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CHAPTER X.
OLD AGE, AND ITS REQUIREMENTS.
"In age to wish for youth is full as vain,
As for a youth to turn a child again."
Denham.
As for a youth to turn a child again."
Denham.
"What is age
But the holy place of life, chapel of ease
To all men's wearied miseries? and to rob
That of her ornament it is accurst,
As from a priest to steal a holy vestment,
Ay, and convert it to a sinful covering."
Massinger.
But the holy place of life, chapel of ease
To all men's wearied miseries? and to rob
That of her ornament it is accurst,
As from a priest to steal a holy vestment,
Ay, and convert it to a sinful covering."
Massinger.
THERE is always something harsh and painful in the manner in which the anatomist and physiologist has to develope the characteristics of old age. The rude rending of all the drapery, the removing of the veil from the fading brow, and bringing out with microscopic precision every furrow that time has made there, seems unkind and almost cruel. There is a natural desire in every woman to retain to the last the charms of her sex; the dread of the isolation of age makes her battle with time, and
