The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-08
KEEPING YOUNG.

number Of we'll known septuagenarians as
to show to keep your youth" AS usual
with such symposiums the opinions,
based on experience are more various
than they would probably be IL based on
theory.
To select two of the responses because
the authors are particularly we'll known
in Rhode Island shall be our pleasant
duty. Miss SUSAN b. ANTHONY is 20
years old, but her eyes are bright and her
voice is strong. Miss ANTHONY says: "a
human being is born to think, TO will, 10
enjoy liberty bounded only by respect
for the equal liberty Of others. To think
ones self into the realm of perfect free
dom of thought, to possess and enjoy
such liberty of social action as is bounded
only by the same liberty in others, and
TO will with all ones power that each
units political liberty shall be conceded
officially recognized by each, is to tread
the natural path OF human development.
Hence, can but attribute my own extra
ordinary health and working powers to
the fact that have chosen such a course.
AS machinery in action lasts longer than
machinery lying. idle, SO body and soul
in active exercise escapes the orroding
rust of physical and mental laziness,
which prematurely cuts off so many
women's lives.
''You ask whether marriage is condu-
Give TO longevity and should women
marry young" Miss ANTHoNY's letter
continues. "Now, the answers to this
are plainly; that depends upon the spe-
cific case of marriage and upon what you
mean by young. In the Orient woman
is considered old enough to marry at II.
In the Occident the average age for mar
riage ranges from 20 to 2s. should con-
slider 25 good age for a woman to
marry, as by that time she has arrived at
a reasonable stage, and is therefore In
condition to make an intelligent choice
among men"
Miss ANTHONY evidently believes that
the matter of long life and keeping young
are not dependable on marriage or non-
marriage. She is probably right.
The supposition that human be-
ing cannot really be happy outside
the welded state Is probably
subject to so many exceptions that it is
not rule and, often enough, the welded
state leads only to unhappiness. Hard
work'and plenty Of 1t is, we believe, uni
versally accepted provision for keeping
the wholesomely built body and mind in
a good state OF preservation. Miss
ANTHoNY's opinion was expressed thus a
little over year ago. Our beloved Bishop
CLARK, of the Episcopal diocese, also
wrote an opinion al about the same time,
and the thought is there expressed that
work is the secret OF health. Bishop
CLARK was then SO, we believe. He was
graduated from Yale College when An
DREW JACKSON was still I'm his first Presi-
Dental term, and he was licensed to preach
as Presbyterian clergyman before VAN
BUREN got the Presidency. Soon after
this he dropped Presbyterianism and be-
came an Episcopalian, and he was made
the bishop Of Rhode Island more than
forty years ago.
The Bishop wrote: $50 far as 1 know,
with the exception Of stiffness in the
joints, which prevents me from walking
long distances, am as strong and well as
j ever have been. / am able to keep all
my appointments, at home and abroad,
and to work with entire freedom-in in fact,
have done more visiting within the
last six months than in any other half
year of my life.
<ho w my ONh lNisohoA Il
smoked tobacco faithfully for fifty years,
and then, seven or eight years ago, 1
abandoned 1t altogether, on the
ground that did not care to be
q slave Of such habit any
longer. j have not been a total abstainer,
except for certain limited periods, when
i thought that the welfare Of Others re-
quired it. have been accustomed to
sleep as other people do and without Civ
ing much thought to It, In fact, scru-
pulous regard for sanitary rules and
special attention to bodily health have
never interested me very much.
"In regard TO nssSriage as conducive to
and everything else that is good
and desirable, / think that every able
bodied man who has the means OF sup
portinU a fornily IA un1ar ,,nraI ,bi;o.