Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-10
MARION HARL AND At 90,
TELLS WORLD, KEEP BUSY
Golden Rule Only Sure Precept
for Healthful Living and Sue
cessful Career, She Says.

Mrs. Edward PaysOn Tcrhune, known
and beloved for over seventy years as
Marion IIarland, will be ninety years
old Dec. 2I. In her winter home in New
Work the other day she spoke of the hopes
and disappointmcuts of her long life, and
the expectations and plans and she has
lots of thcm-of the years that are
remaining to her Entering on the tenth
decade Of her life, with her three children
six grandchildren, and three great-grand-
children about her, she has real message
of love and good cheer to deliver to those
other travellers on the road which she has
Travelled So long and so successfully.
Before giving out message that
viii help others to arrive where | have
arrived rs happy and contented and
well rs am, ;" said Mrs Tcrhune, II want
la tell lust how we'll and happy am. In
spitc Of the ninctleth birthday looming
IN the offing. ! don feel the effect OF my
age ut all In all the time of my HE,
though | have broken things bones,
muscles and otherwise now come
back to Cypress me Otherwise | would
be able to go about and do my part III the
world physically rs well rs mentally.
NV first suggestion for long life and
happiness is TO obey the rules ot health.
Make a study of your constitution and
do the things YOU know are good for YOU
Omit the bad things TransgrcsSions against
the laws of the body are sin. Exercises
every night before retiring which | still
tske. and plenty of fresh air, arc OF the
greatest help
Secondly. keep yourself IN rs good
mental and spiritual health rs you do
physical a conscience devoid OF otfense
toward ones fellow men is the best aid
IN this The Golden Rule is the best pre-
scription that I can offer toward good
usyntal snd spiritual health.
"Afv third snd last piece of advice IS
also. m nv estimation, the one great
secret Of happincss. Have some specific
work in life, something to get up IN
the morning for | want to speak little
more nj length on that subject, for #
did not have that before me there would
bc no reason for living. ! never ind life
nlunotonous, and | try not To look be
hind me RctroSpcCtlon is not good for the
sui. unless for the purpose OF remembering
wrong turns taken IN the road and avoid
ing them when passing again over that
uath. One reason that old peoplo get
melancholy and long to die Is that they
look backward too much, and at the
same time don't look out of themselves
cnouoh 10 do things for other people.
''Thev say their work is over, vet no
dav passes when someone or anyone can
not make somebody elses life lighter
and brighter The older ! grow the
more people do for me, and the mon, |
can do Tor them. Il never fails. The
world Is full 81 good people, let's have
more Of them. That Is my message now,
and though NAV round out the century,
! don't think it will change except through
the addition Of greater emphasis.
wears. 50 nearly completed, Il is hard TO
imagine how her life could have been more
active or held more She was born in
1880 in Amelia County, Va, and lived
there for twelve years, after which she
moved to Richmond. She was married
in Richmond to Edward Payson Terhune,
a Northern clergyman, IN 1856, and the
first years after her marriage were spent
In Charlotte Court House, Va, the shire
town of Charlotte County and the centre
of the choicest and most aristocratic
life that even Virgins could boast in those
pre-wsr davs. Here dwclt the Henrys,
the Randolphs and the Csrringtons, and
other famous and high-hred families
and il is about this circle Of life that ''The
Carringtons OF High Hill, which Mrs.
Terbune has Just published, tells and
elaborates
=.
Tcrhune went 10 Newark. n j., where
her husband had been called to large
church. and there she was most active in
church work. becoming the First President
Of the WomCns Christian Association of
New Jersey. which latter became the Y
". C A. 1t was while she was on 8 visit
70 relatives and friends IN the South that
the Civil War broke out. Always q
[ MON Sympathlzer, she made arrange
mentS TO leave for the North at once
and came through on the last train that
made the tup-the last Tor four years.
II WAS mobbed on the way by Southern
sympsthizers IN search Of Inionists, but
the trsin pulled out before any harm could
be done The wears OF 1857 were spent
abrosd because of ill-health. and DR..
Terhune was succeSsivelv chaplain OF the
American chapels In Rome and Paris
Five years were then spent IN Springfield,
Mass. followed by twelve wears divided
between two Brooklyn churches, where
Dr.. Ierlune occupied the pastOrate.
In 1898 Mrs Terhune made trip TO
the HOLY Land. to Greece and to Egypt,
acting a. correspondent for a New York
periodical. and her letters home at that
time have since been published as one OF
her best known works The Home OF the
Bible The trip TO the East was follow
ed BY a successful lecture tour through ten
States In 1897 Mrs Terhune spent
another wear abroad when her husband
health failed.
Almost as long. and fully as varied,
Mrs Terhune literary career is as inter
estlng as her life She first wrote for
publication at the age Of IA, sending her
writings anonymously 10 a paper which
published them under the title Of Serb
bllng> About Town At IS she won
prize for i story printed in the Southern
IRA. now extinct, and since then has con
tributed regularly to newspapers and
periodicals.. She IS probably the most
versatile writer today In America her
work comprising novels, biography travel,
household books, home-naking topics,
essays and short stories over sixty
books have come from her pen
Mrs Ierhuue life can best be epito-
nized ID the phrase which, coming from
ler lips, becomes u proverb and at the
same nme mighty plea 70 the woman Of
.odav
The profession Of holuc-nak!ng is
he hnest profession that any woman can
nave"