The daily Alaskan., 1914-08-18
CURE FOR OLD ACE
Easy and Pleasant and Costs but
 Little 10 Try It.
4 GOOD WAY TO CHEAT DEATH.

The Prescription Is to Mix Open Air
 and a Hobby Shake We'll and Take as
 Many Hours a Day or Night as Pos
 sibIe-The Cure In Real Life.
 Old age can be cured The prescrjp- aon Is a simple one. Mix open ulr and hobby, shake well and take as many hours a day as possible. No one be- gins to age until he is bored, and the first gray hair comes when man sud denly thinks to himself, "Whats the use?" Then is the time when hobby makes life interesting again.
 There was an official on one of our great railroads who was retired at seT- enty. Hell die now" said his friends kindly. But he didn't Instead, he be- came interested in the wild flowers, and now he is too busy in looking for the rams Head orchid and trying to find a new. station for the hart's tongue fern and trumpiug around in the woods and fields In all kinds of weather even to think of dying Anyway, he would not hare time until he's finished his monograph on the willows of the Unit. ed States.
 There Is a woman In Baltimore, sev- enty-two years old, who years ago sought to forget 8 great sorrow by learning the butterflies. Her city home has become a rendezvous for eutomolo- rIsts all over the world md houses a famous collection While her contcm- Doraries are dozing their lives away in cans and easy chairs she spends her summers ln tho mountains and her winters in Flortfa with a butterfly net Twcntv-oue now species to identify are her contribution to tue lepidoptera, and she plans to live until the last goal of an cutom0logist ls reached the using of her single initial species.
 An octet of men in Philadelphia, all well past their throuscore years, some ln busfucs, and some foot loose, be- long to the same oruithological socle- ty They arc afe'd every day of the year. rain or shine. to watch the ever changing bird Hfe In the spring each prepares migrant sheets showing the arrivals of .hc hundred odd migrants that nasS tGrou-H every place every year. There Is great rivalry as to who shall score the most wg"blurs or iden- tifr the largest number oc birds in one day. At present writing the oldest of the eight holds a record of seventy five different kinds of birds seen or heard in one day between dawn and dars-ona for oa.h year uf his age and one to grow on
 X man m North Carolina by the sud den death of two os his family was left alone with Iur little money, no friends and tho cheering d.ctum from his doctor that hc had only year to live To while away thc few months still left t1 him as well as to help out his household oErnnsCs he took.up the study of edible mushrooms. At the end of a year in thn oDen he notified bis indignant physician that he had become too much interested in his hobby to coafrm his diagnosis. In ten years he has discovered. classified and tested TO kinds of edible mushrooms and has published a book which is one of the standard authorit1os for hush room caters of Che world
 Another se0uagenar.U0 attributes hls long life to the stars Confined to business duriug the day, he sought the open air at night and began to study The chargtug cancellations and the per nrayfn- planets. Then he found that with an opera g,a-s be could detect their rrrurs and revo.od in the blue f.nt of Vr-a. t.a -raru glare of Sirius, n. -n.. -..I ur N...narau the flame u... . 2 ......... and taa strange
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