The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-29
Keeping Young.

The question Pharaoh asked of ia
cob, How old art thou?'' is still up
permost in the mind OF all mankind.
as we'll as womankind, even If unspo-
ken. Among all peoples there is an
instructive dread of old age, more
greatly developed in certain persons
than In others. but shared in some de-
gree by all. Some pessimist has said,
Youth is delusion, manhood a strug-
gle, old age a regret" This thorough
ly unworthy view of life is not to be
accepted by sane thinkers, but it
touches a thought that has been more
or less in the minds of many who
look back upon their past with feel
ing that they have not reached the full
measure of their ambition and that
their life work has failed to produce
the results for which they had fondiy
hoped.
To approach old age with dignity ala
calmness is a contamination devout-
ly to be desired" and when one ne
calls the many cases of dignified age,
white haired and venerable, that are to
be seen, whose very presence in q
household or community is a bene-
diction, the fear OF old age becomes
less forceful and the future is awaited
with calmness born of faith that it
Is but the doorway to a greater life
and an eternal youth. -f-ls e
What constitutes old age? Some men
are young. The old age frosty but
kindly Of which Shakespeare speaks
is youth gained by a proper life and
by proper thought, and youth blase
and wretched, is an old age gained by
improper living and thinking. A no
ted medical authority has stated that
"a man is as old as his arteries are
hard" and this is the consensus of
opinion among Intelligent doctors who
have given the subject careful consid-
~-,&4 r-rr TFt1l- f~rr& TTTs
Metchnikoff, subdirector of the Pastcur
Institute, Paris, leading to the proven
ton of the condition which leads to old
age, have attracted widespread atten-
ton, and men of affairs, as well as
medical men, are deeply interested in
extreme, but very efficient in result.
Plainly speaking, it is the neutraliza-
ton of substances in the body which
become corrupt and are reabsorbed into
the circulation, poisoning the blood and
producing the condition that leads to
hardening Of the arteries and the It's
sues.
This naturalization Of the noxious
substances is, to an extent, brought
abut by the drinking of buttermilk. or
artifcially soured milk, and this fad,
which is popular in Philadelphia, has
a basis of common sense, which lifts it
from the limitations of a fad to that
Of a sound, practical, benefcent treat
ment. Metchnikoff elaborated the prin-
ciple, and his work on 1.-THE Prolonga-
ton OF Life" is one of the most read
able and instructive books Of the CEN
tury. The preparation made from milk
according to his prescription is far more
efficient than buttermilk. and lis rapid-
ly becoming as fashionable as it il 4
wholesome beverage.
Ponce de Leon failed to discover the
waters of eternal youth in the sixteenth,
century, and while Metchnikoff. in the
twentieth century. may not find the
waters of eternal youth, he has Ger
tainly discovered that which will tend
to the preservation of the arteries and
tissues in a condition that will con-
duce TO longer and more healthful lives
70 the BUSY men and women of Amer
lea and the world.-PhiladeIphia press