The Jasper news., 1909-03-04


is stiff, his skin dry and hard, the
roseate hue gone from his cheek, and
the sparkle from his eye. Now what
causes this condition and how can 1t
he delayed, IL not ovefcome9
The hardening OF the frame, OF all
the tissues, including the arteries, is
due to the deposit in the tissues Of
mineral matter taken In the food and
drink, absorbed Into the blood and
gradually deposited, much as earthly
matter is deposited In tea.kettle or
slime and earth in city water pipes.
This mineral matter, chiefly phosphate
and carbonate of lime, destroys the
elasticity of the arteries and gradually
hardens the tissues, including the
brain.
Now there are two chief sources
from which this earthly matter Is intro
duced into the blood, bread, especially
fine white bread, and hard drinking
water. The percentage OF lime in
bread is large, and white bread is es-
pecially liable to form concretions of
lime in the lower intestine (often in
ducing appendicitis), which are alb
sorbed into the blood and deposited
in the tissues, gradually producing
that dry and hardened condition of
the skin which is distinguishing
mark of old age.
The activity of the brain is deter
mined largely by its blood supply and
when the arteries that supply 1t are
hardened by the deposit of mineral
matter it must become sluggish. Loss
of memory of recent events is an in
variable accompaniment of age: the
old live in the past. To live in the fu-
ture requires the vivid imagination of
youth with its plastic brain.
| Wonder is often expressed that the
farmer, who lives largely in the open
air, and has fresh fruits, vegetables
and milk at his door, does not live as
long as the professional man, who is
much confined in close rooms and has
little exercise, and that the common
laborer is shorter lived than the idle
rich, who are, as a rule, much given to
dissipation.
Aside from the waste of vitality
which the laborer, farmer and the ath-
lete (who Is usually short lived) are re-
quired to make in their daily work,
due to extraordinary physical exertion,
-o,se--rrIot-o-l--A-l ta-eunnlyl the
waste of carbon due to muscular work
(Which would be better supplied by
fruit sugar and vegetable fat, as al
ready expressed), and drink more wa
ter, because they perspire more. thus
leaving greater deposit of ashes in
the arteries and other tissues The
merchant or professional man who
takes moderate exercise by walking
than the average farmer who has
many advantages otherwise.
The skin of the laborer early be
comes hard, dry and wrinkled, because
of the more rapid deposit of minera
matter; the sedentary worker hardens
soon comparatively, because his cir
culation is sluggish. Moderate exer
else to keep the circulation in norma
flow, olive or peanut oil to lubricate
and to soften the tissues, are the ma
tural means of avoiding premature os
sihcation.
A beautiful complexion is an essen
tial element of beauty. The ideal IL
that of childhood, the bloom of you'll
upon the cheek. There is no substi
tute for the beauty of health
The average young woman, by thu
time she reaches mature age, begins
to look sallow and the face perhaps IL
disfigured with pimples.
Sallow skin, pimples and blotches O
all kinds are produced by failure o
liver, kidneys, lungs and skin to elimi
nate naturally the waste products o
digestion, whose retention is favored
by constipation. The tissues of thu
body, including the skin, become hard
ened as age advances, partly by th'
weakening of these eliminating organs
often prematurey. The skin and tn,
muscles underlying 1t become hare
and wrinkled by the weakening Of thu
normal metabolism, by which worn
out cells are carried away and new re
placed. AS the kidneys and liver de
} cline in power (or rather as the vital
ty that actuates them declines, will
advancing years. there is gradua
deposit in the arteries and in the tis