The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-24
Not Too Old at Forty.

best fitted for close mental and phys
ical work has been raised by the Won
derful endurance Of Commander
Peary, who at the age of So, has dis
covered the north pole.
Some interesting opinions have been
advanced by the heads of large bust
ness firms, medical men, and others
on the subject.
has exploded the too old at 40 bub-
ble.'' the manager of a famous engi~
neering firm told a representative of
the Daily Mail.
"It has been my experience that
mechanical engineers, so long es they
keep in good health, are much better
and more useful workers at SO than
are young men Of 25.
"In our employ we have many en-
gineers, doing hard. manual work,
whose ages are between so and 20.
They are thoroughly experienced
like younger men.
"Of course, with consulting engi-
neers their value increases as they get
older. provided, of course. they retain
their health and mental powers"
The manager of a big business said
for mental work from the age of 80
to As. Eat the age of As he should
have acquired sufficient experience to
superintend his juniors, and be a val
uaDl0 asset TO MS employers, ne Sdiu.
An experienced Harley street phys
ician said that the average man was
the fittest, mentally and physically,
between the ages Of 35 and As:
"By that age man should thor
oughiy understand himself-not only
knows or should know, how to diet
himself. how to keep an even level OF
good health and we'll being With a
sound constitution man can retain
his vigor ane mental powers until he
is 65 or 70."-London Mail.
Sharply Repulsed.
| The plump waiter girl at the lunch
counter having nothing to do at the
moment, was trying to reach with her
| finger nails a place on her back wei
up between the shoulders. but with
unequal to the task. In vain she
suuirmed and struggled and twisted
her face. She failed to achieve the
desired connection.
| The elderly man on the outside OF
| the counter. who had been fighting a
piece of overdone steak. leaned for
ward and spoke to her in low tone
| but with intense earnestness.
my dear, young woman" he said
| pardon the freedom of man VINO
has grandchildren almost as old as
you are. but If you will come little
closer 1 shall take pleasure in scratch
ing that spot for you, as I see that you
can't quite
Mind your own business" she
snapped. :.
| a good deed or generous impulse ap-
| preciated in this ungrateful world
Chicago Tribune.
Raise Snakes to XIII Rattlcrs.
/ While most people are killing
! snakes. Prof L. A. Adams. curator OF
| the state Normal school, is raising
them by hundreds. and will 1iberate
them in the fields about Greeley to aio
farmers in destroying mice and othel
/ field pests.
About 100 young serpents are thriv.
ing in the workroom of the museum
and as the yare harmless make inter
] esting studies for natural histor,
1 classes. Next month Prof Adams will
/ secure from Kansas specimens of tht
/ king and black snakes which are
| deadly foes of the rattlesnakeS Tht
/ young of these snakes will be lib
/ Grated to exterminate the dangeroui
rattIers. Farmers over the county ar
/ much interested in the experiments
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