The Van Buren press., 1895-09-07
KEEPING YOUNG.
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The desirableness of keeping young
rarely crosses the mind OF those who
are now young. They see others about
them who have lost their bloom, en-
broidered their first wrinkles, showed
themselves under with white hair; but
they have always been surrounded
with people older than themselves; 1t
is part OF life, a feature of the world,
for these others to be old; but for their
part, they have always been young.
And in some unexpressed way, prob
ably the natural feeling of the immor-
tai being, they always expect to be
young. Whether their expectation Is
realized depends almost altogether
upon themselves. They.think no more
about it, however, till the first gray
hair comes like an admonishing ghost
upon the scene At seventeen they
were of the opinion that the first
thing in the world was beauty.
But at thirty-fve they find it
is better to be young than to be beau
tiful. And it very often happens that
the girl who was quite beautiful, with
vivid color and sparkling eyes and
fruity flesh and dimples, when not
quite twenty. finds herself at forty
with none of these, and neither young
nor beautiful. Yet if she were really
fine and fair at twenty, Then as-forty
she has right to be fine and fair still;
she should hardly have gone off at all.
1t matters far less than you can make
her-now believe that her eyes may be
sunken little, that the line from the
nostril to the corner of the lip may
have become marked, that the color
may be less persistent, that the dimple
may show symptoms OF becoming
something deeper; under certain
conditions all that is hardly notice.
able. II she has kept tkc spring
that used to animate every motion,
So that she moves now with as
lights step, as erect a bearing. with as
quick grace, holds her head still like
flower atop ofits stem, straight and
strong, yet without the least affecta-
tion of Juvenile froicking ways, she
will give only the suggestion OF youth
whenever she stirs. If she goes slow
and tagging, with stoop and signs OF
WEAKNESS, she will have an arm offered
her, and 1t will be understood that she
bears weight of years and needs it.
If she dresses still in the tints and
stuffs that suit her best, not with
youthful frivolities, but with no sign
of surrender to age, she will have the
effect of still belonging to the forces
whose uniform she wears. But if she
wears sad and dull colors, relinquish-
ing with reluctance last years styles,
and with but little regard to styles
anyway, she will be taken at her own
valuation. More still, and of more val
ue than the other considerations,
if she still interests herself in the
things that interest youth, has saved
herself from the criticizing and con.
demnatory manner which years some
times give to ones view of life, SO that
the young still find her companion
able, she not only affects others as be-
| ing young but feels at fifty scarcely a
day older than ever. , If, meanwhile,
she has taken also to heart practice
of seeing only the brighter side oi
things of forgetting herself and re
membering others, oflooking into the
next life as into further stage OF the
delights of this, she has filed her life
and her soul with pity and compassion
and tenderness, with love Of God and
of her fellow-beings-age, even when
it brings, white hair, and withered
throat and dropping cheek, will seen
not to have any trail of eld, but rather
70 be a different and beautiful youth
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