Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-07-31

PAW for a man or woman half or even one
third your age.
Wash off your dead skin often. Dead skin
is part of your own corpse chnging TO you.
Bodys done its part in throwing off dead
matter through the pores. Calls on you To
do the rest. Wash it off. Gagged pores,
no draft for hfe's furnace. LIES fire there
shoulders. Hence You feel dali sluggish,
old. Skin breathes as well u. 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'v worn all the life out
of them. They're full of Your old eEanatlons.
Full, in fact, of your deafness. Fact for
future philosopher to build brilliant reputa-
ton on. Fact to-day, nevertheless. New
clothes bring their own new life.
Can't afford eml Makes no difference as
to result if 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 a year. Some mtn wear
theirs dozen-for ecOnomy's sake.
Don't hurry about anything. Haste makes
more waste of life's force than most of us
dream Of Half our brain-Softening, paraly-
sis, general debility comes of trying to do
from one to four things at once. Trying to
make the body do one thing while half or
more of the mind is on another. Mind
means force Mind, thought and strength
means the same thing. If poet cuts down
have written a poem. But he can't write the
poem and cut the tree down together. One
thing at a time Don't hurry for anything
or anybody. Let the boat go to thunder, the
world to smash and the cars to the-off the
track before you run for any Of EN-. Better
De left q dozen times than train yourself to
oe always in a hurry. One-third, at
east, of our grown-up children are trained
20 the habit of hurry. Hopeless cases. Can't
get out of it, Too late Thinking of what's
next to be done while trying to do what
should now be done from morning till night.
Pulling on pantaloons and thinking business,
eating breakfast and thinking business,
walking and hurrying to business. Awful
waste of force there ate for, slept for
and paid for Think an orator could make a
speech and turn a grindstone at the same
lime! Steam turned on two machines when
there's hardly enough power for one. Re-
suit: poor speech, poorly turned grindstone,
facilitated orator and old age at fifty.
Don't knuckle to the Old Fogy, male or
female, who tells you that because things
aave been so and so in the past, so must they
ever be just SO in all future. Nonsense Same
sort said ame thing to Columbus, to Fulton,
TO Morse, to everybody who had new idea.
Bounce anybody who says sit can be-" I'm
possibility Of to-day turns out possibility Of
tomorrow. People to-day average longer
lives and fresher lives at sixty than they did
forty years ago. Cause, more sense. Better
are of bodies. Hundred years hence, if not
sooner, some will be in their prime at eighty.
Nothing wonderful Just lies in knowing
how to make new bone, new flesh, new nerve
md new mind.
Get up and keep up as many new interests
as you can. Learn to do new things with
your hands Us well as your head. Every
new interest is a new grip on life. New oc-
equations bring new thought. New thought
Is new life. News" keeps half the people
now from stagnating. Commence a new
trade, new art, a new study at fifty or
sixty. Yes, if you have time and taste for
it. It's a tonic. Many rich invalid would
get well if he'd apprentice himself to black
smith or q carpenter for two hours day.
Half the old boys and girls are ashamed to
Segin learning anything new; ashamed to
ihow awkwardness Of beginner to younger
people; want to keep up bogus dignity. Hum
bug. All outside; nothing but pretentious
know to-nothings.
Say you: ''But Tn too hard pressed to
make living for self and family to COM
t-u1ence any new ways at my time Of life. -"
Sorry for you. Result the same. Nature
Gays, go this way" Nature says, &c
that" Nature says, REST and recuperate
Business, necessity, circumstance say, "Worl
and grow weaker" Welll
PRENTICE MULFoRD.