The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
ONE SECRET or LONG LIFE.
It is Economy of Foree-Husbaud Your
Resources.

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Resources.
Years following years steal something every
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
One great secret of long lifc-especial-
~ tor those. who are weakly-:iS economy
OF force. Husband your II rees, We who
would exceed nature S sO-calleu allotted
m This can only be lone by a realiz-
ing sense of the value Of these forces.
Put a value on your strength and get as
near a just estimate as possible. Use
it, but use it intelligently, so as to make
every output oun for something, yea,
for what there is in it!
One can arrive at a point nearest per-
lection in this by getting acquainted
with the world by experience, and with
themselves by a study of the elmer
"The proper study Of mankind is man."
and the statement hints a good deal Of
victory in the battle Of life. TO '"know
thyself" is to take advantage of life's
"stern realities" so effectually that all
tribulations lose their force, being kept
under foot, never rising to disturb seri-
'ously the head and heart, rthus to sap
the springs Of life before their time to
go dry. "
Use we'll the forces of today;
Tomorrow they depart
' To join a force invisible
Wrapt up in Natures heart.
The fountain that today is flush,
Tomorrow may be dry, s.
if we ruthlessly waste the springs of
life.
The scorching of the head and heart
by the whitening drouth of life's desert
places is a giant factor in thwarting the
purposes of life by shortening life itself.
The golden bowl' should be broken.
0nIv INV tho h0na Of f;yno. Tho ttuvLool ~
the cistern" should wear out. while the
pitcher at the welr' should exist to
convey it's full share of water.
Conservation of energy should be the
motto Of the long life hunter. The idea
the old idea-that a person invariably
dies "when his time comes" limiting at a
hanging about it, end only this: Every
machine, whether man-made Or God
made, has a definite amount of wear it
can withstand. If accident: Or careless
ness destroys a machine, its time" can
not properly be said to have come, be-
iai It runs ~ Ha smo @oa Iet tin It's T beari1 ogs' e 3ve
out from actual wear, then has its
h'time''' come. Man is a machine physlc-;
ally, and may be looked at largely in
the light OF other machines. Alas, how
few human machines exist till their
time comes" judged hy this standard,
and very much of the fault lies at the
door Of the engineer. If he is an igno-
rant or a greedy engineer, or a selfish and
worldly one, he runs his machine through
on forbidden time, which means a
wrecked machine, with a deal of respon-
sibility resting Oh someone who for. one
reason or another has Numbered in life's
battle.
On the other hand, if the machine is
run in%telligently, with a careful hand, it
always looks trim, does effective work..
grows more and more beautiful with ad.
vancing age yielding gracefully to the
strains of activity; yielding so gradually
that it's spent forces cease their .manifes-
tation silently without the clatter of IT.
regularly worn bearings, which give out
day.-Dr. A. P. Reed in Ladies's World.