'How to Keep Young" by Belva Lockwood

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"How to Keep Young"

NOTED WOMAN LAWYER

I enclose an article. Hope
it is not too late. Have been
so busy in court that I did not
have time until today to write
it. I wish the ladies great
success in their undertaking.

Yours turly,
BELVA A. LOCKWOOD.
Washington, D. C.

(By Belva Lockwood.)
Have an interest in the town. Do not
fret. Do not imagine that some dreadful
thing is going to happen unless the
happening of it is inevitable, and then
take heroic steps to prevent its happening.
Do not get excited, be calm,
patient, thoughtful, and untangled by
word, and patience, every difficulty.

"Fret not ever! greet your neighbor
with a smile
From the rising sun to setting live
the present all the while."

Do not think evil of people, and
above all of your own family and
friends, or believe any scandal until
proven, and even then do not magnify
it. Do not allow your friends to report
scandals to you, but tell them you are
to busy to listen, and do not repeat
what one person says to you of another
unless it is in their praise. Commend
everybody for what they do, according
to their ability and opportunity
to do. Try to do some good to
somebody every day.

Master Your Profession.

If you are a working woman, and
every woman should be in one way or
another, and have a business or a profession,
make yourself mistress of it,
and do what you do, well, so that your
work will not come back on you, and
a hearty good work will, and get out of it
the best there is in it and in you. Get
your work through in time, and in order.
In way you will succeed and
success is the foundation of happiness.
Never allow yourself to think that
your work is drudgery, or despise it,
If it is menial, live above it. All work
as a rule is ennobling, and especially
when it is done in the right spirit

In these days, the greater part of
our women who have not had the fortune
to be born rich, are struggling for
economic independence, so that nearly
half of the world's work is now done
by women. Therefore every young woman
should, during her school days, or
directly after, perfect herself in some
line of work, that will secure for her
a comfortable livelihood. If she marries
and does not need it, or cannot pursue
it on account of her family, it will
still be an asset in her domestic life,
and something she can fall back upon
if left, as many a woman has been, a
dependent widow, often with children
to support. But she should never think
these children a burden, and will not
if she has the means at hand for their
support; and she will teach them in
turn to be self-supporting.

Aspire to Motherhood

A married woman, especially the
mother of children, is usually younger
looking than the spinster of the same
age [as she stays?] in touch with

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young life—interested in their daily
development—in their playing games
and education, and eventually in their
settlement in life. The highest and
holiest occupation of the normal woman
should be In the rearing of a
family under favorable conditions, and
therefore it should be the happiest but
this is not the privilege of all women.

Think good thoughts. Thoughts are
things. They form our character, they
come back to us, they write themselves
in our faces, they influence our walk,
our life, and eventually our success.
Do not quarrel with anybody. It is low
—it is belittling. It takes two to make
a quarrel. Your enemy cannot quarrel
with you if you will not quarrel with
her and she will soon be ashamed of
it. Angry passions write their lines in
your face.

Form good habits in youth, when it
is easy, and keep them up. Rise in
the morning at a proper hour, and retire
at night by 10 o'clock. Good and
sufficient sleep will have more to do
with your youthful appearance than
any amount of medicines, or other
advertised beautifiers. Take regular
baths, with brisk rubbing; keep the
pores of the skin open, and take outdoor
exercise every day, unless the
weather is too inclement, and then indoor
exercise, of which a little sweeping
and scrubbing, is not bad, may
take its place.

Eat regularly, simple, wholesome.
palitable food; and study what
agrees with your stomach, and what
does not. Many a woman has made
herself miserable and old from allowing
herself to contract indigestion,
which every woman can avoid if she
will carefully study the question. Dis-
pepsia is probably the cause of many
of our deaths, many of our divorces
and probably not a few of our murders
and suicides. It may be traced to,
many of the reports "Found Dead in

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Bed."

Taboo Too Much Medicine.

Do not form the habit of taking
medicine. Nature in nine cases out of
ten cures her own maladies. Do not
believe that you have appendicitis
even if the doctor tells you so. It was
never heard of when I was a girl.

Wear comfortable clothes, adapted to
the season, to your work and your

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condition in life, and no
tight shoes. Allow yourself
stomach, and hips as na
them; a hat that will allow
and turn your head without
ing a whole room [fall?], and
the ten commandments a
the law of Moses, and al
with you an abiding faith
seeing and ever present G