TO KEEP YOUNG.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 2

TO KEEP YOUNG.

Never retire from active life if you can possibly avoid it; beep “in the swim;” keep the mind active ; never refer to your advancing years, or say “at my age.”

To preserve youth you must have a variety of experience. Idle country woman ol forty, although breathing a purer air, and living on a more liea!thy diet than the city woman, often looks fifty, while the latter at the same age does not look more than thirty. But her mind is more active than that of her country sister; that is the secret of her more youthful appearance.

Nothing else ages one more rapidly than monotony—a dead level existence without change of scene or experience. The mind must be kept fresh, or it will age, and the body can not be younger than the mind. Few minds are strong enough to overcome the ageing influence of the monotonous life which rules in the average country home. City people have infinitely greater variety of life. They enjoy themselves a great deal more than country people. They work harder when at work, and when they are through, they drop everything, and have a good time. There is no doubt that the theatre has don - a great deal towards erasing the marks of age. People who laugh much retain their youth longer.