The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-07-29
CURE FOR OLD ACE
Easy and Pleasant and Costs but
Little to Try 1t.
A GOOD WAY TO CHEAT DEATH.

The Prescription IL to Mix Open Air
and a Hobby, Shake Well and Take as
Many Hours Day or Night as Pos
sibIe-The Cure In Real Life.
Old age can be cured The prescrip
ton Is a simple one. Mix open air and
a hobby, shake well and take as many
hours 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
use?" Then Is the time when a 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, be 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 harris tongue
fern and tramping around in the woods
and fields in all kinds OF weather even
to 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 a 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 a rendezvous for entomOlo
gists all over the world and houses a
70
poraries are doing their lives away in
caps and easy chairs she spends her
summers in the mountains and her
winters in Florida with butterfly net.
Twenty lone 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. all
we'll past their threescOre years. some
liz business and some foot loose. be-
long to the same pathological socie
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 who
shall score the most warblers or iden,
tify 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
dark-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, no
friends and the cheering dictum from
his doctor that he had only a year to
live To while away the few months
still left to him as we'll 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 he 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 book which is one
IF the standard authorities for mrSh
-nOm eaters of the world
Another septuagenarian attributes his
.OnG life to the stars Confined L.
business during the day. he sought the
'pen air at night and began to study
lie changing consultations and thr per
clicking planets Then he found thai
with an opera glass be could detect
heir cOlors and reveled in the blue
ight of Vega. the green glare of Sirius
he rose red of Aidebaran. the flame
.UlOr of Betelguese and the strange
nades of other cleaning sky kings
tinally he bought small teleSroI.
Now. ut seventy hr has published q.
monograph on the double stars besides
. quaint little star guide that has in
.i.r"~ted thousands in his huhIy
None of the nature studies requires
mach money or time y cheap Illus
rated Suidebook an opera glass ana
1 i.nSSible. some walks and talks with
al 'xpert. and you will learn almost
immediately To identify score or more
;: flowers. or birds. or considerations
90: mushrooms, and you will have found
hobby on which you may ride away
f'ryIn Death
Try il. young men, lest you grow Ole
FRY it. old men. before you grow tired
Escape into the open from these mar
NV indoor days and learn the way to
here the wild folk dwell In their
nd YOU will find the help of the hills
md hope wide as the world. and
lrength. and youth, and happiness
Try it.-Samuel Scoville. Jr.. in Lippin
utt's