Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-08-06


Joy-belike yiu'll never find an
other-or a fairer-or better.
1t is only little while, and we
pass this way but once. To re-
fuse the bright and beautiful and
lovable things of life is to dis
credit creation and become fu-
gitive from fate. And enjoy not
only the minute, but to remem-
ber-'twill be sweet solace some
time.
4 / give you the phychic secret:
Love life that you may live. Su-
perstition and SNUG caution, in
Guiding the proprieies, have laid
down certain rules for longevity.
Naturally, most of the com
mands are don't. We are told
that we must shun, check, avoid,
deny and abstain in everything,
including diet, democracy, defal-
cation, debt, doubt, distemper,
divorce and the flesh and the
devil. These rules are simple
enough, only they fetch a noise
like funeral. We can all score
our century and over with ease,
but with old-age achievement
goes this lobsterian life not
; worth living. No roses and rap.
tures-no cakes and ale-no sor-
row and sin and mighty little sal
vation-no warming of both
hands before the fire of Bohe-
mia, where red lips are ripe with
: wine and desire and laughing
, eyes tell the story old-no trans
, cendant joys or sacred griefs-to
= theaspiring centenarian who
: would follow the mossbackian
ritual only a mild an duniform
$ atmosphere is permitted. To eat
$ and drink as though it were fear
e some penitential function-to
r. wear khaki and wooden clouts
i and exist in the abstract-to
j make formal written request and
e then, if informed that she were
v willing to do a thirty days bread
d and water sanctification stunt
t before one could hold hands with
j. his own life-truly a riotously
S alluring scheme Of existence.
= The contention that it is not al
J. ways he who lives longest but
O most-that one can, if permit
q ted, know a million years in a
e minute-sure appeals in the face
l. of so chilling and inhuman a
It prospect of hyperodermic happi-
v ness. And yet always hid away
v somewhere in these mental anc
:. physical catacombs said to house
A. five score years and more is in
D. variably the phychic secret
f. that to enjoy long life one c1ust
= keep every vital organ in con
r slant working order and cult
n vate a hopeful, cheerful and busy
4 mentality. And herein we have
4 the real and only requisite rule
s. If you would quaff the nectar o.
It eternal youth, remain young il
If heart and hope. Enjoy you.
work and pleasure both. Tha
10 Spanish wanderer sought /;
: fountain whose waters ar
al everywhere. Activity of bod.
r and brain comprise all life essen
rs tials, and out of which mus
Ne come right and fruitful living
" Use comprise their first purpose
Is and thereafter all details of die
d and dress-aye, and department
W dyemoind-will settle them
ID selves, regardless of Pharisaica
n prohibition, sacredotal ethics O.
A. fine theories. Plan to live, wor
Mt to live and love your life-herei
ar the ideal fellowship and hygien
al of heaven.
Id Emerson, when he said tina
v. every sick man is villain, prot
w ably meant tina tthe villain is a
- ways man who is ill-voicin
at Huzley's more drastic declare
I'D ton that in the light of moder
&C. knowledge and advancemer
es physical and mental it can't
tn long before a sick man must (
* one of two erotic extremes
either a fool or a criminal. Ar
of from practical, if no other stan
ra- point, it is well to remember tn
of the mental conditions which go
IN ern success are precisely tho
ess which control health and hapl
a ness-that success sas much
nat creation of Observation-Disclosures