Arizona republican., 1904-11-25

youth, many do not heed thelr warn ing. After the first half or so of life has passed away" as the writer eX- presses it, instead of such periodical attacks of sickness. the unemployed material may be relegated in the form of fat, to be stored on the external surface of the body, or be packed among the internal organs, and thus he or she may become corpulent and heavy"
 It is a lamentable fact that such cor pulence, instead of awakening alarm in the minds of most people, generally evoles compliments. As soon as one begins to fiat up people are wont to say, You are looking so we'll" Yet in truth the poor victim.is committing a sort of gradual suicide.
 As middle life passes and old age comes one is tempted more than ever to crowd the stomach in spite of its increasing weakness. A vie is often most to blame for really hastening her husbands end, while earnestly believ- ing she is strengthening and sustaining him. "She observes that he is now more fatigued than formerly after the labors of the day, is less vigorous for business, for exercise. for sport. less energetic every way in design and exc cution. She naturally desires to see him stronger, and to sustain the en- feebled power, which age is necessa- rily undermining. She remonstrates at every meal at what she painfully feels is the insufficient portion of food he consumes. He pleads in excuse, aI- most with the consciousness of guilt, that he has really eaten all that ap- petite permits, but he is besought with pIaintive voice and arectionate en- treaty ito try and take little more" And to stay the current of gentle com plaint he assents, and, with some vio- lence to his nature, forces his palate to comply. thus adding a slight burden to the already satiated stomach"
 In addition to such coaxing to eat more, the old man is made the victim of specially prepared' foods, highly concentrated extracts and "pepsinized'' or "predigested" foods, so as ito intro duce the nourishment by hook or crock into the system Such foods, Sir Hen ny says, should be taken by old peo- pie only according to the advice of a physician. He also inveighs against the habit of drinking nutritious bev- erages, such as cocoa, at meals, a prac- tice which, he says, only overburdens the stomach and prevents it from di- gesting the solid materials. Even wa ter should be drunk sparingly at meals, because much of it weakens the action of the salivary glands and thus permits the food to enter the stomach imper- fectly prepared. One of the worst blun- ders, he says, is for an old person to drink milk at meal time. When such a beverage as tea or coffee is drunk it should not be swallowed at the same time that food is in the mouth. The habit of washing down" food is an injurious one, and also a hard one to break.
 Not one man in fifty lives to good old age when thus surfeited with food" says Sir Henry. ''The typical man of eighty or ninety years. still retaining a respectable amount of energy of body and mind, is lean and spare, and lives on slender rations."
 Alcoholic drinks are tabooed. Sir Henry says that until he was ifty-two years old he had been long a "moder- ate drinker," but ther he was com pelled to give up even the mildest bev- erages. Once since that time he re- sumed drinking wine at dinner, but found that he was injured by so do- ing. T felt unmistakable signs of the return of pain and stiffness in the joints," he says, together with the re- currence of sick headaches, from which I had suffered severely for many years before. From these I had at that early date obtained no relief, not withstand ing much treatment. until I abstained entirely from alcoholic drinks, when. after a few months, I lost my local pains and the sick headaches complete ly. Moreover, the joints gradually lost their stiffness, and ultimately became as supple and mobile as they were in youth, and continued absolutely so un- til this day"