The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-04
ELIxIRs OF YOUTH.
From the Washington Post.


Rev. T. B. Gregory has contributed
an article to the press on the foolish
habit of growing old. Old age has no
friends, and every wayfarer in this
vale of tears throws stones at it. Greg
DRY prescribes no chemical formula, no
philter specially brewed, with which
to fight off the decrepitude of years.
On the contrary, his advice is so sim
pie that any one can follow it and re-
main young-if he have the tempera-
ment to place faith in his counsel.
This business of growing old" he
says, lis largely "a matter of will
power" In a cheerful strain, he con-
tinues:
I'VE grow old because we permit
ourselves to fall into the habit of think
ing that we are old.
I'VE give up and let co. we lose
our interest in things; we stop read
ing, stop thinking, stop taking a hand
in the game of life; and when some
body refers to us as being old we en-
ter no protest.
THE children are married the farm
or store is paid for; the old man is
fifty-five or sixty; the old woman is
fifty or f1fty-five and there isn't much
more to do except to-die.
ut is no uncommon sight to see men
and women hardly past their prime,
so far as years go, looking and think
ing and talking as though they were
in the last stages of decrepitude.
"They have allowed the fires of life
to go out in their hearts. They have
permitted themselves to become the
victims of that wretched disease, don't
care
In a word, they have ceased to as
sert themselves; have forgotten to use
their al tn1 h.
throne of their spiritual manhood and
womanhood, and allowed themselves to
pass under the sway of the lower
forces"
In conclusion he says: 1--WE cannot
stop the flight of time; we cannot head
off the one event that happeneth to
all; but we can keep on grow
keep on poisoning until the
end
Rev. Gregory's antidote for old age
differs materially from the specific rec
commended by Prof. f. ]. Kibblewhite
of London, who is said to bear the ex-
ternal evidence of the efficacy of his
formula. Prof. Kibblewhite prescribes
glacial acetlc acid. He says:
1T has been noticed that the animals
remarkable for their longevity have
the faculty of renewing at intervals the
skin or shell or other portions of their
frame in which the waste of the body
becomes accumulated.
After certain age the human body
apparently fails in it's function of re-
moving the dead waste of organic mat
ter taken into the body. These sub
stances accumulate in such quantities
that they cannot be disposed of, and
all ordinary engineer fails who does
nothing but pour oil into his engine
clogged up with dirt
IF this dead waste be dissolved out
of the body, the blood will do it's work
again effectually, renovating the lv-
ing parts as in youth. Otherwise it
goes on gradually clogging up the drain
pipes and hindering the excretion of
waste material that the healthy skin
action of youth promotes. Hence, as
men grow old their skins harden and
become like parchment, filled with the
1ndurated cement-like deposit which
can be felt in the flesh of old men.
Sixteen years ago, after a good deal
! of previous inquiry, 1 took up the use
of glacial acetic acid, solid at fifty de-
grees, as a means of dissolving the dead
waste out of the skin. 1 found it acted
magically. I used three parts of the
acid to one of water and applied the
preparation after the hot bath before
retiring at night.
II shampooed the body vigorously
| with the acid for ten minutes, and
| then got into bed damp I found in
my case and in that of others that this
| treatment cured govt and banished all
the aches and pains of fatigue"
Both methods of preserving youth are
interesting, if nothing more, and those
| eXperimentally inclined may find their
own specific midway between. The
| secret that Ponce de Leon searched for
in vain and Brown Sequard believed to
| have within his grasp may, perhaps, be
| obtained at the corner drug store for
a matter of few cents by going after
it with mind echoing to the music of
| rejuVenated hopes.