Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-22
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The Genial Humorist's Advice to Poo
pie Who Try to Be Young.

The GENIAL HNn1OT1St>S AdUlce to PeO-
pie Who Try to Be Young.
There comes time when we grow
old-some of us. All men and women
do not grow old. Some people die
young. But it may be stated as de.
mostrable fact that all people who live
long enough grow old. The longer you
live, the olderyou grow. Some people
carefully disguise the fact, but coat
of paint on an old house merely makes
it look smart; it doesn't keep the rick
ETY. old stairway from ereakng, and it
won't straighten up the wirdow-frame
that's gone little askew as the house
settles. You can-or, at least, the man
from whom bought my last horse can
fix up an old horse of seventeen years
to look like frisky colt of three or
four, and to act it, too, for about fifteen
minutes. But it won't last. There are
times when man who iswalking along
that pleasant decade of his pilgrimage
between the fortieth and fftieth mile
stones feels inspired to run, and leap,
and dance, and sing, end renew his
youth in various ways, hut the spirit is
evanescent, and the fashion of it pass
eth away, and he sayeth "of laughter,
It is mad and of mirth, What doeth to"
And he looketh upon "the men singers
and women singers, and the delights of
the sons of men," and behold all is
vanity and vexation Of spirit, and there
is no profit to him in that sort of
thing.
Out" says beautiful woman, your
preaching is only for men. Now, I
frankly own to forty-one, and am not
ashamed of it" (bless her, she was
pretty girl in the class above me when
we went to school in Peoria; [ was
eleven and she was fourteen them !;
land I feel just as young to-day as ever
was" Away, slight woman! Go,
hang thy tresses on the back Of "a chair,
and soak your yearly smiles in goblet.
1t is 10 o'clock, get thee to bed, and
save thy eyes and spare thy wrinkles.
There now, don't cry, dear old friend.
Tears used to make your eyes swim in
melting mists of liquid tenderness;
when you cry now it only makes your
nose red. At our age, too, when we
weep, we are apt to sniff and shuttle
and swallow audibly. 1t is pitiful, it
is pathetic, but it isn't pretty. Oh,
dear, no! Dear Mrs. Strengthawhonor,
go to bed; don't sit up for Prince
Lemuel. He is out with some girls
who are really and truly as young as
his mother sever was" thirty years ago,
and if he's in by o'clock, he'll call it
early. So will the girls.
"But," say you, Cannot one be
young-hearted after forty?" Yes, be-
loved, after sixty or seventy. Down to
the days of white-haired old age, the
heart may glow with tenderness, and
the quiet warm of the June sunshine of
years ago stored away in it's chambers
as ages ago the sun stored his heat and
light away in the forests of the earth,
to dance and CLEAN and glow again in
merry flames and summer warmth upon
the coal-fed hearths to-day. For this
reason, oh, my young hearers, rejoice
in the days of your youth, when the
light is sweet and it is pleasant thing
for the eyes to behold the sun; let your
hearts cheer you in these days of sun
shine and nights of starlight, and re-
move anger from thy heart, and put
away evil from thy fesh," remember
ing "the days of darkness, for they
shall be many!" And the freight that
will come to glow upon the hearth and
dance in warmth and tenderness upon
the walls of your hearts chambers in
those days will be the light yon are
storing away now. Be happy and light
hearted, then; but be the house of your
mirth as pure as temple, and your
laughter as sinless as the song of birds;
in all your mirth and dancing, exalt
wisdom; and, indeed, she shall bring
thee to honor, and give to thine head
an ornament of grace; then shall the
years of thy life be many and thy heart
be ever young.
But your physical man won't be ever
young, oh, foolish nearer, and your
thoughts won't be, and your tastes
won't be! Out on the knock-kneed old
squad who weareth the raiment of the
youthful dude, and will "set down his
name in the scroll Of youth that it is
written down old with ell the char
acters of age" "Have you not moist
eye? dry hand? . yellow cheek? 4
white beard? decreasing leg an in