Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-03-11

10 retire from work and have good
rest. If | live ten years more L lntehu
IN hand over the business to the boys
and Just turn myself out to grass ana
do nothing but play and play and play
know if | can stop work | can i've
longer and have a good time besides.
Is that your idea of the way OF spend
ing vour years when you pass the three
score milestone? Well, my friend, II
that is your expectation OF spending
YOUR life when your hair has become
silyered | tell you you will be doomed
70 bitter disappointment. In the hrst
place. you will not have a good time IL
YOU stop working. In the second place.
II Won stop working, instead of prolong-
ing your life, as you expect, you VIII
shorten it by many years. nave rare
lv seen II fail where a man voluntarily
gives up work so that he can pass
lazy old age that he is n miseraDly un-
happy being and finds premature
crave And | have rarely found II 10
fail if an old man branches out III new
work that the years Of his earthly LIE
are increased.
Uard Work and Long Life.
As n rule. the greatest thinkers ana
the hardest mental workers in the
| world have been among the longest
lived men. Study the long list OF men
old in years. but young in heart, branch
ing ont into new work when at seventy
wears or beyond. Marden, In his book
"Pushing to the Front" has marvei-
ous collection Of Illustrations In refer-
ence TO this fact. Dandolo, the doge OF
Venice was warrior who led his SOL
diers in battle at ninety-four and was
offered a crown at ninety-siX Titan
ot ninety-nine was struck down WIN
the cholera in Venice when he was at
work on one of his canyases. rope
loo XIII. at ninety three was the most
noverful personality in all Europe
both on account of his pontifcal throne
and his own powerful mental equip
ment. When an American Dishop salu
n him "Your holiness, we hope COO
NAV let you live to become centena-
rion" the pope answered. MY friend
do not try to limit the power OF GOO
I EXPECT to be as hard at work atter
am n hundred years old as am now.
DIR. Samuel Johnson wrote his greates'
bool, when nearly eighty. James Wat'
learned German when he was eighty
, eve Isaac Newton and Benjamin
Franklin were hard at work on scien
tiac subiects when over eighty. Lore
polmerston and William E. Gladston'
, wore both prime ministers OF Engiah,
NJ fourscore years. Robert HAN
, rovs Marden. Learned Italian whe'
:. mast sixty. Noah Webster mastere'
sovanteen languages after he was hfty
And some Of the best works OF hons
= follow Whittier and Tennyson Wer
: written after they were seventy.
Aged friend, the reason you ar
, Growing old and withering up IS D'
= cause YOU have stopped branching ou
Won have taken in sail and are dril
= ing simply drifting, toward the rocA
= Of death and drifting fast. 1aKe
:, new lease of life by taking a new ihte
% est IN things Study, study stuu'
~ Work work. work. Go and hear ever
- fine singer and every good speaker an
= road every new book that you cal
. Tho most foolish law the United Stat'
,s government ever made was when 1t {
- tablished old soldiers homes whel
~ tho old veterans of the civil war cou
On and live and do nothing. II an o
- soldier is physically helpless then'
- course he should be cared for. But
~ wen soldier In Danville, ILL.,, or San
- Monica. Cal. or Milwaukee, WIS,
" tho old Soldiers home in Washingt'
- should be encouraged to work IL he
~ able to Stagnation means prematu
death mental and physical as well
u spiritual 1T is better to wear o
u. than TO rust out" Is poor MAXI
al We have no right to do either. But
:" would tell those who are coming
H. toward old age there is more dang
:" for most of US Of rusting out thah
,tr wearing out.
-. Don't Talk of Troubles
~ r1ou, ebould we renew the streng
- Of Young manhood? By never talk
~. ohout our ailments or misfortuhes
we con avoid it. If the rheumatl'
IT, IT, will pull at our nerves end sweii
,Io Joints. then as far as possible 90
~ mention it. If the holidays bring
sad memories, then if we must
>" let us 90 to our rooms and have &C
~ crv alone. but not before others
0'' we were once wealthy and some
friends of better days will now d.
ion nothing TO do with us, then do not K'
1th burdening those who are still 1alth
us to rs with our never ending tales
lies WOO The most common sense
ege scription ever saw ritten by p
est sician was not to be taken in sn
len. Mills but in knockdown doses.
ose nrescription was sign placed IN
Sc rotunda of a large sanitarium III
stu central part of New York state.
the was In a most conspicuous Posit
ere where all the patients could see IT,
RAJ read thus: Don't talk about your p'
usn a and your ailments"
ltu- doctor. why did you put that
lted NM" I asked. "Why," said he, u
lost sign has cured more of my pati
hau than any twenty prescriptions
neu wrote. Every morning my SICK pc
hey would come down and greet each o
rely AS follows: Good morning! How 90
nts. feel7 Did you sleep we'll last night
in your headache betterT Then the
ex- son accosted would begin to rene
CHI all the hours she lay awake and all
who pains she had. By the time she
soon through the story her pains W
70 Of again begin to gnaw and her nerve
were twitch and she was on the way tc
rhus other sleepless night. Don't talk a
and your ailments. 1t Is by talking a
the troubles of old age that we Incl
,lties those troubles"