Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — Recreation for the Aged. [ARTICLE]

Recreation for the Aged.

While spending a few days in the country during the month of November, weyvere invited to a Thanksgiving party. Here we met an old man just in his nineties, but stiil in good health and strength for one so aged. He showed us the kin.l of work he was doing to pass away the time, which would otherwise hang heavily on his hands. His granddaughter had taught him how to make aighans from woolen yarns of various colors, and he worked at it whenever he felt like it. We saw seversjl which webe very beautiful. His health, he said, ].vas benefited by the occupation, and he was happy in the thought that he ;.vas not idld- and of np account in the world. —Herald of Health, f 1

The rule of natural sequence isn’t always a dead certainty. Salt Lake is said to contain fewer baldheads than any city of its size in America. Somebody with a healthy brain that needs vigorous exercise is welcome to the field. We can’t spare the time to wrestle. with : the problem. Brides sh'ould never judge agroorb’s good q alitre3 by the number of pennyweights injpe wedding ring. TSa r. why la everythin e £tttMt at sixes orateeven*?*' Probably, my dear nervous sister, l ecausc you are suite ring from some o. the diseases pecul.ar to your sex. You have a " draggingdown ’ lea ing, the back ache, you are de. illtated, yop have pains of various -dnds. Take Lr K. V. ( Pler.e's ‘-Favorite Prescription” and be cu red. Price reduced to one dollar. By drnggHsts.