The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-19
INVITING OLD AGE.
some OF THE WAYS IN WHICH WON.
EN- LOSE THEIR YOUTH.
Mothers NEGLECT Their Own Needs In E1-
aEgerated Devotion to the Children.
Those who Claim the Immunities of Age
when Only In the Midday Of Life.

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when Only In the Midday Of Life.
The oldest woman | ever knew was 2S.
II marriage the graces Of girlhood passed
forever from her life. Economy became
the god enthroned on every altar of her
home. Ruffies and ribbons were the
insignia of levity and extravaganza.
Dresses robbed of a yard or two grew
ungracefully short and narrow. Books
and papers We're regarded as luxuries-
not necessities. An hour spent in read
ing left a feeling Of guilt for wasted time.
Devotion to Will and the children"
came to mean self assumed slavery
Luster left the eve. elasticity the frame.
Through IA mistaken sense Of duty she
grew unkempt. narrow souled. repulsive.
It has been said that the trl,e age is what
we look and feel. have known sweet.
fresh faced women Of 20 who were
younger thar She.
In the great middle class of America
the wife too often invite age by concen-
trating all ambition il money getting
To save the wages of servants she de.
stroys the JOY Of life the ~buoyancy Of
health. Pushing the -rowing daughter
to the front. she see less and less OF
society. dresses witt increasing plain.
ness and sinks 10 a household drudc"
self made and value at her own esti-
mate.
T~hirty-fiye has no more right to the
styles and tone Of % than to those of /.
The appropriation of the one is scarcely
less ridiculous than the assumption Of
the other. Far better than the ex,~ll.
sive boarding school is the example %
the mother in imparting to the daughter
the fanltless taste of dress. the genti-
fepose of name the gracious spirit 80
admirable in woman. a part of the
money devoted to the education of tie
daughter would be well spent in proc,.r.
ing to the mother the time for self cul.
ture. As the fair. snowy page is moi so
useful or beautiful as the one written
with pure, uplifting thought. SO the i'm.
mature nIi1en Is less valuable to home
and society than the ripe. cultured wonl-
an.
People of 40 and so should not shelve
themselves and claim the %immunities OF
age. They are in the midday Of life: the
time for the exercise Of knowledge,
power, grace and beauty, for the up
lifting of humanity. These gifts may
be enhanced by dress and tanner. The
influence of the attractive. self respect
ing wife, mother. sister or friend is more
potent for good than that Of the one witt,
neglected person and unlovely mind.
Discomfort invites age. INDUCING the
unrest of the dissatisfied is destructive
to looks and temper. In his Story of Il
Country Town" Mr.. f. W. Howe say
BE contented if it kills You" The adj
vice Is not So bad as it looks. Content
ment and ~stagnation are not necessarily
Synonymous. One may be free from
worry while striving for higher planes
or work. Woman should nave the cour
age of repose. 1t is infinitely better than
the morbid conscientiousness that goads
to endless toll. Effective work requires
effective rest.
Jndicious mental work may help to
lift n out of the ruts Of premature old
age. Read and think Of what YOU read
Don't use your mind as if il were a
sieve and you We're trying to see how
much you could pour through it. There
- " . 'hidHt tha'
gained at all, must be acquired in youth
Fallacious theory! Behold Galilei az
threescore and ten pursuing his studies
with unfiagging zeal. Cato beginning
Greek when advanced in years. Ogilby
commencing classical studies when past
80. Gladstone is as much the student
today as when the bloom of youth mai
tied his cheek.
Be kind to the feelings and fancies of
youth. II they prove perennial. SO much
the better. Don't forbid yourself glad,
recreative thought and action. Don. he
ashamed to make yourself as pretty as
you can. A sensible woman may feel a
thrill of pleasure innocent as a maiden's
when receiving a glance of respectful
admiration from a manly man. Smile
without affectation, be pleasant without
being silly-in short, be young as long as
you can.-Alva Rose in Kate Fields
Washington.
Cradles Id of Years Ago.