Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-25
YEARS NOT A BURDEN
OLD AGE HAS PRACTICALLY
CEASED To BE soGN.
Man Of Today Refuses TO- Be- c0Hs'6'
cred Old When He Arrives At the
Three Score Years and Ten
Some Examples.

OlA age used to, be regarded a. an
ineurable disease, g. time to,be looked
forward. to with horror; a. period D.
useless, numbering, of the earth.
That bogy is, scared away by the
testimony of some of. the living celebn'
ties who have leftt the biblical "three
score and ten" landmark far behind
them, says a. writer in the Milwaukee
Sentinel
Says John Burroughs, the greAtrnat'
uralist, at, seventyrseyen:
II. am in better health. and more
able. to- do my works at seyenty-sesen'
than. l. was, at; fo~rtyyseven or at hfty:
seven. l. have produced more manus
scripts, during the last. three, years:
than during any other three years Of
my life, and. of. a. kind, that has made
unusual intellectual demands upon me-.
"Old age is not such .bngaboo1aftefG
ALL He Is, In many. ways, bstterrto'live
with than YOUTH. because be v
you more at O ease;. you4are inAthe'
calmeri watersj the fretl and ever Oh
lie havesgreatly,abated Old age bcingsb
the philosophical, mind; he brings
q, deeper. wider outlook upon life; he
brings more tolerance, and ic~harityyand.
good will. / did. not. squandsrt my
youth in .excesses, andlhence i lamlnot.
bankrupt in my old .ages5'"
Amelia e. Barr, the novelist, who IS
six years. older than. Burroughs. and
who writes six hours day ~giyessthis'
recipe for staying, young I'M the
| eighties:
II have constantly given my mind
| plenty of new thoughts; ,and.t this men
tai diet has, kept, me, young. 1t In
routine that ages. Even In. my, sleep
l am often mentally busy. think. l.
know consciously that when l. rest il
darken. l have constantly proved that,
intellectual activity infusesa life into
| every part of the body. Asafar. as pos
sible l avoid. anger or. worry, for, ONE
hour Of such facilitating mental exer"-
else destroys all personal magnetism.
and what passes between them andthe'
soul l do not. care toDsay.
Il keep, my health because I keep
my illusions. l will. not believe that
every one. Is, false. Il will moi. believe.
that hope. tells, a. fiattering, tale. or
that friendship, iss only a. name.. or
that true love has, fed from earth and
that the fear. of. God has vanished And
above all! other reasons, forr my gp0d.
health I. place the. viyifyjngs power Of
love. Loya.ia life"
CARDINAL Gibbons. eighty years OLD
and in the prime, Of his powers, says.
II believe firmly that thee oriticaat
time Of life for. the: making, or marring,
of a sound. constitution. ia, the neriodt
of youth. The, seeds of. weakness, are,
sown ina the system them, by irregpr-
larity of. life.. particularly in the hours
allottedi for. sleep, and rest; by excess
in eating, and. drinking; by grosserr axs-
cesses;. and! by lack Of proper exar-
else.
The rnless OF health from which Il
have never swerved. from. my youth
are: Regularity Of ife;, moderation in.
eating, and drinking, exarcise proper
to my age and professiom;, avoidance
of worry; and an aver, abiding tr&at I'm
Gods providence. L have, always been
avaricious in the matter Of Sleep
Early, to. bed, is the wisest Of all saws
for him who, has work to- do and arnhi-
ton to, do III we'll"