Show HOW TO LIVE common sense comments on heal health t h happiness and longevity by GEORGE F BUTLER A 14 M D Cupy riem LJ L J by international reuse prose bureau OLD AGE we should welcome the advancing years as did fleming in Long fellows Hy when he says for my linit I 1 am happier its as I 1 grow older when I 1 compare my sensations and enjoyments enjoy ments now with what they thet were ten tell ionis ago the comparison Is batly in favor of the hie present much of the lever and fretfulness of life Is over the world and I 1 look each other more calmly in the lie face my mind is more self relf possessed it if has dune done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat rind and drenched by the lie rain of life take heed wito thyself may be addressed to the old man iman with noth scarce ly iv less force of application than to the young in man inin in an all old man should mold avoid all sudden and extreme changes in occupation cu or modes of life regularity and must te be observed discipline Is sery nery important spasmodic industry prevents that development of a self regulating automatic generation of energy s saves the lie brain so much ile he needs to know the importance of proper ebere exercise ise and of sleep rest and recreation lie ile should d live simply being temperate in eating and drinking too much attention cannot be paid to the hie matter of feeding as to the quantity kind and quality of tile the food taken ilat bat moderately Y not t CM heartily nothing Is more desirable than to keep the brain active dont be a has been neep keep in the game gaine ani and live in this living age drawing fresh mental vigor from our bour daily intercourse with the young thought or of the acting world vor ld As wo we grow old we need to know that wo we will remain young if we keep the heart young and this we ine can do by mingling with the he young nothing will contribute more toward protract ing tile period of old ago age and aad rendering it healthy than the posies possession lon of a contented cheerful clie erful ind and hopeful state of mind cultivate the habit of looking for the best side of 0 things and keeping your attention used fixed on it it Is astonishing how much good there is in tile the world it if you look 1001 for it resolutely your own mind will keep sweet and serene and your friends will anel welcome you with a smile the man who iho has b sought the good all his days lias has stored up enough virtue to help him out of his hole such a man does not stop to tc bewail his failure he does net know the world optimism Is the foundation and crown or of nil all success As you grow old cultivate a sympathy for the world word at large for its weakness for the young arid and the return in and happiness will voll come to you a hundredfold old age and decline may be as genile and ewt and grateful as the sequence ce of blossom and fruit and liar hinr old age Is the harvest of life of which youth and early manhood are tile the spring and seedtime tile the fruitage of other years the storehouse in chich is gathered gatli ered up the product and result of our past labors experience and trials it Is possible po able for a roan man with winter minter on its ills lead head to have eternal spring in his heart to have no hate no grouch no prejudice to have a breath sweet as a babas muscles that do the bidding of the brain and nerves that never go an a strike to become old iu in years yet have the he freshness of perpetual prime to so live that hat x when lien he be drops the debris of the past lie will ull breathe the lie ether of immortality and his cheek mantle with eternal bloom LEARN ilow HOW TO LIVE VACATIONS talco it vacation when I 1 think of I 1 nil all the good times there are it ID this world which you and I 1 might bo be in if wo we only had ill the good sense to avail vall ourselves of our opportunities I 1 rm am inclined to think we are not to be commiserated so much after all it if we fall fail to have our good time Sf softener tener dont think you time to take it a short a catlon cation you have dont wait avalt for tile the opportunity to present iteck take lake the opportunity if one sat on shore and waited tor for some trig little boat from olt off the sea to still sail up to the strand draw one into it by some method ol of affinity unknown to science and carry one off to spain dont you think one would mould grow gray headed and wan before the voyage commenced I 1 it t Is lust just as silly and just as hopeless to for some full rigged opportunity to to draw near and force you on board without some effort on your part you will never set sail you will never go anyA anywhere liere if you to do not arise and go leave your work for a while leave bilings q undone if need be bother the shoo tile the obligations I 1 just on oil get up and go I 1 what oue one needs to be well and happy Is out of door exercise to get in touch with nature and forgot forget one oneself self the open air is not only a cuie tor for the body but for the mind as well nature la Is not only a fairy godmother not only a revelation of beauty but a guide and a teacher we are told that buddha went into the forest to look for truth ile left mankind and went to nature for help and you will be helped spiritually and physically by going into gods cods sabato sanatorium gium of out of doors all nature teems with joy and pence peace on summer days seeming to laugh and chatter and whisper to us of health healt hand and happiness there Is motion in the ground each rill and trunk of tree and stem stein of flower and blade of grass feels the thrill of affo and energy are abroad in the land and set et some orae s of us are discontented and feel ourselves misused because we happen to be it a little short of money now and then and it is hard to find the plums in our pudding or we tire sick or think we are and are despondent find and hopeless these thoughts ire are only the transient reign of winter it in tile the heart and are due largely to tho need ol of change a vacation get out of doors rejoice with the trees tile lie 11 flowers ers and tile the birds it is an exhilarating healthful and sublime uplift that they will give you it if you will but go to thorn them what has not quitting tile the crowded city for a change of air effected now how many has it not dot snatched from tile jaws of death row how many has it not saved from sickness I 1 ilow many con sump tives melancholy hypochondria cs arid and waning and harassed dyspeptics has it not restored to former healthfulness ful ness and joy go to nature I 1 it will strengthen your bodies uplift your souls arid and help you to forgot forget how tired and troubled you are and the slips of henith health and contentment you will gather 3 ou should plant in the neglected garden of your soul remember it is not always youth time any more than it is always slay may and grafts and shoots that grow readily in spring will talce take no r root 0 ot in bleak november cultivate your smiles and your simple services of love now arid and old age shall hall be but tin an afternoon trellis hung deep with perfumed roses as beautiful in tile the sunset glow as in the dawn davill LEARN HOW TO LIVE |