The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-06
HOW TO KEEP Young AND GROW
OLD.

Sfoverbially the good die young. but
according to a group Cf up-to-date inves-
tigators, the pbysiologically good ought
not to ole young, out to live young aud
grow very, very old in years sbont It.
The periis OF living without being
killed outright, to venture an Irish bull.
are growing greater every day. Already
we have the railroad train, the bicycls
and except in this city, the trolley car In
our every day life TO threaten us with ex-
tinction. And, as shortening existence
inch by inch, bile, ss q rule. we live more
comfortably than did our ancestors. on the
other hand, we travel and run about more
in a wearing and wearying sort Of a way,
we eat faster and more tumultuously, so
to speak, we rush in our business and we
worry over politics and things more than
cid our forefsthes.
But accidents aside. disease EXCLUDED
from consideration, and providing even &
composed temper of mind well developed,
We yet pretty generally come to the end be-
fore we reach the 90's. We die. OF sold
age, that is, of a general, hopeless, help-
lets sort Of wearing out OF the machinery.
There are purely physiological condi-
tions, marked by the growing old process
THAT science understands as to their fune-
tion and meaning, though 1t has not done
much 10 combat or remedy the condi-
tions. This is what the up.to-dste In,
vestigators propose TO do-to prevent the
growing old process, the mechanical and
chemical degeneration that we call grow
ing old andview so helplessly. Holding
that the chief characteristics OF old age are
deposits in the human system of earthly
matter of q gelatinous and fibrinous
nature, they propose a methcd for guard
ing against such deposits. Carbonate and
phosphate OF lime mixed With other salts
Of a cslcareous nature have been found to
furnish the greater part OF these earthly
deposits. Calcareous matter produces
partial ossification Of tho heart, thus
causing imperfect circulation, and, as a
natural consequence, Interferes with
nutrition. Eminent authorities assert
that the greater number Of people past 60
suffer more or less from arterisl ossihca-
tioD, which brings about distractions in
the proper and healthy circulation Of the
blood.
10 keep young then, and to grow In
years without growing aged, the thing
to do is to prevent the accumulation of
these calcsreous deposits, to keep them
of as long as possible. In invebtigating
he matter OF what to do about 1t, the
new science of living demolishes in the
first place ths whole structure of vcge-
tariaDism declaring, on eminent au-
thority that "a vegetable diet ruins the
blood and makes one premature,y old, II
IL is true that a man is IS old as his
arteries" As a life pi cserver the scien-
tist places first ana foremost, distilled
water-as distinguished from spring
water. One authority declares :hat "it
has been calculated that water of an
average qualify contains SO much carho.
nate and other mpounds of lime that a |
person drinking an average quantity |
ssch day will In ioTty years have taken |
rs much into the body as would FORM a |
pillar OF solid chalk or marble as large as |
good sized man." Three tumblcrfuls |
II distilled water, with about 10 or ID |
irops OF diluted phosphoric acid in each
,lsssfai, are r,connmendtd to To taken
iaily. The rational mode to keep physi-
al decay and deterioration at bay Is
shown to be to avoid all foods rich in
'arth salts and TO consume much fruit,
juicy. .uncooked apI les, oranges,
jgs, dates and bananas. Boef and old
mutton are oSercharged with earth salts,
nd should lie avoided; but fish, poultry,
Ioung mutton, veal, milk, eggs, nuts, are
mong the edioles containing lees OF the
artbly salts, and are scientifically recon-
nend,d. Soup is ostracized, SO is ordinary
coarse whole.meal bresd. which contains
more actunl wsste than white breso and
q not so thoroughly digested ms white
,,sd." Bread toasted In trim slices is
'e;ter than any other kino. Toasting
opveits be starch into dextrine.
The 'cbcme thus appears to be to avoid
II sorts OF 'alts. in other WORDS t. avoid
alting yourself down. Under a proper
egime, one ought to live easily an hum
red years, and there is no reason, II the
ystcm works. why We shouldn't live 200