NOTES FOR WOMEN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6382, 3 December 1907, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

KEELING YOUNG. “Never give* in to growing old and vou havo the secret of keeping young." Hold on to your activities and to your Cithn-Kwrus. Work keeps one young; work with hand, and heart and brain; vouth is filled wit It hope, with faith in seif and in human kind, therefore she who would be young niUbt ke-p the spirit fresh. When one eays of a person in the fifties. ‘'She k a nice old lady,"’ or, “Hu is a nice old g.aUeiaon," cue is very much mistaken in the mo of the ward old—oftentimes the poison referred to is doing the bc.-.t work. When one h:t»3 rc&ched flic eighties, “nice old ladv" or ‘’nice old gentleman*' is a compliment to be expected. At seventy there may be ten year* of service before vs. At eighty one may still be unciu!, “for they also serve who only stand and wait." As long an one i:- in the world something can bo found to do. To keep young one must keep in touch with the young, with whatever imprests them, Fathers and mother usually retain their youth better than do single men and women, for the fresh budding lives renew the springtime and cummer of their own. (his must keep up with the limes, it is not the youth who lags behind the procession. Alertncv-o 1 belongs to the growing, receptive brain. The- world owes much and gladly pays its debt of honour to the young old men who havo been a power at an age when others have been willing to seek the chimney corner. In such men one finds the virtues of youth Umpired by the judgment of age. One should not, Eke a snail, crawl back into his uhell as age but rather rejoice in the sunshines of the daily life around him. There are new avenues of benefit and pleasure to be enjoyed, now branches of learning to be sought. Yean? need be no hindrance to the acquirement of knowledge. Sir Moses Monlefiorcw lived for more than a century, and held his force of intellect to man 3’ eminent persons among all elvi-lb-e;l nation-:* whese love of learning accompanied them through more than the usual years of man. Julius Ward llowc learned Greek after she was “seventy years 3'oinig, making for herself a. delightful aftermath."

The unselfish are always young. Tho body nm3’ fade, but “the heart never grows old." Nothing brings ago like tho fear of growing old, of being no longer recognised as of use in the world. Human lives yield their increase in tli 'ii’ anhinin time.

Then are the sheaves garnered. If tho springtime and summer have been well spent, the fruitage will ba welcome and beautiful, and time will have touched with greater loveliness than that of youth the man or woman who lias kept a young heart through all tho vicissitudes and .sorrows of years.