The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-10
ANIMATION or YOUTH.
lt Can He Retained w Occupation
Mind, Heart and Hands.

Il Can He Retained W Occupation -
Mind, Heart and Hands.
Few women realize tha. the secret q
retaining the animation Of youth II
found in occupation Of mind, heart and
often hands. A woman without An OBJ
iect in life is the most wretched and
restless of mortals. There Is . per-
petual 81 W about some women; they
always impress you, a. Helen Hunt said
Of one Of her heroines, rs having just
heard some good news, their lives seem
keyed to melodies unheard by the ordi-
nary mortal. They are rarely sick,
never sad and never idle. And 1t will
be found that every day in the lives Of
this class has its appointed duties-not
Q mechanical routine. but hours filled
with varied interests. The home claims
part Of the time, the church another,
society and some literary pursuit yet
another. All of these things help to
produce harmonious development Of the
entire woman. There are no moments
for idle repining or morbid brooding.
A woman of wealth and leisure be-
lieyed herself suffering from nervous
prostration and sought famous physi-
clan. Madam, l can do nothing for
you," was his reply to her appeal for
help. "You need only great absorb
ing interest in your days, something to
rouse you into sympathy with life."
Formerly it was believed that . wo-
mans interest should be bounded by
the four walls OF her homo, but the
world is growing broader, and realizing
that those women conscious Of member
ship In the great human family are it,
valued helpers
Women in the country grow old faster
than their city sisters, because Of their
isolation from centers Of activity, CEN
ters not Of locality, but Of thought.
It was meant that heart and mind
should develop througha all the years Of
existence. yet how few realize the rela-
tion Of such progression to health and
happiness. Fashionable women are be-
ginning to realize II, and to appreciate
the importance Of mental stimulus. In
deed, they are often moro earnest than
the class by whom they are regarded -
frivolous and shallow.
For the few years succeeding her Do.
but modern belle may surrender her.
self to the designations OF society, but
few women past thirty spend their lives
in one round of gayety. The society
woman realizes that In order to main
tain her popularity as the years 60 by
she must possess versatility. and to this
end she is an unnagging worker. Music.
literature, the study of the languages,
nothing is neglected that can add to her
attractiveness in the social world. And
In consequence she wields at forty .
,, power she never had at twenty-five, and
has, withal, physical beauty which =
the wonder OF the uninitiated.
People who live upon the material
plane, whose lives are void Of al ami
mating impulse, are those who are dull,
listless and aged before middle life il
reached. The men and women who
never grow old keep young because
their pulses beat in sympathy with the
worlds great arteries; they are the
ones remembered and honored in the
social and literary world; and they are
those who make all life richer for hav-
ing lived. s-Miller Magazine.
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