Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-31

tied with more vi ltNS iNS v
larity a ladies' natatorium on
the edge of the sea. Women
and girls 20 there by the hun
dred to swim and lave In the cool green
salt water. There is reception room
where they frequently rest or eat
biscuit before going home after their
bath. / have noticed In that room
could not help seeing 1t, could lY-that
many women Of 40 cannot stoop over 10
hutton or tie their own shoes, nut nave
some little daughter or an attendant 70
do IL for them. These women look ex-
tremely healthy, strong enough 10 chop
wood II they had to, yet In the prime OF
life. with muscles that ought to swing
and thrill and expand In triumph, hard-
n a woman of them all could stoop
down | don't know when ! have been
more discouraged with middle aged "o-
man. the lumpish, oxlike, clumsy crea-
ture Of this type.
The women's daughters were timber
and active: the mothers, who ought 10
have been vet stronger and more active,
were content to slump down into de-
crepit HELPLESS old bodies at 40 to oO
wears of age. Worst Of all, they seem
ed TO be quite lost 10 any sense OF
shame In the matter
Human life Is lengthening' IL IL
quite possible that several OF you VINO
are middle aged and who are now read
ing this will have TO live TO be nun
dred. Are you preparing to DO IL IN
good shape? Can you ride a bicycle
two or three hours at stretcn ana
make whole days journey on II, Win
occasional rests? Can you walk zen
miles? Can you stoop over forward
without bending your knees particle
/ and lay the palms Of your HANDS nat
upon the floor? After you are dressed
and laced up in your sideboards can
you stoop over and pick up your mana
kerchief off the floor? Above all, can
you tie or button your shoesY
Again. when you sit In chair do you
PUNK yourself down like lump or
putty striking a brick, with no more
ease or suppleness or lightness IMAM
that? Once more, when you rise from
that chair do you lift yourself quickly
and gracefully with your feet without
touching your hands or elbows to the
sides of the chair, or do you pry your
self up by your arms, with grunt and
groan like rickety old wagon start
ing to mover
Or do you never think anything about
these matters at all? IL you do not,
| let me call your attention to, let US say,
the average OF women a generation old
err than you are. Look at them, study
them. They are the women who prob
ably paid no more attention to keeping
their bodies In active condition than DO
you now. There they are, deerepit tot
terlng wearing hideous loose gowns
and sloppy slippers, rarely leaving
home. tended like babies months old,
with nothing Of the baby's sweetness,
hut with their bodies in a state OF re-
pulslve senile decay. They have LEI
themselves slump down physically and
their minds have gone to pieces In pro-
norton. for a clear, strong mind cannot
manifest through neglected body.
We'll. these helpless old creatures are
absolutely useless in the world, Just
waiting till death collars them with his
bony fingers and says, Come alongl"
Honestly and truly, my lady OF 40 or 80
or GO. are you willing TO become like
that? Do you believe 1t Is necessary TO
become like that? Listen while tell
you,
Look you at Nine. Sarah Bernhard
the most marvellous old young woman
alive. playing perfectly the character
Of a boy of 16. have seen her in "LAi'
glon" her face scarcely made up at all
for the part. | have also seen her In
ordinary womans attire, and no guess
ing would place her much past 80
Awhile ago a reporter asked her how
she managed to look so young.
Look young?' said Sarah. II look
!, young because am young" Sarah wifi
be 60 next birthday. Next to her IN
domitably youthful spirit and menta
activity, It is her incessant physical ac-
tivity that keeps her young, Fresh all
J and constant physical exercise are tC
} her the bread Of life.
! Look you, again. at Professor Erns
Haeckel. the great biologist, 81 year,
old. bounding up stairs two steps at a
, time. now In Java exploring under tn,
. tropical sun to find remains Of the fos
sill ape man At college nearly 80 years
ago Haeckel was one Of the champion