ty Of clinging TO it, n meanness which it
is to be hoped the race will eventually
overcome; bat boys and girls should be
taught to feel that their own fine health,
with its attendant comforts; their own
beauty Of person, which is a sort of pat
ent of nobility. where heraldry dates
from God himself; their own mental ca
pacity, and moral worth are a capital of
value than all the millions ever stored in
the Bank of England, or accumulated by
Rothschild; and with this capital they
have the entree of all that is best 10 the
palace or the forum. They carry with
them the "open sesame of all that is
worthy of entering in the world, and
they may rest assured that with their ad
vantages, they viii never become conceit-
ed bores, nor pretentious interlopers, but
will represent that manly modesty and
refined humanity which is the browning
grace of the species.
Men and women. who have for long
years worked hands and brain, one or
both are from this very circumstance, dis
qualified from rest. They must work or
die. Brain and muscle must keep this
habitual channel, 90 on in the accustom
ed track, because all the life forces are
orooved in that direction, and will not
admit of the rust of inacton. With
sound health and sctiye mind, the secret
of youth flies in action.
Some mon and women are born old.
and were never Young. They have new
or flushed under the kines of the NOR
ming bright Apollo. They wind up ev
erythinc with sigh, and emphasize the
simplest duty with groan. They frown
at the kittens, aud would put Grape up
on the buttercups and dandelions. They
never can see the new moon without
oroaninr over the shadow Of the old
moon, which she holds in her arms; they
see perpetually the gloom of the impend
ing cloud, but never the fringe Of its
silver lining. "-Thcse old ones ought
to be sent to hospitals as soon as they are
born, for they are ike a wet blanket to
everybody else.
1t is a fine thing when it can be said
to one, Thou hast the dew of thy
YOUTH" 1t is the prerogative Of genius
to be always young. When it is said of
either man or woman that he or she
/ looks much Younger than the days and
months and wears which have marked
the calendar, be sure there is something
fine about them. The Innings Of Time
are very gentle, a soft unobtruslve touch,
melowing and genial; even enhaneng
the beauty o. some and ennohling 9th
ers. 1t is passion, distorted and evil. or
Iaziness and im5ecility,which sows the face
with ridges, or bloats it with sensuaty,
rs if we had lodged with satyrs, and not
been seated with the gods
A long life, even into the centuries, is
to be desired, and the world would be
the wiser and better for this protracted
experience, which does necessarily imply
the catalogue of disabilities described by
Shakes re-The dew Of youth may
be Ike a conseerated crown upon the
brow Of century, if the heart DO kept
warm and the intellect not Suffered to sink
into ethargy.
There is no help for man when his
back begins to round up; when he comes
to this, he is old When he crecps, also.
going all over in one motion, like ma
chine, he is past praying for; let him set
his house in order-maae his will, and
prepare for that bourne whence no tray
! pirr refurnS