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live. "Well, sir," he answered sturdi- 

 ly, "I'll take that chance," and he did 

 and lived. The will to be young- is no 

 small help to the result. 



Adelina Patti is a good illustration. 

 She wished to be youthful and believed 

 it possible to be so. In her opinion the 

 greatest foe of youth is ill health. 

 "Whenever we are sick," she says, "we 

 lose a part of our youth. Every con- 

 valescence requires an expenditure of 

 vital force and is so much subtracted 

 from one's life capital." Good health 

 she believes to be within the reach of 

 all. Much of the feebleness of women 

 is brought about by the obligations of 

 conventional social life which bring 

 neither enjoyment nor usefulness but 

 awaken ambition, envy and bad tem- 

 per, the greatest foes of good health. 



Serenity of spirit is considered by 

 many as the one great secret of lon- 

 gevity. It certainly is a powerrul ally 

 of youthfulness. A statement of Sir 

 Benjamin Ward Richardson, M. D., 

 places the normal period of man's life 

 at about one hundred and ten years 

 and states that about seven out of ev- 

 ery ten people could attain to that age 

 if they lived aright. His advice is to 

 cultivate a spirit of serene cheerful- 

 ness under all circumstances and to 

 learn to like physical exercise in a sci- 

 entific way. Chauncey M. Depew gives 

 as his observation that longevity is in- 

 dissolubly connected with work. And 

 yet the healthfulness of work can be 

 destroyed by an adverse or fretful 

 state of mind. The mind is at the head 

 and it can be schooled to look upon life' 

 with cheerfulness. We may not be able 

 to realize our ideal but we can, as some 

 one has said, idealize our real. 



We see in the present generation a 

 small army of those who have set out 

 toward the goal of perpetual youth. 

 They are all of them busy, active men 

 and women, not acidly abstemious but 

 merely not gluttonous, serene for they 

 have faith in the eternal working for 

 good of all things. They are happy 

 for they are seeking the good of those 

 about them. They are counting their 

 lives not by years but by actions. They 

 will never grow old: Long may the 

 live! 



OLIVE EDDY ORCUTT, M. D. 



AMERICAN BOTANICAL GARDENS 



Botanic Garden of Harvard Univer- 

 sity: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 Founded in 1805, with about 7 acres 

 of land. The system of garden, li- 

 braries, museum, laboratories and 

 herbaria operated by Harvard Col- 

 lege, is one of the most complete in 

 existence. The Gray Herbarium and 

 Library is classic ground. The gar- 

 den itself is insignificant. 

 Arnold Arboretum: 



Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 

 Founded through a bequest of 

 $100,000, made about 1870, by James 

 Arnold, of Providence, R. I. Now the 

 greatest tree museum in existence, 

 ireely open to the public, covering 

 over 160 acres. 



Missouri Botanical Garden: 



St. Louis, Missouri. 



Established in 1889, through the 

 will of Henry Shaw, who devised 

 about 670 acres to the institution. A 

 very large herbarium and library are 

 being formed, with the Engelmann 

 collections for a nuclues. 

 New York Botanical Garden: 



Bronx Park, New York. 



This is a strong association of an- 

 nual members, who contribute $10 a 

 year each, fellows and patrons, 

 who, by co-operation with the city, 

 with 'Columbia University, and a large 

 endowment, have established a 

 superb system of greenhouses, mus- 

 eum, library, herbarium, arboretum, 

 and park. The sum originally sub- 

 scribed was $250,000, and a tract of 

 250 acres in the Bronx was set aside 

 for its use. 

 f iversity of California: i 



Berkeley, ''California. 



The botanical garden supported oc- 

 cupies several acres, and contained in 

 1905 about 2000 species. The valu- 

 able herbarium and library has been 

 enriched by the gift of the Townsend 

 Stith Brandegee herbarium and bot- 

 anical library, presented in 1906. 

 Smith College: 



Northampton, Massachusetts. 



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