THERE is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or, when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

R. L. Stevenson.

IT is a beautiful thing to be a charming young lady; but the best of all is to be a charming, helpful old lady. Charles Dudley Warner.

THERE is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and cheerfully and as faithfully as we can.

KEEPING YOUNG.

"ONE cannot live the longer by worrying."

It would be impossible to sum up in shorter or better fashion the address of Professor James Leonard Corning, Sr., former United States Counsel to Munich, before the Hundred-Year Club in New York the other night. His subject was the "Psychology of Old Age." Professor Corning held latter-day society, so called, in no small degree responsible for the brief life span of modern mortals.

"That arch monster called Society," he said, "is the enemy of modern civilization. It is the parent of a multitudinous offspring, waging merciless warfare against the physical and moral well-being of the race. It breeds a vast progeny of insincerities and falsehoods. It consumes the flush of youth and turns the cheek of beauty into ashes. It fills uncounted victims with an inward unrest which absolutely prohibits the conquest of longevity, except it be longevity congregated with aching joints and those of remorse and shame.'

DON'T WORRY.

WHY shadow the beauty of sea or of land
With a doubt or a fear?

God holds all the swift-rolling worlds in His hand,
And sees what no man can as yet understand,
That out of life here,

With its smile and its tear,

Comes forth into light, from Eternity planned,
The soul of good cheer.

Don't worry

The end shall appear.

Elizabeth Porter Gould.

WILLIAM BLAIKIE dedicates his book on How to Get Strong and How to Stay So" to "the memory of William Ewart Gladstone, the greatest Englishman since Cromwell, who, of lofty Christian character, and preeminent abilities developed under favoring circumstances, devoted a life of arduous, unceasing toil, ever among matters of great moment, not to himself, not to his own interests, but to the good of others; yet who daily so intelligently trained his body also that he was able to maintain a true equilibrium between mind and body, and so to keep both in consummate working-order far on to a ripe old age."

WHY MEN SHOULD EXERCISE DAILY.

IT is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigor.

Cicero.

Anything is better than the white-blooded deterioration to which we all tend. O. W. Holmes.

Four-fifths of the ills from which human beings suffer are caused by an insufficient amount of exercise.

The first requisite of success in life is to be a good animal. In any of the learned professions a vigorous constitution is equal to at least fifty per cent more brain. Mathews.

TIME still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. Edward Moore.

MUST THINK YOUNG.

THE secret of keeping young is to think young, to keep one's mentality fresh and energetic and interested in those things that interest the youthful folks, and to keep pace with the great changes that are going on around us. Take a woman and put her in a farmhouse, where even the echo of the great tide of human affairs never penetrates, whose life is spent in continual effort to keep the home in order and to clothe the growing family. At thirty she will have developed all the marks of middle life. Probably this same woman, working quite as hard, if placed in a large city would have managed to keep herself in appearance ten years younger. Why? She would have lived more outside herself. There would have been books and newspapers, art galleries and theatres, talks on politics and of the great men and women of the world to distract her thoughts from the drudgery of housework. The cobwebs would not have gathered in her brain, and her physical loveliness would have been preserved.

THE venerable Bishop Williams of Connecticut, for many years Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, and who lived all his life a bachelor, was talking one day with a young man from the West about a possible tax a western state was trying to impose on bachelors, the tax to be increased a certain per cent. for every ten years of bachelorhood.

"Why, Bishop," said the young man,

you would have to pay about $100 a year.'

at your age

Well," said the Bishop quietly, and in his old-time vernacular: It's wuth it.'

THE average length of human life is constantly and steadily increasing, having, according to Dr. George M. Kober, professor of hygiene in Georgetown University, D. C., doubled within the past three centuries. In the sixteenth century it was between eighteen and twenty years, while today it is forty. The principal agencies in this prolongation of life, Dr. Kober believes, are more attention to the air we breathe and more care as to the water we drink. This opinion is sustained by the statistics of large cities, which show that, owing to improved sanitation, the introduction of sewers and of public water supplies, their rates of mortality within the past forty years have been reduced to about one-half. Do you want to prolong your life and increase your powers? Then breathe deeply, and drink plenty of pure water between, not at, meals: not iced water or boiled water, but distilled water.