Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-04-24
What Will You Choose?

Mime. Patti has preserved her youth
and her golden voice to past the age Of
fifty. For twenty-five years she has
been the queen of song. How does she
do it? She has no social relaxation be-
yond that of an ordinary farmer, though |
she does not begin to work so hard. She |
never makes a night of it" for that
would ruin her voice. She takes plenty |
of sleep, plenty of exercise in the open
air and eats the simplest food. Year
after year she pursues the same iron
regimen as to her mode Of living, never
allowing herself to feel even an emo
ton violently, lest it crack her voice
and bring fabby fold to her peerless
| throat.
There, too, is Lillian Russell, in her own
realm of song likewise unrivaled, and Civ
ing promise of remaining so as long as
| Patti has done. Lillian Russell has been
singing ten OF twelve years, and growing
handsomer and sweeter voiced year by
year. She is said now to be the most
beautiful woman in America. What
says Lillian Russell?
It is hard life, and the secret Of keeping it
up, II 1t is a secret, is in taking care OF ones
self One needs an iron constitution to start
with, and to fence it in with ironclad habits
get all the rest | can, am never UP later than
have to be, and am careful about eating and
drinking.
Besides that she, too, has regular ex-
ercise in the open air. She takes long
walks and horseback rides. No soldier
could live under more rigid discipline
and training Her food is likewise plain
One may mention also Gladstone, in
his eighty-third year, the leader of his
party and the greatest statesman in Eu-
rope Even his physical activity puts
to shame many man Of fifty. How
has Gladstone kept himself young and
e in his intellectual prime at eighty-two:
l. Again it is the same story, told so often
q as to grow tiresome the simplest food
1 eaten in very moderate quantity, regu
n lar habits, perfect cleanliness of the
J, skin and abundant exercise in the oper
g air. The woodchopper of England, with
z. his ascetic life, bids fair to outlast the
II great but equity and beer guzzling Bis
o marck, more than eight years younger
j. Patti, Lillian Russell and Gladstone havt
n chosen what they will have in this life
% and have been willing to pay the cost o
t. getting it.
n On the other side, several many mil
] l,t no anti WI
n gan life without a dollar They vowe
Dr. to become the possessors of immens
in wealth, to be the financial leaders Q
their generation. For this they toile
and schemed ceaselessly. They la
nj awake nights thinking how they coul
u. become richer than other men. The
90 were not always scrupulous in II
means used for increasing wealth. Ora
10 haired men, pauper widows, homeless
= children sometimes recall them wit
=. thoughts that are not blessings.
=, But these, too, got their wish The
80 are powers in the financial world. The
- have as much as the wealth of a who
~ state in their own possession. Yet Il
~ sleep they robbed themselves of, Il
-oi conscience they drugged in the da
III when they were poor, have their I
"y venge. Insomnia, dyspepsia, hyster
clutch them like furies; their eyesigt
their bodily activity fails them. Wi
an ruined health and restless souls tia
af- wander the earth over. Who sh;
DC know the memories, the regrets, tn
raj haunt theml They. too, made tbs
her choice and paid the cost
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