HAPPY THOUGH OLD

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3376, 2 March 1920, Page 7

HAPPY THOUGH OLD

"I Am the happiest man in the world. It seems to me that I have just begun to live." Thus Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, who recently celebrated his eightieth birthday. "I am happy because lam still able to work. My mind is as acute as it was twenty years ago. I have my health, which is best of all, and by writing my biography I am keeping my mind occupied. That is the secret of happiness in old age." Golden rules of happiness and health were once given to the writer by Mr. Frederic Harrison, the famous historian, philosopher, and critic, who is still writing books at eightyfive.

"Touch not tobacco, spirits, or any unclean thing," he said. "Rise from every meal with an appetite. Walk daily for two hours. Sleep nightly for seven hours."

"Work, work, work. That is what keeps the bra-n active and the body healthy. Ido not intend to grow old." Miss Genevieve Ward, the octogenarian actress, lays down this axiom as the secret of perennial joy. "And keep laughing," she adds. "Undoubtedly cheerfulness leads to a long and happy life." That she is as happy as anybody in the social work upon which she is engaged is the confession of Mjs. Despard, the veteran Suffragist and sister of Lord French. "It is not that you are happy, but the fact that you are making other people happy, which counts."

Sir Edward Cooper, the Lord Mayor-elect of London, says that he is perfectly happy at seventy-one. "Good health, the ability to enjoy life, ambition and that true helpmate, a wife, go towards making one among the happiest of men."