Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1918 — Beauty Hint [ARTICLE]

Beauty Hint

Housework, such as sweeping and bedmaking, Is extremely good exercise, and a good brisk walk, with head held high and nose sniffing the fresh air, when- you go to do your household errands is most wholesome, says a writer in Mother’s Magazine. At the risk of being considered a bore, I w’ant to urge again that the easiest way to growing old is to let yourself become a bore. That is one of the great dangers—the danger of narrowing one’s horizon, one’s subjects of conversation, one’s interest in the larger things of life. It is a mistake to confine your thoughts to the limits of your own town, a bigger mistake to limit them to your own and biggest of all is the fault of being Interested in people* only, not in the current events of the day. If you have never found the newspaper interesting, now, as middle age is creeping upon you, learn to be interested in it Get from the library a good magazine which reviews the politics, the history, the scientific advanca of the past month, and read it and talk about what you read.