Masters Of Old Age: The Value of Longevity Illustrated by Practical Examples | by Colonel Nicholas Smith
To make a right start in life is of great importance. To end life well is all-important. When Paul of Tarsus was in prison for the second time in Rome, and his martyrdom only a few months off, he wrote a letter to his young friend Timothy in which he said: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." Keeping the faith to the end is the supreme thing. It is the keynote of Masters of Old Age.
| Title | Masters Of Old Age: The Value of Longevity Illustrated by Practical Examples |
| Author | Colonel Nicholas Smith |
| Publisher | The Young Churchman Co. |
| Year | 1905 |
| Copyright | 1905, The Young Churchman Co. |
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Masters Of Old Age. The Purpose Of This Volume- Of books which teach young men and women how to avoid the pitfalls of life and how to succeed in business affairs, the quality is excellent and the supply adequate to the demand. Of books which sugges...
- Chapter 1. Staying Active And Productive In Old Age
- To remain active members of society and continue to do our share of life's work is a matter of vital concern to those of us who are classed as elderly people. Of course it is not always easy to dismis...
- Staying Active And Productive In Old Age. Continued
- Mrs. Hannah W. Truex of Caneadea, New York, has this happy idea of the duty of old age. In October, 1904, she celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday, and on that day had completed a quilt that contains ...
- Chapter 2. What Is Age In Relation To Mental Activity
- Carlyle says the richer a nature the harder and slower its development. He reminds us that the cabbage is the quickest and completest of all vegetables. He gives the story of two boys as an illustrati...
- What Is Age In Relation To Mental Activity. Continued
- Humboldt is an illustration of what a man is worth intellectually after he is sixty or seventy. It is true that he did some great things before he was sixty, but his greatest works were produced after...
- Chapter 3. Can We Spare The Old Men
- While the fact that numerous men and women have performed some of their best work after they have entered their seventies or eighties, shines out in biographical history, there is an increasing disreg...
- Can We Spare The Old Men. Continued
- The value of old men in public affairs is seen in the career of the late Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, who rendered an unbroken service in the Congress of the United States of forty-four years lacking...
- Chapter 4. Two Views Of Old Age
- When Hogarth's years were drawing to a close he executed a picture in which his purpose was to illustrate the end of human life. On the can vas was a shattered bottle, a cracked bell, an unstrung bow,...
- Chapter 5. How To Grow Old And Keep Young
- Among the active octogenarians of the United States there is none more beloved or distinguished than the Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler of Brooklyn, New York. He has lived a great life. He is still livin...
- Chapter 6. Old At Fifty - Young At Eighty
- An instance showing how one can take on age gracefully and increase his physical strength in advancing years is found in the life of Richard Henry Dana. There is peculiar interest in his case because ...
- Chapter 7. How To Grow Old Cheerfully
- Many persons have what is sometimes called a diseased feeling against growing old. They look upon old age as a melancholy necessity. But since advanced age is as natural as entering into life, why ...
- How To Grow Old Cheerfully. Continued
- The assembling of these bright old boys is a matter of interest to all who believe with Lydia M. Child that the rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully. None of the company was grim-vi...
- Chapter 8. You Are Never Too Old To Learn
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, in one of his admirable breakfast table talks, said for the encouragement of those who have passed the meridian of life, that he found that he could learn anything twice as easi...
- You Are Never Too Old To Learn. Continued
- When Mrs. Kamoo was sixty years old she settled in Boston and began the study and practice of dermatology. For the remaining twenty-nine years of her life she was actively engaged in her profession an...
- Chapter 9. William E. Gladstone. The Last Years Of The "Grand Old Man"
- In the history of the public service that man has rendered after he had reached the period commonly called old age, there is nothing so remarkable as the career of William E. Gladstone. When he died i...
- Chapter 10. How Intellectual Work Helps You Live Longer
- The familiar saying, Not work, but worry, that kills, is a truth well worth remembering. The false impression generally prevails, however, that a life wholly devoted to intellectual work is usually ...
- Chapter 11. How To View Sickness In Life
- Among the men whose patience, fortitude, and well-planned work during the last years of a long life should be a keen incentive to those who have arrived at a period called remnant of their days, Hen...
- Chapter 12. The Lives Of Three Distinguished Engineers
- Thomas Hood once asked the question, What can an old man do but die? The author of The Song of the Shirt always held a pessimistic view of old age. He was a chronic dyspeptic. It was hard for him ...
- Chapter 13. Dr. Robie. Half A Century's Service In One Church
- It is said of athletes, boxers, and wrestlers, that they have a second breath. After they have about spent what may be called their first strength, a rallying of the system takes place, when they ar...
- Chapter 14. Lives That Rebuke The Dead Line Dictum
- There are thousands upon thousands of instances which prove that the dead line of fifty is not only false but positively vicious. It is working intolerable harm in many ways, particularly in school ro...
- Chapter 15. When Is A Man Too Old
- It is delightful to set one's thoughts on the activities and achievements of men of character, force, and power. More particularly is this true of those who are not worried nor hampered because they a...
- Chapter 16. Stories From A Group Of Young Old Men
- A happy illustration showing how the last years of a long life can be spent in contentment and business activity, I find in the New York Tribune. In 1897 the paper noted the fact that deacon David E. ...
- Chapter 17. Bryant's Habits Of A Long Life
- One of the most eloquent sermons on the preservation of the mind and body is found in the every-day life of William Cullen Bryant. The death of any man who has lived beyond fourscore years ought not t...
- Chapter 18 . Stories Of Some Remarkable Centenarians
- A short time ago Leslie's Weekly said that centenarians are not such a prodigy in the world as to make the simple attainment of one hundred years of life an event calling for special comment This is t...
- Chapter 18 . Stories Of Some Remarkable Centenarians. Continued
- Mr. Hiram S. Cronk of Oneida County, New York, was one hundred and five years old in April, 1905, and died May thirteenth, 1905. He was the most distinguished centenarian in the country, not because o...
- Chapter 19. The Case Of Cornaro And His Long Life
- The experience of Luigi (Louis) Cornaro in respect to longevity and its relation to diet and temperance is one of the most interesting and instructive that has ever been recorded. He was a Venetian g...
- Chapter 20. Who Are Some Women Centenarians
- When the census of the United States was taken in 1900 it was ascertained that there were 6,298 persons between the ages of ninety-five and ninety-nine. Of this number, 2,432 were men, of whom 618 wer...
- Chapter 21. At Evening Time It Shall Be Light - A Choice In How To Live
- In 1882 Mr. Benjamin William Leader, of England, executed a painting which at once became famous because of the poetic suggestiveness of its meaning. The old church of Whittington, with its great blac...
- Chapter 22. Keep On The Sunny Side Of The Street
- When Dr. Robert Collyer, the widely known and highly honored Unitarian minister, became an octogenarian, two years ago, he gave out a recipe for living long and being happy. He has had experience. He ...
- Chapter 23. What Is The Art Of Living
- Shortly before the distinguished minister, lecturer, and reformer, Theodore Parker, passed away in Rome in 1860, he uttered this lament: Oh, that I had known the art of life, or found some book or so...
- What Is The Art Of Living. Continued
- It is a great privilege to live to an old age that is beautiful. The art by which one can attain to it may be difficult in many respects, but it is worth striving for. Thinking out a life of continued...
- Chapter 24. General Grant's Last And Greatest Victory
- It has been said that the best ages of the world, the best hours of history, are in touch with the periods of struggle. And we turn to the lives of men and women whose hair is whitened with age, and w...
- Chapter 25. What Are Some Characteristics Of Longevity
- In the literature pertaining to longevity there is much to encourage those who are advanced in years. The heart may weaken somewhat, the body shrink, the hair whiten, the teeth decay, but after all th...
- Chapter 26. What Are Conditions For Longevity
- The question of the possible extension of human life has attracted considerable attention among medical men and scientists of Great Britain of recent years. Sir Henry Thompson's volume on Foods and Fe...
- Chapter 27. How To Conserve The Energies Of Elderly People
- It will surprise men of sober thought and understanding to learn that out of a male population of 38,800,000 in the United States in 1900, only 176,571 were eighty years old or over. These figures pos...
- Chapter 28. How To Live The Simple Life
- Another distinguished physician to come to the relief of that large class of aged persons who ought to be interested in the question, How to live the simple life, is Roger S. Tracy, M.D., formerly R...
- Chapter 29. The Beauty Of Old Age
- A few days before John Greenleaf Whittier celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday, in December, 1891, the New York Tribune said: One day this week a young gentleman in Amesbury, Mass., known and loved ...
- Chapter 30. Old Age And Death Or The King Of Terrors
- William C. Gray, LL.D., editor of The Interior, Chicago, from whose Camp-Fire Musings I have previously quoted, was a man of splendid powers. By his manner of life he demonstrated as fully as any pers...
- Chapter 31. Long Life. How And What To Eat
- The proper study of mankind is what to eat and how to eat it. This is not precisely what Pope said, but the sentence as written is nevertheless correct. We eat to live, and what we digest is of more ...
- Long Life. How And What To Eat. Part 2
- There is another matter relative to old age and diet which is of vital concern. The rule is that leanness and longevity go together. This is a law of nature to which there are comparatively few except...
- Long Life. How And What To Eat. Part 3
- Dr. Hutchinson, an eminent English authority, believes that the proportion of animal foods (meat, eggs, milk, fish, game, etc.), to vegetable products, should not be more than one part of the former t...
- Average Composition Of Some Common Foods
- Water. Proteid. Fat. Carbohydrates. Porterhouse steak 52.4 19.1 17.9 - Sirloin steak 54.0 16.5 16.1 - Round steak 62.5 19.2 9.2 - Granose flakes 5.84 13.64 1.65 72.73 ...
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