The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-12-31
CURE FOR OLD ACE
Easy and Pleasant and Costs but
Little to Try 1t.
GOOD WAY TO CHEAT DEATH.

The Prescription Is to Mix Open Air
and a Hobby, Shake Well and Take as
Many Hours a Day or Night as Pos
sible-The Cure In Real Life.
Old g can be cured. The pl scrip.
ton is a simple one. Mix open air and
q hobby, shake well and take as many
hours a day as possible. No n be-
gins to age until he is bored, and the
first gray hair comes when q man sud
denly thinks to himself, whats the
usef" 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, 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 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 q woman In Baltimore, "
enty-two years old, who years age
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
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 q 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, all
well past their threescore years, some
In business and some foot loose. be-
long to the same pathological socie-
ty. They are afeld 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 LDlOuSh tNeIy pldCc tNtly
year. There is great rivalry as to who
shall score the most warblers or iden-
ttfy 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 n 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 well as to help out
his household expenses he took up the
study of edible mushrooms. At the
end of a 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 ITO 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 to
business during the day, he sought the
open air at night and began to study
the changing consultations and the per-
picking planets. Then he 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 flame
color Of Betelguese and the strange
shades of other cleaning sky kings.
Finally he bought a small telescope.
Now, at seventy. he has published a
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 with
an expert, and you will learn almost
Immediately to identify a score or more
Of flowers, or birds, or consultations,
or mushrooms, and you will have found
a hobby On which you may ride away
from Death.
Try 1t, young men, lest you grow old
Try 1t, 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 ScoviIle, Jr., in Lippin-
colts.