The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-11
GROWING OLD.
What to Do IL One Would Grow Old Raj
idly.

What to DO IL One would Grow Old Rap
idly.
Think you are growing old, and you
will soon grow.
Take your place obediently in the
groove long made by custom for peo-
pie of middle age or little past it.
Separate yourself entirely from the
young. Regard with undisguised con-
tempt their lack of experience. Scold
at their mistakes with no effort at con-
Citation or making friends with them.
This with them will give you your de-
gree as "old fogy." An sold fogy'
may be simply child who has stopped
his learning with the idea that he
''knows it all" There are "old fogies"
at twenty-five as well as fifty.
Kill all inclination to indulge in what
are called youthful SPORTS" Learn
not to run. Cultivate in your limbs
dignity, slowness, stiffness. Regard
with serenity your slowly escaping
vigor, Suppleness and elasticity of
muscle. Say it's the inevitable way of
all flesh, and because this has always
been SO with past generations, so it
must always be with the coming ones.
Say to yourself: "It's law of ma
ture that people must grow old, decay
and wither when their time comes"
just as our grandfathers said, "It's
agin natur that news can be carried
any faster than horsefesh can carry it
or that ships can cross the ocean any
faster than wind and sails can carry
them" Say so to yourself, Body
and mind must decay after certain
age, and it's flying in the face of Provi-
dence even to question that such decay
can be retarded if not prevented"
Don't recognize that every new in
terest is as fresh grip on life, and that
as we lose interest the grip relaxes its
hold. Let child be so kept that it
learns absolutely nothing, not even a
game or sport, and note what an old
face it will have at twenty-one. Note
as to outward appearance of age at
thirty-tive, the stolid, stupid day
laborer, little better than an animated
muscle for moving heavy weights, and
the intellectual man of refined tastes
and varied associations and pursuits,
and see if in the contrast there be a
suggestion how the mind may keep
Cne pody young.
Learn nothing new. Say it's now
too late and that all your dancing days
are over. Be ashamed of taking up
any new study or pursuit. WhyP
Analyze your shame and you NAV find
that the lack of skill characterizing
your first efforts it put you ON the
same footing as child. But you are
not a child. You are grown up full of
years and vast experience in that dig
nifty which assumes to know so much
and really knows so little.
There are helps all around you to
assist you in growing old. Kind friends
from time to time will comment on the
appearance of gray hair or a line in
your face, with the expression in their
words, Time to begin to get ready for
the grave" Be convinced by them.
that is, as they say.
Cease all attempt at reformation or
improvement in any direction. If you
have any manner of slipshod or SLOW
emily inclination, whether it extends to
dress or address or gait, let it all go
'by the run, as they say at sea. Say
to yourself: All that effort will do for
a young man. But it's no use for me
at my time of life" What timer Oh,
say fifty, or fifty-tive or sixty.
Fret a good deal and hate a good
deal. This will materially assist you
rapidly to grow old and ugly.
In your eating and drinking study
only your palate. Regard all as cranky
or "crochety" who talk of eating for
health as well as pleasures sake
Prentice Multord, in N. Y. Graphic.