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

girls called grownup men ana women
And. my friend. II you ever want 10
have that old wthered heart of yours
beat and throb with happiness. this IS
what you need to do: Gather all the
babies. the boys and the girls OF your
neighborhood, together, pile them into
n wagon if you are out in the country,
leave your wife and the nurse at home
or at least make them ride along in an
other vehicle, and then by the grace or |
God you go forth and learn one OF the
mightiest lessons of life-how to keep |
young by bearing part of the joys ana
the sorrows of the young.
Do you know how Thomas Chalmers
was able to accomplish his great work
Of life? He always kept his heart
Young and fresh and loving by assocl-
oting with the young. His daughter,
Helen Chalmers, told my father that
during the darkest days of the Free
church controversy he would spenu
part of each day in playing with lhe
children in the house or hying Kles
with the boys upon Edinburgh com
mon. DO you know how Walter scott
kent his heart young? He always
sought the companionship of the young
He continually had his children or oth-
or neople's children about him. NO
more beautiful word picture was ever
drawn by authors pen than a descrlp'
tion of that love by John Brown. In
that essay the great author OF "hehli-
worth" is pictured going through tne
snow and the sleet to his nelghDors
homes and there bundling up Marjorie
Flominc. q little girl of five or six sum-
mors In her shawl or his cloak ne
carries her back to his study. Ihere'
while his pen runs rapidly over the
nooes of his immortal books, Marjorie
chatters on. Study Eugene tlelu anu
his love for little children. STUDY the
lives of our authors like Longfellow
and orr preachers like Beecher ana our
merchants like Cooper and our eiec-
tricions like Morse and our editors IKE
Greeley and our presidents ike WIZ
liam Mckinley - you Will ma 'na''
without exception, they kept young py
taen,ne in touch with young people,
The Influence of Children.
70 7 did not have any babies or my
ovn 7 would adopt some. No man eau
dofv the inroads Of time unless he con
t,nually associates with the young loiks
"yybot would an engine be in snip II
II were lying loose in the nun s"iu
peecher. ut must be fastened 10 II
With bolts and screws before IT car
nronel the vessel. Now, a chlldies'
Nan ia like loose engine. n maj
must be bolted and screwed 10 un'
community before he can work "eii lo
, ,+s advancement. and there are no sucl
scravs and bolts as children" mat Il
+rro There is no screw or Dolt lha
holds man to the duties of life hrne
than the children But | go even lu'
thor than did Mr.. Beecher. l hold ina
tbora are no influences more eheclua
: 70 keep us young while we are PEI
= forming those duties than these sam
y little ones. The best way TO see III
.unheoms dance is to watch tnel
through the danC. eyes OF ii't'
child The best way to smootn out
tho wrinkles of old age Is to bury thei
in the dimpled cheek of smiling oaO
= cIrI The best way to send the Dloo
. coursing through the withered arteri'
= ~ threescore years is to play Did
- mans huff" or "hide and seek VIII
= - the bows and girls after the supper u
= ble is cleared and the school iessoi
:, bove heen learned. The best way
~ GROW Young is to associate with u
:" - Young. God pity you if you cam ann,
=, find any enjoyment In making u
- SHOWS of December melt betore u
,o life giving rays of May or June.
~ How shall we renew youth? BY col
~ nelIing our minds year in and year o
70 seek new fields for mental and nor
,r and spiritual investigation ana ne
- onnlications for doing our regular woi
,a hv forcing ourselves to take up ne
ho lines of study. by saying to ourseiV'
re '.Though l may live to be hfty or SIN
re or seventy years of age, yet VIII III
IN or cease to be a student, and "
m. mover cease to be interested in the
cd vancement which is going on all arou
mr. me-" Yet we find the strange fact u
Nh many men after they have made III
ON erccess in one line of work as a r
.on ore satisfied with that success, ana
nd cause they are satisfied they Del
nv n wither and shrivel up and gradus
NV 20 into mental and physical decaden
gh How They Became Fossils
ty, This mental and physical depict
7ill which comes from being satisfied W
my q mast success cannot be better Ill
my trated than by some of the tacui'
VS. of our old colleges. Now, the coii
lily faculties Of both the east and the W
wore originally made up of picked IL
pie, The presidents and trustees OF III
IN institutions in almost every case
mt lected the very brightest ana Dese
oes donts of their classes. They were
nat honor men Of the colleges VINO "
rlst asked to fill the honored protesso
'eo- chairs. But, marvellous to say aitho
du- the college faculties of the old INST
u tons in my day had been recru
US from the brightest men, yet ain
uer without exception those faculties
l.ns n large percentage of men who seer
lnls to be simple relics Of the past. L
Ut seemed to be mummified men, entl
ors out of touch with present day eve
They were walking "cube roots OF
one carnated "dative cases" or petritied
'ous amples of Doric or Corinthian al
my lecture. They seemed to be men
ice had learned one thing well, but as
we as they had mastered that one III
the study all their mental faculties
you! then allowed to become dormant.
han they withered up into a fossilized
nave embalmed old age.
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