Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — Cheerfulness and Health. [ARTICLE]

Cheerfulness and Health.

Men never break down in health so long as they keep a happy, joyous heart. It is the sad an I despondent heart that tires, and, whatever the load, we should always keep a cheerful spirit within. There nre two ways of meeting a hard experience. One is to struggle and resist, refusing to yield. The result of this is the wounding of the soul and intensifying the hardness. The other is quietly to accept the circumstances or restraints and make the best of them by enduring all cheerfully. Those who live in the first way grow old in the middle of life. Those who take the other way keep a young and happy heart down to old age, and often find the last days the best days and old age the happiest time of life.—[Detroit Free Press.

The oldest pensioner of the war of 1812 is supposed to be Isaac Hichards of East Machias, Me., who is ninety-nine years of age and lives in the same house with his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.