HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 10

HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.

Tho recent death of Mrs. Julia Ward Howo took from us ono of the masters of life, eays a writer in the "Westminster C!azotto." At ninety she declared that life grew moro interesting to her every year, and m«ny charming stories are told of tho unquenchable youthfulnoss of her spirits. What a rebuke, exclaims the "Home Messenger," to tho dreary monotony of many of our livra! "What eager encouragement to those who fear, as youth is apt to fear, (hat all tho 'fun* will bo over for ever at hrenty-fivo or thirty! To ouo who has grasped at all the art of living, the'fun'—which .being in. torproted, menus tho interest, z«t, enthusiasm, that aro the birthright of youth —only deepens ns the years bring Vidor experience and richer wisdom."

But tho art of living, our contemporary goes on to point out, "must bo won by resolute purpose und constant practice. It moans tho continual renewal of our stock of friendships, of interests, of ideals. What kind of merchant would ho bo who never renewed his stock? Yet how many people try to carry on the business of life with the dwindling and shopworn stock of twenty or thirty years ago 1" "Aldrich was hero half a'n 'hour ago," Mark Twain once wrote, "like a breeze from tho fields with the frngranco still upon his spirit. lam tired waiting for that man to grow old." Aldrich was sixty-nino at tho lime.