St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-07
TO KEEP YOUNG.
LETTERS FROM FAMOUS SEPTUA
AND OCTOGENARIANS ON
TO RETAIN ONES YOUTH.
SUSAN ID. ANTHONY GIVES GOOD
ADVICE TO YOUNG
WOMEN.
PROPER AGE FOR MARRIAGE.
Bishop CIark's Rules of Health
Daily Life of Herbert
Spencer.
PROPER AGE FOR MARRIAGE.
Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Car

Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G.. Car
penter.)
WASHINGTON, July A. How to
keep young-For the past ten years
/ have been getting advice from the
famous old people of the world upon
this subject 1 interviewed George
Bancroft upon it when he was in his
nineties, and he then told me he
could ride thirty miles day without
firing. / chatted with w. w. Corco-
ran as to this when he was eighty
nine, and President Harrison's faith
er-in-law, DR.. Scott, gave me his re-
ceipt for a working old age when he
was ninety-two. I know a dozen men
who have passed their three score
and ten, and who are famous in pub
lie life,who are still doing good work,
and Gov. Gear, the newly elected SEN
ator from Iowa, is hale and hearty
at seventy-five. / interviewed Cas-
sius NJ. Clay when he was over eighty
about three years ago upon this sub
ject, and since that time he has mar
ried a. young wife and has begun an
other existence. Lii Hung Chang told
me last summer how he divided his
work and sleep, in order to main
tain the wonderful vitality which he
showed at seventy-four, and 1 have
today number of letters and inter-
views with noted septua and octoge-
narians upon this subject These
letters have been accommodating for
some time. They are written by men
and women who have long since
passed their three score and ten,and
still their handwriting shows that
they have not lost their vigor, and
their words sparkle with the vital
ity of youth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
The first one give is from Susan
B. Anthony. She is now seventy-five,
but her blue eyes are full of life, and
her voice is as strong as it was
when she made her first public
speech, away back in 1S47 nearly half
a century ago. I sent her a list of
questions on the subject of perpet-
ual youth about a year ago. And
here are her answers, dated April 2S,
1894: ~
1.-THE course of life for a young
woman to lead, in order that she
may reach a working old age and
make the most of herself, is pre-
cisely the course of life that young
man should pursue for the same pur-
pose, and this has been so we'll in
Dictated by Phillips Brooks that 1
can do no better than to quote his
own words, as follows:
Ito be at work, to do things for
the world, to turn the currents of
the things about us at our will, to
make our existence a positive ele-
ment, even though it be no bigger
than a grain of sand in the great
system where we live-this alone is
to live. Long-lived people who keep
up their work to the last are the peo-
pie who have found out this secret,
namely, that congenial work is the
Joy of life"
HOW SHE KEEPS YOUNG.
One of my questions was as to
how Miss Anthony kept her wonder
full health and working power. Her
reply to this is as follows:
"a human being is born to think,
to will, to enjoy a liberty bounded
only by respect for the equal liberty
of others. To think ones self into
the realm Of perfect freedom of
thought; to possess and enjoy such
liberty of social action as is bound
ed only by the same liberty in others,
and to will with all ones power that
each units political liberty shall be
conceded and officially recognized
by each is to tread the natural path
of human development. Hence,
can but attribute my own extraor-
binary health and working powers
to the fact that 1 have chosen such
a course. AS machinery in action
lasts longer than machinery lying
idle, so a body and soul in active
exercise escapes the corroding rust
of physical and mental laziness
which prematurely cuts off so MANY
women's lives. If 1 am able to do
the work Of daily travelling and
Iecturing at over three score years
and ten L believe it to be simply be-
cause 1 have always worked and
loved work. AS to my habits of life.
1t will be plain from what 1 have
just said that it has been impossi-
Bile for me to have fixed rules for
eating, resting, sleeping, etc. The
only advice 1 could give a young
person on this point would be: Live
rs simply as you can. Eat what YOU
lind agrees with your constitution
when you can get it. Sleep when
ever you are sleepy, and think as
little of these details as possible
A WORD ABOUT MARRIAGE.
"You ask whether marriage is con.
duciVe to longevity and should women
marry young" Miss Anthony's lette,
continues Now, the answers to this
are plainly: That depends upon the
SPECIFIC case of marriage and upon
what you mean by young. In tho
Orient woman is considered ole
enough to marry at twelve In the DC.
cldent me average for marriage ranges
from twenty to twcnty-eight. I shoulG
consider twenty-five a good age for 2
woman TO marry, as by that time she
mas arrived at a reasoning stage. an6
is therefore in cond ton to make an in.
telligent choice among men. A mar
rage at this age, largely because it i,
likely to be made with some intelIi
gence, is more conducive to longeyit,
than child marriage Then, if it b,
marriage with husband who highl,
respects his wife's individuality, wht
treats her in all particulars as he him
self would wish TO be treated were h
woman Of fine spirit, of Independent