The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
ANIMATION OF YOUTH.
1t Can BE Retained by Occupation {
Mind, Heart and Hands.

1t Can BE Retained by Occupation OF
Mind, Heart and Hands.
Few women realize that the secret of
retaining the animation of youth is
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 a per-
petual glow about some women; they
always impress you, as Helen Hunt said
of one of her heroines, as 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 it will
be found that every day in the lives of
this class has its appointed duties-not
a 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-
lieved herself suffering from nervous
prostration and sought famous physi-
sian. Madam, 1 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 home, but the
world is growing broader, and realizing
that those women conscious of member
ship in the great human family are its
valued helpers.
Women in the country grow old faster
than their city sisters, because of their
isolation from centers of activity, CEN
tors not of locality, but of thought.
1t was meant that heart and mind
should develop through 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 it, and to appreciate
the Importance of mental stimulus. In
deed, they are often more earnest than
the class by whom they are regarded as
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 so by
she must possess versatility, and to this
end she is an unfiagging 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 a
power she never had at twenty-five, and
has, withal, physical beauty which is
the wonder Of the uninitiated.
People who live upon tho material
mating impulse, are those who arc dull,
listless and aged before middle life is
reached. The men and women who
never grow old keep young because
tb cir pulses beat in sympathy with the
worlds great arteries; they are tho
ones remembered and honorei in the
social and literary world; and they are
those who make all life richer for hav.
ing lived.-Jenness-Millor Magazine.
On the ground of humanity, to put
1t no higher, the Government should
provide each of it's census enumeratorB
with neat placard bearing the follow,
| " legend printe. ON 1t In large and
plain letters Don't shoot tiie enumer.
ator; he is doing the best he uan."'-N.
Y. Tribune.