Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — Keep Young. [ARTICLE]

Keep Young.

Don’t grow old and rnsty and cross, afraid of nonsense and Ain. Tolerate the follies and crudities of youth. Gray hair and wiinkles you cannot escape, but you need not grow old in feeling unless you choose. And so long as your age is only on the outside, you will win in confidence from the young and find your life all in the brighter for contact with theirs. But you nave too many grave thoughts, too many weighty anxieties ana duties, too much to do to make this trifling possible, you say. The very reason, my friend, why you should cultivate fun, nonsense, ligh ness of heart —because you need them so much, because you are weary with thinking Then try to be youug even if you have to be foolish in so doing. One cannot be wise all the time. A valuable plastic material has been introduced in Germany for ornamenting and other purposes. Five parts cf sifted whitening!are mixed with a solution of one part of glue, and, on these being well worked up into a paste, a proportionate quantity of Venitian turpentine is added in order to prevent brittleness; a small amount of linseed oil is also put with the mixture to obviate its clinging to the hands, and the mass may be colored by kneading in any color that may be desired. The substance thus formed may be pressed in shapes, and used for the production of base-reliefr and

workocfliythe hand into model*—the bands to be robbed with linseed oil, and the mass to be kept warm during the process. On becoming cool and' dry, which takes place in a few hours, It is as hard ss stone. Parents, if you would teach your children self-control, control them. Not until they are led by your wills are they likely to be led by their own. Self-will is impulse, not. will The looses in Allegeheney county by the riot of 1877 were $8,925,591. finMrtCn.) MMta. There Is now a substance which is both professionally and popularly Indorsed, and concerning which Mr. J. B. Ferechweiller, Butteville, Oregon, writes: I have often read of the many ceres effected by St. Jacobs Oil and was persuaded to try the remedy myself. I was a sufferer from rheumatism and experienced great pains, my leg being so swollen that I could not move it. I procured St. Jacobs Oil, used It freely and was cored. A civil war in the Transvaal is now expected to succeed the peace between the Boers and the British.