Volume 107 — LINES BY A LAZY BODY.
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[M. St. Hilaire, the French politician, who is ninety years of age, and still active, says:—"If you want to live to be old, be always at work, and diligently. Do not listen to those who aspire to save enough money to rest. They are lazy bodies."]
'Tis the voice of the Lazy, I heard him complain, "All this nonagenarian nonsense Won't do! This mere love of longevity's vain, Although natural, doubtless, in one sense. The secret of Age, St. Hilaire may have told; The secret of Youth can he give? We'd learn, not to live to be awfully old, But how to keep young while we live! No, no, chatty nonagenarians! Loan us The gift of Aurora, not that of Tithonus."
"Rational Dress for the Irrational."—A penitential sheet, and a foolscap trimmed Phrygian fashion.