Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-12
ICoNrlNrED NEXT WEEK. |
THE WAY TO OLD AGE.
What Fleet IL Change of Economic Cond
ti"n> May Have ON Human Longevity.

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| ti"n> May Have on Human Longevity.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: 81
notice that Edward Everett Hale has
discovered. il not the fountain of
youth, wherein the wrinklcd scptua-
gcnarian may bathc and come forth
an ever young Apollo, ut least the
secret of Keeping young at 90" said
DICK Farkcnthal. as he turned the
leaves of a periodical at the Lindell.
"ll2 says: Never work after 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, and sleep ten hours
IN every lwcnty-tour. The trouble is
that under present economic condi-
tlons, thcavcragc man who attempted
! that regime would Starvc to death
before touching thirty. Eut that is
the fault of the economic conditions.
not of Mr.. 1lales prescription In
the 'uincS> OF time, when tie profess
siona! rcformcr has hcen chokcd o!l
and the common ssnSc of the masses
mas an opportunity to assert itself.
social conditions may be so adjusted
That 1T Will not be necessary to swing
back un the 1uwlne ten or twelve
hours a day in order to land a bare
living. There is possibility that
the world will one day learn / hat good
health and a ripe old age are far pre-
4 1crable to Il hoard Of useless gold and
Il gaudy tombstone adorned with a
| lying inscription. But lGaing and
| sleeping viii not themselves keep a
man young. 1t is worry that kills.
Worry ages man more rapidly than
hard work. 1t is wor y tina, chisels
wrinkles in his face, saps his nervous
energy, shrivelS his heart aud makes
| him old before his time. When
economic conditions are So improved
| That the average mortal will not | G
kept ever on the anxious seat: when
he can feel assured that reasonable
efforts will WELD him a comfortable
| living. the efficient causcuf much of
the worlds worry will have been re-
moved. When a higher education
| has made plain the folly Of fortunes:
when the race has progressed beyond
the thousand petty jealousicS and
heart burningS that now sweep ii like
hot simoons, shrivcling and blasting:
when the true significance of life is
once well understood, and those
sitting weeds. vanity and false amhi-
ton. have been routed ont of the
human garden: when the laws Of
health are as we'll understood as the
cdic,s Of fashion, and philosophy has
robbed death of it's terrors when. in
short. the struggle for existence
becomes less bitter, and The worries
of life are reduced to IA minimum
then may men be hale and hearty
until they have passed not only the
three score and ten mark but until
well into the second century. Then
may the prime Of woEanhood hc
sixty instead Of thirty. and Sar;ilI's
motherhood in her old age appear no
longer a miracle
There are 5000 cOUrcd unicchodcrs
at present. They are employed in
various capacities, and their pay
ranges from that OF Hon. Blanche X.
Bruce, recorder of deeds for the
District of Columbia, who gets SIS 600
a year. down to the laborcr at a
| dollara day. There are Il number Of
cOlored young men in Washington
who have graduated from Il literary
college aud taken degrees in law and
medicine besides. There is Il great
field for these educated colOrcd men
if they have the heroiSm to work in
| it. Before them stand their race in
pititul ignorance and poverty The
educated negro who should be among
those of his own color and leach
them to be thrifty. honest and
industrious, showing them how they
might advance themselves in cdu-
cation and prosperity, would be truly
the Moses of his people. When the
negro has learned self respect lie will
begin to be treated with respect by
white people.
Alcohol must not be taken AZ the
noon luncheon hour by brain workers,
says a food journal. any bus ness
man wants to do important work in
the afternoon, lie must not cat I,
heavy noon meal. And IL plate of
thick soup is better than piece OF
pie for a light lunch.
Miss Mary }. Cunitlc has been post
master at Las Cruces, y. NJ, for over
ten years and has just been recon.
hrmcd. The New Mexican says that
She has conducted the Office in an