Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-12
by Nferris Taylor

anna Canals, the Grand Canon of the
Colorado, the grandeur of the Ameri-
can and Canadian Rockies, and the
like. He has bathed in the sacred
waters of the Ganges and the Nile. and
attended worship in the famous shrines
of the worlds leading faiths--the Chris
tian cathedrals, the Confucian. Hindu
and Buddhist temples in China. India
and Japan. the Mohammedan mosques
and the Hebrew synagogues.
a veteran equestrian. Judge Grubb
has mounted the buclaing broncho in
Mexico. the elephant in India, and the
camel and donkey in Egypt; and in
1898, he rode, and thereby won wager,
upon whale on the Arctic Sea, of
Norway. In 1902 he rode inside a
whale-the worlds first submarine. the
Holland-beneath the sea at Newport,
Il. L.: and also. two years ago at At
lantic City. scared above the sea in a
Curtiss hydro-aeroplane. And he has
ample proof in his collection of travel
mementoes that he is not a modern
Marco Polo or Baron Munchausen. or
a duly qualified member of the Roose-
welt Ananias Club!
Aid to Long Life.
Judge" j inquired, after having been
"resucitated' from this unexpected sum-
mary of the extent of his travels, which
fairly staggered me. although / knew
he had travelled extensively, 'in view
OF your advanced age I think your re-
markable vitality bodily and mental
activity. youthful spirit and keen in
terest in worldwide current events are
really marvellous. What is the secret?'
simply" the Judge answered, a weak
stomach's constitutional limitations and
a strong, commonsense self denial and
self-control, combined with unfaltering
spirit and unyieIding grit. Almost all
of my earliest contemporaries with ro-
bust bodies and sturdy stomachs are
now dead, and, probably. because they
did not exercise prudent and system
attic sef-denial and self-control in the
care of their digestive system and func-
tions. Overlooking the stomach and
overworlIing the brain win surely over
strain the nervous system and impair
the digestion and assimilation of the
food, and ultimately result in serious
bodily maladies.
The preventive remedy Is judicious
selection OF the proper kind and quality
of food, daily physical exercises, both
indoors and out. pure air, and due re-
pose of body, mind and spirit. This
must be constant and not intermittent,
and sustained by firm resolve and un-
flinching staying power. and the pluck
TO maintain cheerfulness and to disdain
despondency under all circumstances.
Dependency may often be averted or
dispelled by considering how much
more fortunate one really is than the
millions of his helpers and hopeless
beings.
Most ills and Rnxieties are the Off
spring of a morbid imagination and
weak will--especially in advancing age
Both anger and hypochondria are in
furious 10 the aged. but may be avoided
or overcome. BY resolute effort and
constant self-development of the body.
mind and spirit, a normally sane and
sound person may, in the evening of
life. he habitually cheerful and genial
and make a sunshine in a shady place
Tor both himself and others.
For age IS opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in an
other dress.
And as the evening twilight fades
away
The sky is filed with stars invisible
by day,
as Longfellow has so beautifully ex-
pressed it"