The Adair County news., 1914-11-04
CURE FOR old ACE
Easy and Pleasant and Costs buE
Little to Try 1t.
GOOD WAY TO CHEAT DEATH.


The Prescription Is to Mix Open All
and a Hobby, Shake Well and Take a.
Many Hours Day or Night as Poe
sibIe-The Cure In Real Life.
Old age can be cured The prescrip-
don is a ample one. Mix open air an(s
a hobby, shake well and take as many
hours a day as possible. No one be
gins to age until he is bored, and tbs
arst gray hair comes when a man SUD
denly thinks to himself, What's ths-
use?" Then is the time when a hObb-,
makes life interesting again
There was an official on one Of OUT
great railroads who was retired at sew
enty. He'll die now," said his friendz
kindly. But he didn't Instead, he be-
came interested in the wild flowers
and now be is too busy in looking f0E
the rams head orchid and trying tos
find a new station for the hart's tongue
fern and tramping around in the woods.
/ and fields in all kinds of weather ever
"
| not have time until he's finished his
! monograph on the willows of the Unit
/ ed States.
! There is woman in Baltimore, se7s-
! enty-two years old, who years agCs
! sought to forget a great sorrow by
/ learning the butterflies. Her city honS'
has become Il rendezvous for entomolo-
| gists all over the world and houses G.
| famous collection. While her conteIs-
i poraries are doing their lives away liz
caps and easy chairs she spends her
| summers In the mountains and hels
winters in Florida with butterfly net
| Twenty-One new species to identify
are her contribution to the lepidoptera
and she, plans to live until the last
goal of an entomologist is reached
the using of her single initial species;
| An octet of men in Philadelphia, a.
! well past their threescore years, soms-
In business and some foot loose, be-
long to the same pathological soeie-
ty. They are afield every day OF the
year, rain or shine, to watch the ever
changing bird life. In the spring each
prepares migrant sheets showing the.
arrivals of the hundred odd migrants
that pass through every place every
year. There is great rivalry as to whC
shall score the most warblers or ideH-
hfy the largest number of birds in one
day. At present writing the oldest or
the eight holds a record of seventy
FIVE different kinds of birds seen or
heard in one day between dawn and
dark-one for each year of his age and
one to grow on
A man in North Carolina by the sue
, den death of two of his family was
left alone with but little money, Ne
friends and the cheering dictum from.
his doctor that he had only year
: live. To while away the few month .
still left to him as we'll as TO help Gu
his household expenses he took MP III
study Of edible mushrooms. AZ tn6
end of a year in the open he notified
his indignant physician that ne haG
become too much interested in his
7 hobby to confirm his diagnosis. In ten
years he has discovered, classified and
tested 40 kinds of edible mushrooms
and has published a book which is one
| VI Iue LUZ AuuSli-
room eaters Of the world.
Another septuagenarian attributes his
long life to the stars. Confined e
business during the day, he sought the
open air at night and began to study
/ he changing consultations and the per
picking planets Then he found that
with an opera glass he could detecC
heir cOlorS and reveled in the blue
{ light of Vega. the green glare of Sirius.
he rose red of Aldebaran, the flame.
dior Of Retelguese and the strange
-hades of other cleaning sky kings
I Finally he bought small telescope.
t Now at seventy. be has published IL
monograph on the double stars, besides
! quaint little star guide that mas .iI
, | crested thousands in his hobby
None of the nature studies requires
uuch money or sine \ cheap illus
rHIpd guidebooB. an opera glass and.
puSSible. some walks and talks with,
~ expert. and you viii learn almCsE
Immediately to identify score or more
}. flowers. or birds. or consultations,
n mushrooms. and you will have found.
hobby on which You may ride away
from Death
Try it. young men. lest you grow old
fry it. old men, before you grow tired
Escape into the open from these mar
row indoor days and learn the way tcr
where the wild folk dwell In their
: land you will find the help Of the hills
and hope wide as the world, and
strength. and youth, and happiness.
Try it.-Samuel Scoville. Jr. in Lippinr
otis