The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-06
ARE You REALLY WELT
II You Have These Points You May Be

come Centenarian.
Here are the points of healthy man.
If you have them all you may, barring
accidents, count on being gentleman
ian; if you have most them you'll
reach a ripe old age; but even If you
have only few don't be alarmed, for
many apparently crazy human ma
chimes last surprisingly long time.
FIRST, your body and limbs should be
pump but the plumpness should be of
the firm and muscular not the heshy
type Your figure ought to be erect
ana, whether you are tall or short
well proportional. Length without
breadth is very bad thing in man,
for there is not room for vital organs
large enough to thoroughly perform
their duties.
Your step should be springy and elias
tic, your gait firm and easy. These
things indicate muscles of good quality
and nerve of good tone. Your eye
should be bright and neither prominent
nor hollow. Bright eyes show that the
circulation Of blood in the brain is
good.
Your complexion should be clear and
fresh. 1t is usually not well with you
when your face is pale salloW florid
or subject to sudden fiushings But in
this matter your occupation has great
influence, and you might have the
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perfect health. But that, of course, is
the exception, not the rule.
Your head should not be very large,
or at least, If it is large. your neck.
shoulders and chest ought to CORE
spond in size. II you feel your pulse
1t should be regular: if it drops beat
now and again, or beats very fast and
excited after the least exertion or en-
otion. then the heart is weak. Your
breathing should be tranquil and in
audible. Any sound means that the
passages are more or less clogged.
You should not know you have a sto-
maeh-that is to say. as a rule. OF
course, there are times when that or
gan gets out of order in the healthiest
individual, and then it is always sure
to make the owner aware of its ex-
istence. You should always, except
when the weather is bitterly cold, feel
comfortably warm through your whole
body. even to the tips of the fingers
and toes. Otherwise something is
wrong with the circulation or the heat
producing apparatus.
You should have sound Sleep with
out dreams or Nightmares, and it should
not last too long or too short-say eight
to eight and half hours every night
Your voice should not be hoarse and
you should be stranger to sore throat:
your appetite should not be too great
or too small; while you should not be
a sufferer from headaches, giddiness or
neuralgia, and. of course. you should
not have palpitation nor fainting nor
varieose veins.
If you answer to the above descrip-
ton you have neither disease of the
brain, spinal cord. heart. lungs, liver.
stomach, muscles nor nerves. and you
are in as perfect health as it is posi-
BILE for human beings to be.
But at the same time many a round
shouldered. narrow chested. thin and
sallow man Is as tough as steel. works
hard, and lives until he is almost tired
of the world. And, of course, even the
healthiest of us must go through a
course of colds coughs, headaches, dys-
peptic attacks and the like.
Still. If your chest is small in proper
ton to the rest of your body, you are
likely to have less stamina. and you
should not overdo such things as foot
ball. cycling, or even brain work.