The Adair County news., 1914-10-28
CURE FOR OLD ACE
Easy and Pleasant and Costs but
Little to Try 1t.
A GOOD WAY TO CHEAT DEATH.

The Prescription Is to Mix Open Air
and Hobby, Shake Well and Take as
Many Hours Day or Night as Pos.
sible-The Cure In Real Life.
Old age can be cured The prescrip-
don is a simple one. Mix open air and
a 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 a man sud-
denly thinks to himself, whats the
user" Then is the time when hobby
makes life interesting again
There was an official on one Of our
great railroads who was retired at sew
enty. Hell die now" said his friends
kindly. But he didn't. Instead, he be-
came interested in the wild flowers.
and now be is too busy in looking for
the rams head orchid and trying to
find a new station for the harris tongue
fern and tramping around in the woods
and fields in all kinds Of weather even
20 think of dying Anyway, he would
not have time until he's finished his
monograph on the willows of the Unit
ed States
There is woman in Baltimore. sew
enty-twO years old. who years ago
sought to forget a great sorrow by
learning the butterflies. Her city home
has become n rendezvous for entomolo-
gists all over the world and houses a
famous collection. While her contem-
poraries are doing their lives away In
caps and easy chairs she spends her
summers In the mountains and her
winters in Florida with a 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, ali
well past their threescore years, some
in business and some foot loose, be.
long to the same pathological socie-
fy. 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 who
shall score the most warblers or iden.
fifty the largest number of 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
idark-one for each year of his age and
one TO grow on.
A man in North Carolina by the sud.
den death Of two of his family was
left alone with but little money, nc
friends and the cheering dictum from
his doctor that he had only year to
Hive. To while away the few months
still left to him as well as to help out
his household expenses he took up the
study of edible mushrooms. At the
end Of year in the open he notified
his indignant physician that be had
become too much interested in his
hobby to confirm his diagnosis. In ten
years he has discovered, classified and
tested 10 kinds of edible mushrooms
and has published a book which is one
of the standard authorities for muSh
room eaters Of the world
Another septuagenarian attributes his
long life TO the stars. Confined t
business during the day. he sought the
open air at night and began to study
the changing consultations and the per.
picking planets. Then be found that
with an opera glass he could detect
their colors and reveled in the blue
light of Vega, the green glare of Sirius.
the rose red of Aldebaran, the fame
color Of Betelguese and the strange
shades Of other cleaning sky kings
Finally he bought a small telescope
Now, at seventy, be has published :,
monograph on the double stars. besides
a quaint little star guide that has in
terested thousands in his hobby
None of the nature studies requires
much money or time. A cheap illus
trated guidebook. an opera glass and
IL possible. some walks and talks witt
an expert, and you will learn almost
Immediately to identify a score or more
Of lowers, or birds. or consteli2 lions
or mushrooms. and you will have found
a hobby on which you may ride away
from Death
Try it, young men. lest you grow old.
Try it, old men. before you grow tired
Escape into the open from these mar
row indoor days and learn the way to
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 Lippin
colts.