MEASURING YOUR AGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20898, 13 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

MEASURING YOUR AGE.

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a temper of tho will, a quality of the imagination, a vigour of the emotions. It is a freshness of the deep springs of life. " Youth means a temperamental prodominance of courage over timidity; of the appetite for adventure over tho love of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty more- than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. And worry, self-distrust, despair—theso are the long, long years that bow the heart to the dust. " Whether sixteen or sixty, there is in every human being's heart tho lure of wonder, tho sweet amazement of the stars and star-like thoughts, tho undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing fchildlike appetite for what next, and tho joy of the game of living. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. In the central place of your heart is an evergreen tree; its name is So long as it flourishes, you are yonng. When it dies, you are old. In the central place of your heart is a wireless station. As long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage and power from the Great Source and from your fellowmen, so long you are young. When the receiving set blows out, you aro done."—