Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — Old Fogyisin. [ARTICLE]

Old Fogyisin.

The rubs, disappointments, and sorrows of a hard world make lotos land a necessity; and what most interests us is always seen through a lotos land mist. Youth looks forward, age backward, through this magical haze. What is ambition in the one becomes old fogyism in the other, and both are living in air-castles and develop their best thoughts and actions in this unreal abode. Fashion has changed much, but it has not ahanged the deeper tissue of the heart or the deeper nerve organization of the brain. It has written the ban against sentimentalism, but real sentiment remains untouched by its decrees. Fashioq itself has its old fogy dreams, and the worldhardened, cynical old dowager herself, who has closed her ears to praise or censure, nods paralytically before her fire, and finds her lotos land in the flaming coals. An old fogy is not old, though he be a patriarch as to years; age may have shriveled his flesh, robbed him of his teeth, and distorted his joints with rheumatism, but the sap of youth is untouched in h : s heart. He is the real and only successful alchemist; he has discovered the virgin earth called “old fogyism,” and by its aid is able to convert all the baser metals of life into pure and uneorrupted gold.— Boston Gazette. As if by magic one’s pains vanish if he be a sufferer from rheumatism or neuialgia and applies St. Jacobs Oil, the pain-ban-isher. For Coughs and Colds Bed Star Cough Cure is a safe, pleasant, sure remedy.