BE NOT OLD

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 49, 26 August 1930, Page 13

BE NOT OLD

ENEMIES OF YOUTH

Th« lack of self-knowledge makes a woman old, remarks an exchange. Unless she heeds the admonition. "Know thyself," she is. sure to allow negative conditions to creep into her life. And to be negative is to grow old.

Selfishness is one' of the greatest enemies of youth. Tho self-centred woman is so negative, and so far from selfknowledge, that she is always complaining that everyono elso is selfish. 'Selfishness cuts us offi from our friends and destroys our interest in life. It is a terrible hastener of aid age.

Another 7iegative is criticism, which includes sarcasm. The sneer is the devil's laugh. The woman who would avoid old age should spurn criticism, as sho would i shun, the plague, for , criticism carves old and ugly lines in a woman's face and causes the corners of her mouth to droop. Small-mindedness, the habit of lookijag backward, lack of poiso, indulgenco of temper, alt cause one to age. I Though she may be perfectly preset vod in other ways, those hard and jugly lines mark and mar her. Jealousy, another negative, makes a woman old. Tho woman who is always saying how torriblo the young people are those days, and telling stories about what they do, is bound to grow old quickly. The .woman who envies the wealth, social position, or the talents of another woman, is courting old ago for herself. Lack of sympathy makes a woman old, especially lack of sympathy with youth. Watch the woman who avoids children and "hates . animals. She is doomed to premature old age. Lack of.love is negative, and causes women to ago mi?re than any" other con-

dition. :':■. ■ • ;;'! - -.-"■.■ To experience-the sweet and softening influences "of love and motherhood makes for youth.: It is, therefore, necessary for the tmmarried woman to avoid negative condition -