Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12

fibre tingles with perpetual youth, gay as
a lark and frisky as colt, and who never
dreamed but that his feelings corresponded
with the reality, entered most devoutly
and reverently into the petitions of a wor-
thy deacon for 1.-THE aged servant who had
so long labored in the vineyard" i"blessed
old man." our friends heart whispered
while his spectacles were growing misty,
''and who has so faithfully dispensed to
us the word, today" The new sensation
had arrived. 1t struck our venerated
friend from crown to toe like shower
BATH Warm chills crept through him.
"Can it be- he groaned. us this the aged
| seryant?"
1t may lessen the shock to note the
symptoms of growing old-we mean of be-
ginning to grow old. A silver hair is
nothing, nor dozen, nor three dozen, for
that may be hereditary, probably is-but,
if you are old fogy enough to use quill
| pen, see if you can mend it satisfactorily
without going to the window. Examine
yourself candidly as to whether you spring
| over buggy wheel exactly as you did.
Don't you hold your paper a little further
| off?
Brother Coffin" said Daniel Webster
to the spruce and wouldbe youthful
Rhode Island dandy lawyer, as he was as
| tutely strengthening himself back at arms
| length over document, you will have
| to get yourself pair of specs or a pair of
| tongs." We say nothing about threading
| needles, or new teeth, for we would not
| have our feminine readers suppose that we
are giving them any impertinent advice
on this subject. But as a manly accom-
plishment the knowing how to grow old
is of great value, and, if we mistake not,
somewhat rare. The beautiful old age
that Cicero wrote of in his De Seaectute is
not beheld every day. The hoary head
crown of glory, is what we read ofoftener
than we see. There is an engraved por-
| trait of Thorwaldsen which might we'll
hang on every household wall, to show
the royal type of beautiful old age.
! The mellow Indian summer ripeness,
sweetness and brightness of that serene
and noble face is benediction.
There was an old Hampden County
man, who died in Oberlin, not long ago,
| who knew how to grow old At four
| score he was the youngest man in any
! company; so bright, genial, cheerful,
| hopeful, even radical, was he. He never
croaked nor lamented. He enjoyed the
present hour and expected good times
| coming. His eye lit up every other eye,
and his speech rang with lofty cheer His
| eyes were always set in front, and he never
| walked backward to see the past. The
world was happier every day for John
| Keep. There is an old manufacturer,
whom one may often meet on some train
or other bereabouts who keens moving
and is always smiling and walks off in .
snrinpv way as If the world used him well
and he had 'nothinp to comnlain Of There
| is an old divine Who HAVING RESIGNED his
nuInit Gracefully and in timely season re-
ta;ns his riobtful leadership in society
and strikes ont with stccIv ring i've
thourbte ON LIVING subjects. and another
who tbougb noet thc allotted noriod az
man comns ont far his health in Canada
woods in frost time instead of bugcinr
tho ch;mney.corncr There is an old noef
with white locks. who walk. down Broad
wav 10 his daily most trapslatinc Homer
for his recreation with a sturdy stem that
nuts 10 shame many a longuid youth with
waved moustarho There is an old finon.
cior whose mort is noble as a Roman CEN
mrion,s and whose head is level who
also understands the art of GROWING old
And there msed to he old family factors
who rattled ohont in sull,ies and carried
,eathcrn nor,mantcaus win medicine
nnnngh IN Kin twenty horses who IN r.
the final bourne we're So blufi and hearty
and biIorions that tbnir merry souls did
rood desnitc their medicines
We sunnosc that il is n rood deal in the
blood, and well oXygenatcd blood. There
vas a fine old snccimcp of an Italian
General, who kept his blood aplow and
his old apc hale Nv keepinp i'm the saddle
~ hn,t,r cnrst;,1,;on uo hotter Ch,;e
tan. Muscular Christianity has great
advantage over that which isn't muscular.
Chronic invalidism is apt to engender
chronic peevishness, seIfshness and glum-
ness. The temptations of sickness may
be greater than those of health. If, then,
we suspect we are growing old let us, by
all means. keep a good digestion. 1t is
the next thing to good conscience, and
greatly conducive to it, Keep moving.
out OF the 'lean and slippcrcd pantaloon."
Don't retire from business. Have chair
in the office if you can't stand behind the
counter. Greet the old customers and also
the new Let the places which have known
you, know you still. Don't hide from the
present age, nor curse it as out OF joint,