Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-20
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The Art Of Remaining Young.

7 ITH the passing of the years, most of III believe that we must grow
lMI old. And by growing old we les the coming of decreptude to
w stn; our joints creak; u sight falls; possibly our hearing also
is the condition to which many look forward with resignation. believing
it is inevitable.
But here and there ar shining examples of those who, though they
show no such condition either of mind n body. They are alert, active,
both physically and mentally. They are doing more than a ordinary
days work every day in the year. Life is richer. fuller, more interesting
than it was at twenty-five. And since this is the case for them, does it
not point to the fact that 1t might hold good for others, did We under
stand how it had been brought about.
The vel+known writer, Marian Harand, is an illustration of this
uneonquerable youth. Is e1ghty-one years 81 go or thereaoouts
and, at everybody knows, has led a busy life. So that If she sat with
folded hands now, 1T would eem only the expected thing for her ITO do.
But does she sit with folded hands, Those who know her we7
thus describe her day: She rises ct sx-thirty, and does two hours liter
luncheon, and about two hours or work in the afternoon. Then she
dons her hat and HES to club meetings. teas O other social affairs among
10 nore than +nonsand 1sItnrs aa sha p esns +hrsos scrat,ri husv and
has innumerable club and charitable interests. She is a good deal younger
than many a woman of thirty, though she is eighty-one.
Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, who died a short time ago, another such
itoa second edition within three weeks as written when she was eighty
She was the mother OF sever children, and was left absolutely destitute
after the Civil War. So extreme, in fact, as her need that she had to
pawn tewelry to secure money for the very necessities of life. So her life
was n o easy one. She did n O. bee1p writing until after she was sixty nine.
And these last year, of her life we're full OF those activities that of
us believe re only for youth.
There are many other wellknown examples If an active and useful
he long after the threescore and tel milestone has been passed. And
II this is possible for some. why Is it not possible for all? If they have
some wonderful elixir of youth can VIC not by studying heir hVes dis
But when we study their lives the only thing to note about them,
that ia lot common to all as the years advance, is that these youns-old
people keep their minds employed and Interested Is the years slip by. In
lhe affairs of the world. as they we're at twenty. They eve lose this
Interest. They ever cas- to keep their mind employed. Consequently
And 1t does seem that by keeping the mind young, they keep the body
goung, and SO demonstrate the theory. which many today assert, that the
hls Of the body enter 1t through the mind.
At any rate. their lives are tangible proof that IT Is possible to be
us who are looking forward to old age with dread, as the season when W q
must descend the hill into the shadows, should take heart of hope from
these lives. make up minds not to grow old. and follow this resolution
with the practical work neoessary,-that of keeping mentally In touch and
Interested in all the big, helpful movements and life Of the day.
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