The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-05

are encouraging to those who desire
to live long and look their test all
the time. Happily for us we live in
time when old women are scarce.
We keep young, and ours is evident
ly not the only period in the worlds
history when youth has not had it
all Its own way. Helen of Troy did
not elope with Paris till she was over
forty, and must have retained her
beauty long after that, for years after
her husband received her back with
joy.
Perhaps the most poignant anguish
a pretty woman knows is when she
finds that her charms have waned-
in nine cases out of ten because she
has let them go. Ninon de lEnclos
was wiser. For three generations she
fascinated the youth of France, and
some of the most successful toilet
preparations and secrets for the
preservation of life and beauty we
owe to her. At seventy-two we hear
of the Able Bernis falling in love
with her; but then, she cultivated
her mind as we'll as her beauty, and
her sprightly wit contributed to her
charms. When women find that they
are becoming stodgy, inclined to sit
quietly and become unduly fat they
should bestir themselves. They are
eating too much, or, at all events,
not digesting what they eat.
Diet has everything to do with
good looks and long life. What we
do not digest clogs the system. We
are thereby bringing poison into our
bodies and filling up our veins, and
1t is this that stops the working
powers which we call life. The mind
keeps the body active, the talents
and the members that we neglect
become inactive. We let ourselves
go, we imagine we cannot do many
things that are perfectly within our
reach, and so we insensibly allow
ourselves to grow old, says the
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Those who wish to live long
should cultivate happiness as a duty;
watch their hair, their teeth, and
their skins with a view to keeping
them in a perfectly healthy. active
condition, and above all the teeth,
because unless food is properly mas
ticated, it is doing harm rather than
good. Keep off the use of false teeth
to the last possible moment, and
never have tooth out that can pos
sibly be kept in. If you find they are
falling out sound and good, as they
will do, bestir yourself and see what
medicines you are taking and in
which of them mercury is disguised.
Do not make a habit of taking
things too hot or too cold; both are
bad for the teeth. Do not cover the
hair up or keep parting in the same
place, or strain and tie too tightly.
1t is far easier to preserve hair in
health and the skin in good condi-
tion than restore them, and as a rule
you require good and constant advice
from those who have made a study Of
the subject.
Early rising is conducive alike to
health, beauty and longevity, but it
must be early to bed II early to rise.
You cannot burn the candle at both
ends. Too much sleep is as bad as
too little, but too little exhausts
vitality, and as the years creep on
a little wise resting now and then
without doubt prolongs life.
Exercise should be persevered in,
even against the grain. At all stages
1t is we'll to be merry, active, inter-
ested, and as the years accumulate
the duty is just as imperative. as we'll
as taking every aid to beauty into
active consideration. Pittsburg
Press.