The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-03
HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.
HOW THE MIND CAN KEEP THE BODY
FROM GROWING OLD.
The Rust That Wears Both Body and
Soul-How Thought Can Build New
Physical Structures-The Wise
Man of the Future.


minds, fretted minds. sour, cross. ugly.
suriy, Peevish, sad, melancholic minds wear
a young body into an old one ten, twenty,
thirty years ere its time
Two thirds of our old age, so-called, comes
of rust, dead rust, treadmill lives, living in
ruts, learning nothing new, declaring we're
too old to learn.
Young man marries at twenty-three-
Young woman ditto. "Settle down" Give
up recreation, boats, balls, dancing, croquet,
etc. Turn five-sixths Of their lives into bust
ness and housekeeping.
Result at thirty-five: Young mans rut is
worn too deep for him to crawl out of.
Thinks he's seen about all there is IN life to
live for. Has settled down into eating, sleep
ing aud postering from store to house and
house TO store. Begins TO ''lay up for old
age. Sees himself in thought an old man.
Result, he does grow old, acts old, thinks
old, not knowing that thoughts are live
things built out of highly rarefied mat
ter, that mind is at workand in ex-
istence in every atom of our bodies, and
that the mind fun of fresh, hopeful, hap
Ply thought, and of plan, purpose and project,
makes and keeps the freshest, strongest and
most vigorous body.
Ericsson as alive with work and invention
as ever at eighty -four; Gladstone in his sew
entities running England; De Lesseps canal
ling and over seventy; Victor Hugo hale and
hearty at eighty or Whereabouts; Peter Cooper
unfiagging iE mental vigor up to his last mo-
ment, when over ninety; Beecher more pow
erful than ever and has long passed his three
score-do not these point to greater future
knowledge ON this subject.
No need of man or woman giving up and
settling into old age and old ways and be
coming ''old folks" if the wear and tear of
life has carved few lines ON their faces OF
whitened few hairs. It's the giving up
business that starts them on the down grade
fast, stoops the shoulders, weakens the knees
and ages the face What man or woman
think of themselves inside that they soon be-
come and show outside
Some day not far hence a reputed very
wise man will come to the front and show to
the world what some already know, to wit:
That thought is a substance, with possibilities
concerning not mere longevity, but the full
retention, if not increase of snap, vigor,
Is everything learned about everything
yeti If one-fourth the attention was paid to
the study of making stronger bodies and
clearer brains that is now given to making
money, wouldn't new truths and ''big points,
soon crop out somewhere Is the human
race at the end Of its tether in the getting Of
knowledge.
Make up your mind to keep fresh. To
''make up" your mind will from time to time,
and all the time, keep bringing you new ways
and means for keeping fresh. Don't live
over much in recollection of old times, old
associations. That's living in your back
brain That's looking back all the time. Bad
practice. Mrs. Lot looked back. Salt. Keep
fresh. Look forward Just as good times in
the future as in the past. Better. Suns as
bright to-day as forty years ago. Read Paul.
Forget the things that are behind, and press
forward to those that are before" Looking
always back is old thought. o. T. makes
you old.
vegetables, fresh fruit. Get life in it. Tran s.
fers such life to you. No economy in your
provision because its cheap. Puts lead in
you instead of life. PoisonS your blood in
stead of enriching it. Makes your brain dull
Injuries your purse. Bounce sailed foods.
Can't cheat your stomach that way. Fills
up. Mainly with dyspepsia or some form
Of scurvy.
Live in the present and in all that's going
on that you take in, and also enough in
the future to see what's coming. Don't cut
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think you mus keep the company of old
putterers (who have stopped growing and
are dead but don't know itl just because
they were born the same year with you.
What's experience and wisdom good for if
out of it You can't make yourself good COM
pany for man or woman half OF even one
third your agel
Wash off your dead skin Otter. Dead skin
is part of your own corpse clinging to You.
Body's done its part in throwing off dead
matter thr ugh the pores. Calls ON you to
do the rest Wash it of. Clogged pores,
no draft for hfes furnace. Lifes fire there
shoulders. Hence you feel dull, sluggish,
old Skin breathes as well as lungs-or
would if it could. One half the worlds skins
but half work Result loss OF snap.
Don't keep old things around Live in the
new as much as you can. New houses, new
clothes and among the kind of people that are
newer every time you see them Don't keep
old clothes after you've worn all the life out
of them They're full OF your old emanations.
Full, In feet, of your deadness. Fact for
future philosopher to build brilliant reputa-
hon on. Fact to-day, nevertheless New
clothes bring their own new life
Can't afford 'eml Makes no difference as
to result II you can't. Even snakes have
more sense than to crawl back into their old
dead skins. But serpents are wis, if they
can't wear high-heeled shoes. No snake will
wear his coat over year. Some men wear
theirs dozen-for economy's sake.
Don't hurry about anything. Haste makes
more waste of life's force than most of us
drsm Of Half our brain-softening, paraly-