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A HEALTHY MAN.
Here Are the Points That Go to Make
q Centenarian.

a Centennrian.
Here are the points Of a healthy man.
If you have them all you may, barring
accidents, count on being a centenarian.
If you have most of them, you'll reach a
ripe old age, but even if you have only q
few don't be alarmed, for many apparent
ly crazy human machines last surpris-
ingly long time.
First, your body and limbs should be
plump, but the plumpness should be Of
the firm and muscular, not the feshy type
Your figure ought to be erect, and, whether
you are tall or short, we'll proportioned.
Length without breadth is very bad
thing in a man, for there is no room for
vital organs large enough to thoroughly
perform their duties.
Your step should be springy and elastic,
your gait firm and easy. These things in
dicate 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, forid or
subject to sudden fushings. But In this
matter your occupation has great inf1u-
ence and you might have the worst posi-
BILE complexion and be in 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 correspond In size. Ii
you feel your pulse, it should be regular;
if it drops beat now and again or beats
very fast and excitedly after the least ex-
ertion or emotion then the heart is weak.
Your breathing should be tranquil and in
audible. Any sounds mean that the pas
sages are more or less clogged.
You should not know you have stom-
ach-that is to say, as q rule. Of course
there are times when that organ gets out
of order in the healthiest individual, and
then it is always sure to make its owner
aware Of its existence. You should al
ways, 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, without
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 q stranger to sore throats.
Your appetite should not be too great or
too small, while you should not be suf-
ferer from headaches, giddiness or neu-
ralgia, and, Of course, you should not have
palpitations or Paintings or varicose veins.
If you answer to the above description,
you have neither disease Of the brain,
spinal cord, heart, lungs. liver, stomach,
muscles or nerves, and you are in as per-
feet health as it is possible for human be-
ings to be.
But at the same time many round
shouldered narrow chested, thin and sal
low man is as tough as steel, works hard
and lives till he is almost tired Of the
world, and, of course, even the healthiest
of US must go through course Of colds,
coughs, headaches, dyspepsia attacks and
the like.
Still, if your chest is small in proportion
to the rest Of your body you are likely to
have less stamina, and you should not
overdo such things as football, cycling or
even brain work. New York World.