Show I Bow to Keep = Young Letters Jrom FnmottH Sopto anil Outo oiiuviiuiN an to the Secrets of Jci po mil Youth florist lien f They May fMt ttt Nor oj Suia B AnHtni I Tell Imiif J 1011 ntmtlvttSlit Vlimtitt Mtrthte nil lLs7es Ue Hot Irt al I TutnlyfictKuit hfrvrrS lgsllarh ll > lnn rwllinokot Cait of Adele Sld Shot llm lie Attfi Hit lltjM Vie tU am Samuel < SmtlH Ill Mlur of Self litW fibM Un RIII of lIosIIA at W1 luoA Letter ro i the Mf Srttttory MtQiUtthttotJ XKtitlOH AttiowmttllfK Itomii lallloNI rxghntl < Jam Uilhiui 1 llufflil ItmUmlk Minima ffttfl rmxsnt Dill Hfe af IMtil Sftmtr LtUin Jam the Ret KmmtH Hall et Olktii I filial m4dmm uitS hint I I CCoUlllbl4I11 IT TrioS u trirtaTt I fj OW TO flEEt oung i f Tor the past ten t years I have been gelling advice I L from the litnoui old people w ol the world upon thin sub aL Ject J I Intervened George Ilancroft upon eile when he won In his nlneliei And he then told 1 me could ride thirty mile a day without tiring I chatted will W W Corcoran as to thin when he uai eightynine and Ireildenl Harrisons I father In liw Dr Scott gave me hit receipt torn working old age v hell he vt as ninelyt o I know a damn men who have past their three core and ten and who ore an out In public life who are tllll doing good work and Governor Gear the newly elected senator from Iowa li bile and hearty at seventyfive I interviewed Casslut M l Clay alien he was over eighty about three yean ago lon this subject and ilnce that time he hat married mar-ried a young wife and has begun another an-other eiiitance 11 Hung Chang told me last summer how lie divided his work and steep In order tu maintain the wonderful vitality which he thowed at seventy lour and I have today a number num-ber ol letters and Interviews with noted sepIa and octogenarians upon this subject sub-ject These letters have been accumulating accumu-lating for some lime They ale written by men and women who have lone since passed their three score and ten and till their l handwriting I strains that they lute ti tr their vigor I and II their words sparkle with the ltallly ul youth ADVICk mol arson U ANTIIONt The first I give Is from Susan It I Anthony I1 fiSr f1 thony She Is now seventyrive but her blue eyes are full ot life I and her voice Inas strong as II snot when sire lIIde hor ro hll AV tok In 1847neanfyIaH j l century ago T I sent I her a lilt of question upon the subject il perpetual youth about a year ago I And here are her answers dated April i 28 18941 t Tile course of life for a young woman to I adln order that she may reach a working old 1 age and make the Hunt ol herself Is precisely the course ol life that a young man should pursue for the annie purpose and this has been so well Indicated by 1hllllps Urouks that I can ilono better than tu ijuole Ills own words as follows I To be at work to do things 1 for the world to turn the currents ol tire things about us at our will tu mako our existence exist-ence a positive clement even though it be no bigger than a grain ol sand In the great system where ue live this alone Into live ngllved people u hu keep up their work to the last ate the pcopla who have Iou nIl out the secret namely lhat congenial work Is the joy HOW MISS ANTIIONl aunts OVNO One of questions was al to how Miss Anthony kept her tocdcrful health and working power Her reply lu tins is as follows A human being Is I born to think to 11110 enjoy a liberty bounded only by respect for the cimal llbeily lor others To think ones self Into the realm of tented freedom ol thought to maxims and enjoy such liberty ol social action ails bounded only by the same liberty In others and to will with all ones power that each units politic 1 liberty a hall be conceded and olliclally rccog nlied by each to tread the natural pain Ui human iTc0Pmenl Hence I can but attribute mi oftn extraordinary health and working pou > V lu the act that 1 have chosen such a couXJ As machinery I I fllu nou lain longciKvin l machinery I > ing Idle so a body and sour In active exercise escapes the corroding I rust of phtslcal and mental laziness which prematurely cuts oil to many I womens lives II lain I able lu rIm trio work of daily traveling and lecturing ut aver three score ears runt ten I believe be-lieve It to be simply because I halo al I 0 worked and loved work As tu my habit of life It will bo plain I Irom lfIb what I hiasejunt i said I that It hat been Impossible for me to live fixed rules for eating resting sleeping uc thu I only ach ice I could glta a ioung pir son on this point would tie fUeat simply us you can hint mririt purl find agrees with sour tonitltulion ulien joucun get it bleep whenever rare jou r-are sleepy and think us little of these details as possible A UOKU moor llAKhlAcl tOo aiked whether marriage Is conducive con-ducive to longevity I ami should women marry anomie MIsi Anthonys letter continues Now the answers to this are plain Tint depends upon the specific case of marriage and upon what lh you mrean ey joiing I tin the I Orient u woman Is considered old enough to mairyat Uclve In the Occident the average ate lor marriage ranges from twenty to merittight I should consider con-sider twentylite a good age fur a woman to marr as by that time she has arrived ala reasoning singe and is therefore In condition to make in Intelligent In-telligent choice among men A mime riageat tIns age largely I because it it likely to be mule uitu some intelligence intelli-gence Is I more conducive to longevity than a child marriage Then mt bo a marriage with a hutbuul who highly respects his whoa individuality uho treats tier In all particuUis ns lie himself him-self would wish lobe reined t well he a woman of hue spirit of independent thought and of sell respecting will I should nay such a nuriUio is conducive to lonieul and Is an ideal human relation ONU TUB iHUKiusnnn UOIIK In closing Mm Antliony writes the I I lei owing c at lathe preservation ol men tam oellII I I I Intrllectinl health It liesn preserved hy concise ol tIme mlellct Inlclleclual decay Is due lo an Inactivity ol tire 1 minef The worrying people ol the weitld are tamely lound nmong thin workers for one uf r the letmnt 1 work learnt It to eo Ihe Inesn l ponttbc at every moment and lo trust time to hnitli must cannot then be consummated Worry belongs tin thrumse who have no Iihh and i IIho allme to greil responttbl llv It belongs lo tIne popl who feel lhal all tine work ol time world I can onlylwwrll I done by kl themselves I and that shiny have I neither lime nor strength to ito It all The true thinker understand Hut in I tore creAtes thousanJt 01 viorhiens liar every work and bier faith In Hut stand Injbntlpretetvwhcr from Iho worry that It born of narrowness nnd egoism LSmgnnmth indiaN II ANIIIOSI ROI Tile notion simm MAIArRor lAIn 5 ri NM ama Of the same age at Oman n An I honey and of equal vitality It I Mr Ijjusli Drew who now at seveiili live has all tIme vigor ul vuutli Ion I lime I past siity seven years slip hat been delighting II I de-lighting audienict In this I I country I nnd Europe suit her geniuiand her comedy arming hat laughed more lat upon the peopled the United Mites than the ii flIIIUN 1 1 fl IJ humors of Hill Nye or Josh Hillings Mrs Drew may almost bo aald lo be in her pilmo loOny ton thirty > eus she wat the mannger of a theater and her Idler shows that her life has been comparatively com-paratively free from tIre I lilt I which ordinary ordin-ary tleshls heir lo I give I JI ilvcrballm I UlRlllMllAM Ala April JJ 189 My Dear hirYou have I put several questions lo mo which are dilhciilt i Ion me to anmer How can I tell that what agrees with my constitution will duo with others lean I only answer for myself nnd shah I I fear appear egotistical I bmave always lived i generously gener-ously and hive enjovcd my tile Many sorrows trove overtaken my late I pears but have not crushed my spirits I I married very early In lIe at incase ol sulcen but should not advise so early a marriage Kellel3l1y bull I did not have any family until 1 was ihirly years old and I won consequently not hared by the care of children when I Wat very young I know of no way preieiving health intellectual or pli slcal except through the rxercUe nl the acuities I have never been t tfllicttL with Insomnia and therefore cannol prescribe a tcmcdy for that In fact I I nave been > u singularly blessed will flue health Ih11 I am scarcely a good subject for your purpose Yours truly lotkiA Iatvnmm Clillor CIARI nil RIlUIlt mANO AT aIOIlTvTllkkK One of tire great limo ms ul the Episcopal Episco-pal church I U Ulsiop Ihomas M I Clank who I hive been preaching tIme gospel hue shin ol last sixty I peals Mo gradualed at Yalo College when Andrew Jackson was still In IrIs liril presldenllil term and ho was licensed preach at a Iresbyler Ian ilcrgnun before Van llurcn got the presidency Soon niter this he dropped rietbterlanlsm and became an plscopallan 1 and he was made tire bishop ul Kliodo Itlatul more than forty caisigo Ho hat published number ol books and IIUW at tire ago ul eighty three he can oulwork most ul the young men about him Here Is what he writes IKOVIIIIINCK U I April i 1891 Dear blrln reply to > ours of Ihe Jill Italll allow me to say thill I was born in Nell LUIYIorl Mass un the 411 uf July iSu rnd so Ir l as I know with the exception of a stillncsi In the joints which provents me from walLIng long l IJ eIlfi 7111 tt 1 dlslinccs I am AS strong and well as I ever havo been I am able to keep all my appointments 01 homo I and abroad and tu work with entire freedom In Isbn I I hays done triune visiting within the last six I months than in any other half r pear of my He I I Now In reply lo lour questions 11 J I nteVy than In order to reach a rso kiiil oldugcvnd I making the mosljf him self and 1 kcYping up his 1 work no 10 I ist a priming thin bhoutd lakonbundant phslcal exercise lieIUWUV holesome luod and rational amusements Ho should cultivate all his mental putters to Ihe best posmble adv nntigv while at time same time he should be careful lotto lot-to liUmlnd with the study ol books ur an thing likely to Impair Ins heallh Ol cotir > o ho mutt avoid every habit and Indulgence thai tends to weaken lilt nervous force oll < leads a natural wholesome pure and temperate temper-ate hie File working power ol the mind ought not to demolish w ilh the approach ap-proach ol age and ills possible lor us IU do our bvI work low ard Iho close ul our mortal existence I attribute imp own lieillh which hal never bern seriously Impaired and my longevity very much to the Inheritance which has been tranimllttd I l lo me by my ancestors I am elcscnded 1 on my mothers tide nulls tile lie John hremriglil one of Ihe curliest of the llottuti ministers who was banished Irom tIne Massachusetts colony lor heiesy aluiit lIre pear 16413 Ho lived loancxticnic old ULC in most ol his posterity have shone my own grand lither being ninellhrce years uld the first time lit ever sent foes phsician SMOKH TullXCXO IllTV IKAHH As to limb on person il lubils I smoked tobacco taitlnully for lilly peril and then I seven ur ro tariago 1 abutdoned II mimogetluer on he jruulld Ihall I did not care to be a slave ul uJi a hibt any longer I hive not been a total abstainer except lor certain limited periods when I thought I llial Ire gJIIIIha tIle welfare ol others required It I have been ucciutomtd tu sleep as other people do ami 1 without giving much thought to It In net n regard re-gard tor sanitary rules and special alien lion 10 lodily hcilth have never Intsr ested me very much In regard lo marriage as being conducive condu-cive to irmnjutvhhyannl 1 unto tluig clio that I I hA good and desirable 1 think that every Ihl Je able bodied man who hat the meant of supporting a family Is under a moral obligation marry at soon iso possible after he lia < reached the age of twenty one II he expect lo live upon other eopte I like i a parasite he has 110 right to marry at all HARD WORK lIla OusT MKDICINt lii order lo preserve Intellectual health I a young man I would say to an ik old msn ohio should I act mud work like n reasonable wIng and nlway have omcililnc on hand to occupy and benefit bene-fit and Intesett him A machine tint In idle for a series ol peors It dee troye1 by ruin and It work In the sallie wa > with human beings whether they are truing or oIl I I lu not mean tint a bushiest man should keep tin going u his flicci sm r hit shad every day and oil on nih hat been ncurtomed to lo until the soul comet Ilul there mini be vMiwlhlnt lo ucotijy the inmtl 111 wr would l keep I from dying before our til 1 I Antilmomnia Igo I to bed every night ni U oclock nnd got 111 heiorc eight next ninrnliigUklng 1 mont nap lIf1 hF t during I lilt day II I limo tIle oip nun ly Hi do m I olten keep un writing until ad r mi Imght AS I iim now doing but thit sloes out tnlerfer with my sleep inr I have no trnuule un lliat score I Iwve li loch no conteloutntst of old age at d but hun the impediment I walking 1 should contidtr myself m oiiU i man at I ever wn I know mmt l course tint the visit nuil bo near but It stumes not iieeiii to me soy nearer IMII it lull h lily > iuri agu I have pcnl eaon lo Ihanl daal I lur giving me such a tel 011 and ant mimi old tijc Very teiiKillully > OIIM iiOMA I It I Ci HK PROM TIIK AUrncm nl sets II ELI AdiII rillHIV TWO My next letter Is I Irom Mr Smiuel Smile the author of Self Help and of a dolt other valuable works He also sops Ihal work u the only thing that keeps men uitng Ills Idler Is i lull ol pcnunal details about his hibils and his work Ills written In a firm hand U teals at follows KnN iNciroN louduI I i June Jlli 1894 IJar SirI Ihivelo ask your pardon for not sooner rcpljli lo pour teller of I April lolh II came lo me through ldinhurgh Scotland which I 111 filly six tears ago Since then I have lived at lecdi nut principally I I In London where long 1 acted at secretary of the boutheaitern Railway compaii 1 am well on In my eightysecond year About twenty three eOtC agol I hid a stroke of el parilysls jl should traictly be living at present but having a sound constitution and civlng up all I woik rc about live years I happily l recovered re-covered and only the other day I tent manuscript ot a new book to the prmleit The reaton I had my stroke of paralysis para-lysis Is 4S follows Alter doing my secretarial sec-retarial work during the day I went home at night and vvrule the Lives ol the lnglneer After that came bell Help I and Character The hrst successful success-ful I book I wrote was on the hie ol George blephenson I hid attained Ihe age ol lorlyhve years when I wrote that book The others lullowid While I was writing Character I was also editing the work of my scti A Hoys Voyage Kouujlho Wuild Ilia 1 was more Hun any human brain couid unelergo Then 1 wat stricken down lost tIre use uf my right tide loll my speech had what it called aphasia amid 1 llIl Ct i then took my long rest When I recovered re-covered I proceeded to write other books most of which are knoarn III America Many of my book hive been translated Into luropean Ian uages and also Into Asiatic as lar as Japan Yuu ask me about my habits I am never Idle Work Is the salvation ul every human being I My wife Is alive and at happy at I am I should not have been at I am without her We hid two tons and three daughters one ot the sweetest ol the latter died Hut uc hivenevertheless twenty grandchildren grand-children and one of them el Is III happily married Ive hind our golden I wedding In December last I smoke moderately and take three I quarters of a glass of whltky at night by the advice ol my doctor to Induct ot II steep lvcr thing in moderation ci I take Iwu walks a slay one In the lore noon another In the alternoon On the whole lam I lery well lvcrs yours faithfully S SMIIBS now strtniAHV SICIILOCII KIIIT voiso Olle of the lIIu1 Interesting ol Incse unpubllihe Inters was from l iUrabe HughMcCulloch lie iWtevciityilx es old hen becret y uf the Ire I my and he preserved his Inlelloclua vigor to Hie last Aboula > ear ago lie dictated a lelltv tnr mo un OUInunU how to ken u lie ness not well At the lime ao Mm I McCulloch I wrote the letrand signed II In It she said Mr McCulloch believes In the golden rule 1 he young man hUh 131 grow Ilo and still keep jonng should etolo ulhcrsat bet would I be done by He should 1 Ije pure ul In soul r ami ILJy unit tin temperate in eating and drinking lIe uchen that tobacco and nrden spiiilt lire Injurious and he would advise ad-vise lilt voting to let hem alone He I should devote hlnnelf lo business but he should not neglect his family He I shouUi thuuld marr as soon as he U able lu keep house unJ when he tinds the woman whom he can sincerely love ott ask at to Insomnia Mr Mc Cnlloch hat found that horseback riduiL has done a great deal for him Ha t hat always been a light sleeper anJ lie could not sleep I well w hen business cares annucd him He I was delicate whei hewentto Indhnaattlia age of twenty five but hu had to lake lour trips a pear Irom lurl 1 Waxnu to IndlanipolU 01 horseback This exercise made him strong and vigorous and he kept it up in alter 11 life It ua his chief exercise when In the treasury dcpirlmcnt Secretary McCulljcli Ins alwats beei l domestic in hu tastes Ills I pleisures I liavu been in hit famllj and It It Ihere that he has gotten hit rest and enjoy menu illS boys have alwa > s been londe uf I home than ol any other I place cl irlI and their I father wan their fivorlte com panlon He therefore had no black sheep In hit famil bo is and grandsons are respectable men to far God blest Ihem liigned I MRS McCiLiocii AN OCTOCILN KIN AVfROSOilkU Une of the most lintoat astiononleri and scientists ul lnglauel I > it the Hon William Huggint hr I K s i n 1 C L II 1 who now at eightyone write I I I h7i n hand I like cuimtmertmiinle I 1 have a long r Ictttr from hums upon these subjects urn he gives me many good points as to how to keep oung Says he One of limo chish things that I would nJ nlt say to young men Is dont burn I > our candle 01 both ends Do not nttcmp lo tike upon yourself the double bur dm of lard intellectual work and at the ante lime try to undergo the erhausling cllvllles of modern social life Work lone Mom If ever kl Is or ever en eeble but Inlelleclual work followed by the cxhamting excitement of society hrcllfl fl hrcll oi 1 makes a double strain which It one of he most frequent f cuset of premature ccblenest and nf old age I believe in regular and sufficient period of sleep and as for myself I have never smoked and though not a total abstainer I tike very little of any alcoholic 1 I illmtiltnlt rJIIIJ lrl t but ion i I sometimes drink a glasl ol I claret often for a long period no wines at all ny05 ask a < to marriage 1 reply hat other condition being equal a oung man will dn wisely to marry catonably early I drink however hat It would be far better lo defer mrilae II Hi Increased expenses and social claims are likely to cripple the means of tin young man an1 his tmre aratlon lor hit hue work If n wise choice It mule and both are willing by I a prudent mode of living to avoid bring mmd upon Ihemleh prematurely large expense 5 and soclil distinction I b < lena R ynunx man In such cases will I e nimcnsely RIme gainer by the stimulus ympalhy aid safeguards ol an early e iSigneeiO WilliAM IlunaiNS FROM THOkUl VhSTWOinil IIIOeltNSON Pew men In ihe United Stales have lone mora literary nuninla lIon flomat Ventworth Hlgglniwn He his wiltlen a eloittn dillereni works an J he hit been one of Ihe leaders ul advanced thought In the United hlitct forjiin Hell low eh htytvo t p eannofaite bul lie Ii In rood 11050151 ronditloi aalli U still at work His reply comes to mo on the lage mal unotelKinkwilh tire IueallOnn on emit tide and the answers opposite them Illohotl and to the point Hi > a > s he does not use tobacco nor liquor and yet miny who use them reaeli n icallhy uld age He I slcept clhl hours every night and lakes 1 a cold I fionge d1f to rl i halls I daIry He cint say whcuVr marriage It I conducive to longevity not and he add that many unmirr CI I people live long I le thinks twenty five Is I a good age for a loting man to marry and advises pomp mn who wish lo reach eighty lo have regular habits and lo woik moderately but 1 peislsicntly In some I good cause To such I as cant sleep he says Diminish Ihe strain upon up-on your mind and avoid care Irom announce and evil 1 thin correspondence of mine Is Inter esllng II through thin el Insight which It gives lola thin lives and habits of some public men Many of these Id men write firm characteristic hand Soma relate to give I mailer lor publication Canon Iarrar writes mo that he has a rooted objection to giving promiscuous opinions and dclallt of biography lo the press and that he must beg me lo kindly excuse ex-cuse him now iirRtiiKT sritNCKR WORKS Mr Herbert Spencer the great tclen list It now clghlyhve He wa a sickly buy and lie ha never had I good health I ShIll bIn life has been spent loi In lel hard work and he It now one ol the moil tkilllul men ot the world In the art 01 taking care of himself lie does most ol hit work by dictation and he save himself In enemy possiule way He hat lor years been troubled with Insomnia and though he is a good 1 talker he uII not niter iota dlscuislons the even ing He i drinks i lea and smokes cigar eUeJ He firmly declines do everything outside ul his own work and lie has a lithographic reply wluclhc studs out IJe il so to fir correspondent who write as tu liters Inch du nOt relate to this Hit tile hou that work and care are I the sec relsohlmm s wonderful working old age Huxley Is I an Jlher old scientist scient-ist who writes mo Hut he cannot supply Il tllllWfr r tile Information r which 1 want I His letter let-ter Is an autograph one and the hand Is fires and clear NIUIIAN HAH ON riKriiUAt IOU III The they Newman l Hall I who nuwat IJ J tevcntynlne I Is halo 1 and hearty and I writes a good business hand il > 51 Io reniiin In health tu three cure and ten and possibly by reaon of strength lo fourscore I would say Live accord ng lo Ihe hw of Godternperately and virtuously soberly righteously godly abstain Irom llethly lusts1 which liar 1f1ln1 Ihe soul was louIs advice lu young Timothy As regard X ere my personil habits I have I never smoked and during sixty years have wholly abtlilned from all Intoxicating I I elrlnkt I generally sleep from 1 1 tjo ur 1 1107 or 7 jo 1 sleep seven hours without waking I use a cold bath evcrv jitofnliu throughout the year lIalk about 10llr miles Cnan avelPum iVl our a slap I can 111I AII lell liholll t fatigue I generally have thne ter vices every bunda and am neON Mon dalsh 1 I sin nil average I preach frV linns weekly aid neither sutler from pain nor lillgue As lo overwork ol rr ron r I 1 llioo brain I would sup dive I up working ns soon as it Is I a weitlniss and del the chief briinwork early In the day Do not work the brain tale at night you wish lo sleep anil at tu worry do your duty and cast pour care upon nbc Lord content with I Ins t approval I il and a good conscience n q ttM I WASIIINelTOS I J C |