Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-05-21

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Calls on you TO do the rest. Wash ~
off. Clogged pores, no draft for LIES
furnace. Life's 6re there shoulders.
Hence you feel dull, sluggish old. Skin
breathes as well as lungs-or would IL
it could. One half the worlds skins
bat 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 people that are newer every time
you see them. Don't keep old clothes
after you've worn all, the life out of
them. I. They 'relfull of your old emana-
tions. Full, in fact, of your deadness.
Fact for future philosophers to build
brilliant reputation on. Fact to-day,
nevertheless. New clothes bring their
own new life.
Can't afford 'em ? Makes no differ
ence as to result if you can't. Even
snakes have more sense than to crawl
back into their old dead skins. But
serpents are wise, il they can't wear
high-heeled shoes. No snake will wear
his coat oyer a 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 as dream Of. Half our brain
softening. paralysis, 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. III q poet cuts
down a tree the strength he puts In the
ak might have written poem. But ne
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 'eua.
Better be left a dozen times than train
yourself to be always in hurry. One
third. at least, of our grown-up children
are trained:to the habit of hurry. Hope
less 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 hurlying to
business. Awful waste of force
there ate for. slept for and
paid for. Think an orator. could
make speech and turn grindst0ne at
the same timer Steam turned on two
machines when there's hardly power
for one. Result: poor speech, poorly
turned grindstone, debilitated orator
and old age at fifty. '
Don't knuckIe to the old fogy, male.
female, who tells you that because
things haye been so and so in the past.
so must they ever be just SO i'm all fu-
ture. Nonsence. Same sort said anne
thing to Columbus, to Fulton, to
Morse, to everybody who had new
idea. Bounce anybody who says sit
can't be-" Impossiblity 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 care
of bodies. Hundred years hence, ifnot
sooner, some will be in their prime at
eighty. Nothing wonderful. Just lies
in knowing how to make new bone,
new flesh, new nerve and new mind.
Get up and keep up aS many new in
terests as you can. Learn to do new
things with your hands an well as your
head. Every new interest is a new grip
on life. New occupations bring new
thought. New. thought is lew life.
News keeps half the people now
from stagnating.. Commence a new
trade, new start, new study at ff-
ty or sixty. Yes, if you have time and
taste for it. It's a tonic. Many a rich
inyalid would get well if he'd appren-
tlce himself to a blacksmith or a carp
enter for two. hours a day. sls5s-g
Halfthe old boys and girls are asham-
ed to begin learning anything new; a.
shamed to show awkwardness of begin
ner to younger people; want to keep up
bogus dignity. Humbug. All outside;
nothing pretentiouslknow-
ings.
Say you: "But I'm too hard pressed
to make a living for self and family 70
commence any new ways at my time 0f
life." Sorry for you. Result the same.
Nature says, "Go this way" Nature
says, "Go that" Nature says, Rest
and recuperate." Business, necessity
circumstance says, "Work and grow
weaker" Well?
PRENTICE MILFORD.