Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-05-21
HOW TOKEEP YOUNG.
HOWTHE MIND CAN KEEP
THE BODY FROM GROW
ING OLD.
The Rust That Wears Both Body
and Soul-How Thought Gan
Build New Physical Struct-
ures-The Wise Man OF
the Future.

Especial correspondence 10 the PATRIOT
BosToN, April 30.-Healthy body,
healthy mind. Old adage, convertible
terms-healthy mind, healthy mind.
More yet, keep the mind young and
fresh aud you keep the body ditto. Wor-
ried minds, ,racked minds ,fretted minds,
sour, cross, ugly, surly, peevish, sad,
melancholic minds wear young body
into an old one ten, twenty, thirty years
ere its time.
Two thirds of orr old age, so-called, !,
comes of rust dead rust, ,treadmill lives,
diving in ruts, learning nothing new,
declaring we're too old to learn.
Young man marrles at twenty three.
Young woman ditto. "Settle down."
Give up recreation, boats, balls. dane
ing, croquet, etc. Turn five-sixths of
their lives into business and housekeep-
ing.
Result at thirty.fye 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. He settled
down into eating, sleeping and potter
ing 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 rarefed mat
ter, that mind is at work and in exist
ence in every atom of our bodies, and
that the mind tull of fresh, hopeful,
happy thought, and of plan, purpose
and project, marks and keeps the fresh
est, strongest and most vigorous body.
Ericsson as alive with work and IN
yention as ever at eighty-four Glad
stone in his seventies running England;
DE Lesseps canaling and over seventy |;
Victor Hugo hale and hearty at eighty
or thereabouts; Peter Cooper unfag-
ging in mental vigor up to his last mo-
ment, when over ninety /; Beecher more
powerful than ever and has long passed
his three score--do not these point to
greater future knowledge on this SUBJ
ject.
No need of man or woman giving
up and settling into old age and old
ways and becoming "old folks" if the
wear and tear of life has carved few
lines on their faces or whitened few
hairs. It's the giving up business that
starts them on the down grade fast,
stobps the shoulders, ,weakens the knees
and ages the face. What man or wo-
man think of themselves inside that
they soon become and show outside.
Some day not far hence reputed
very wise man will come to the front
and show to the world what some al
ready know, to wit (: That thought is
a substance, with possibilities concern
ing not mere longevity, but the full re-
tention, If not increase of snap, yigor,
vitality in brain and body up to date.
Is everything learned about every
thing yet ? If one fourth the attention
was paid to the study of making strong
er 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 knowl-
edge ?
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. iD recol-
lection of old times, old associations.
That's Lying in your back brain. That's
looking back all tho time. Bad prac-
tice. 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 for
ward to those that are before" Look
log always back is old thought. 0. Z.
makes you old.
Eat, live, fresh food. Fresh eggs,
fresh vegetables, fresh food. Get life
in it. Transfers such life to you. No
economy in your provision because its
cheap. Puts lead in you instead of life.
Poisons your blood instead of enrich:ng
Makes your brain dull, Injuries your
purse. Bounce salted 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. can take in, and also
| e0ough in the future to see what's COM
ing. Don't cut off your lives with young
people. Don't think you must keep the
company of old patterers [who haye
stopped growing and are dead but don't
know it'll just because they were born
the same year with you. What's ex-
perience and wisdom good for if out of
it you can't make yourself good COM
pany for man or woman half or even
one third your age
Wash off your dead skin often. Dead
skin is part of your own corpse clinging
to you. Body's done its part i'm throw
! NO off dead matter through the pores