The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-22
How to Avoid Premature Old Age.

How 10 AVOID premature Ulu age
The following good advice is given by
DR.. Benjamin Ward Richardson: The
rules for the prevention of senile disease
are all personal. They should begin in
youth. 1t should be q rule among
grown-up people never to subject chill
dren to mental shocks and unnecessary
griefs. When, in the surrounding OF
the child life, some grave calamity hiss
occurred, it is best to make the event as
light as possible to the child, and Ger
tainly to avoid thrilling it with sights
and details which sir it to the utmost.
and in the end only leave upon the mind
and heart incurable wounds and oppres-
sions. Children should never be taken
to funerals, nor to sights that cause a
sense Of fear and dread combined with
great grief, nor to sights which call
forth pain and agony in man or in the
lower animals.
To avoid premature old age in mature
life, the following are important points
TO remember:
Grief anticipates age. Dwelling on
the inevitable past, forming vain
thypthotheses as To what might have
| been II this OF that had or had not been.
acquiring q craze for recounting what
has occurred-these acts do more harm
10 future health and effort than many
things connected with calamity. Oc-
cupation and new pursuits are the best
preyentives for mental shocks and be
reavement.
| Hate anticipates age. Hate keeps the
heart always at full tension. Ii gives
Il rise TO oppression of the brain and
senses. IL confuses the whole man. II
robs the stomach OF nervous power. and
digestion being impaired, the failure OF
life begins at once. Those, therefore,
! who are born with this passion-and a
good many, fear, are-should give il
up
expression of jealousy is old age, in
however young a face il may be cast.
Jealousy preys upon and kills the heart.
So, Jealous men are not only unhappy,
but broken hearted. and live short lives.
: have never known q man Of Jealous
nature to live anything like long life
! or q useful life. The prevention OF
jealousy is diversion of mind toward
useful and unselfsh work.
Unchastity anticipates age. Every
thing that interieres with chastity favorl
] vital deterioration. while the grosseI
] departures from chastity, leading to
specific and hereditary disease. are GER
tain causes of organic degenerations
and premature old age. This chastity
is preventive of senile decay.
: Intemperance anticipates age. The
more the social causes of mental and
i physical organic diseases are invest
gated. the more closely the origin of de,
generafive organic changes leading q
! premature deterioration and decay are
: questioned. the more closely does II
come out that intemperance, often not
suspected by the person himself who j.
!. implicated in it. so subtitle Is its infu-
:. ence, is ct the roet Of the evil.
! When old age has really commenced
1 its march toward final decay Is best de-
E layed by attention 10 those rules Of con-
servation by which life is sustained with
the least friction and the least waste.
The prime rules for this purpose are
To subsist on light but nutritious diet
with milk as the standard food, bui
It varied according TO season.
To take food, in moderate quantity
!. four times in the day, including ligh
2 meal before going 70 bed.
To clothe warmly but lightly, 81
: that the body may, in all seasons, main
tain its equal temperature.
L To keep the body in fair exercise, and
the mind active and cheerful.
To maintain an interest IN what is 70
ing on the world, and TO take part IL
1 reasonable labors and pleasures, q
though old age were not present.
i To take plenty of sleep during sleep
4 ing hours. To spend Zine hours in be-
at the Least, and take care during COLI
!. weather that the temperature OF tn
!, bedroom Is maintained At 90 degree
Fab.
To svoid passion. excitement, luxury
l-SeieIstife American.