Omaha daily bee., 1916-05-30
When Danger
Points Are
.SholUn
BY ADA PATTERSON.

here and there, o De quite FRANK,
those hairs are coming faster than
you can pull them out in your few
! leisure moments on Sunday. The
muscles of your face are growing
haecid They have a tendency to slip
down your cheeks and settle lszily
about youf laws You grow tired
sooner than you used TO and you sus-
pect sometimes that you cannot do
the same work in the same time as
you used 10 do. And SO you NOPE
and lenethen your face still more and
talk in flat, spiritless voice about
growing old
Fie upon you Fie and again fie
You arc not old For the forties in
4 this age OF illumination are late mid
summer, the fifties merely early au-
tumn Of life The medical men are
! discovering that the average age is
| lengtheuing out TO sixty years. II
used 10 be forty-fiye. Remember that
! that average is secured by Jumping
off human life with the still huge rate
OF infant mortality due to crowded
and unsanitary living IN the large cit
/ les The poor, doomed infants cut
/ greatly into the average length OF
1 life. That is his only might, poor
short-lived little one, so VIC may con
slider that il the average life is length
ened fifteen years, we may all OF US
benefit by that extension.
And If VIC believe we have fifteen
more years OF life, we have an equal
reason for believMg that we have fif-
teen more Of life's prime, that season
Of full enjoyment, enriched and mel
lowed by understanding, that should
be the most glorious part Of life.
Stop worrying about those gray
hairs and making them grayer and OF
greater number, ! beg Of you. II il
be your portion 10 have a silver crown
before yc" think 1t due, remember
that frs Of soft gray hair about
the face Is guaranteed 10 give dis
tinction 10 your appearance. ! we'll
remember 4 relative OF mine who was
a plain rather forbidding man. OF the
general coloring Of thunder cloud
until time turned his black hair and
beard 10 silver, Then his dark eyes
oOftened with natures toning down
OF his color scheme. His features
that had been hawk like in his hardt
youth seemed to ro.ad And those
who had disputed AZ 10 whether he
had been forbidding or only plain.
agreed that he was handsome In.
vlgoratc your scalp by massaging il,
by eating nourishing food, by exer-
Csc IN the open air and, most Of all,
by not worrying about gray hairs
The flaceid facial uuusclesS | know
A business woman who is determined
not 10 allow what she terms an ava.
lanche Of her features TO happen. She
showed me the simple apparatus
quadruplc fold Of soft old muslin
two inches wide and which she fss.
tens about her face at night as we
used 10 do by day wnen We had the
toothache. ....
"lt stands TO reason that If you
tie up the facial muscles for eight
hours a day it will help TO counteract
the slipping Of the otner sixteen" she
says And before ! go to bed ! en-
courage the muscles 10 stay in place
by running a piece OF ice gently over
them as long as can stand IT, But
| hadn't intended 10 usurp the pulpit
of the beautious Lima Cavalier and
preach pulchritude I am coming to
what lies upon my heart to tell you.
Don't think because OF the syfnp-
toms ! have described that you are
growing old, that me best part Of
life is gone, that soon you will be OF
no more use to anyone. This is the
danger point Of your life. but only
It you yourself make it so. There
are ten years, twenty years. perhaps
more, OF work and enjoyment OF the
1est OF life in you, il you yourself de.
tefmne that it will be so.
The physical signs OF decay thar
you notice may nor persist, not If
you change your regimen OF living
But what matters most is the spirit
within yourself II Is greatly true
that we live by the spirit. If you Ia,
ment the passing OF youth and use
iulness you will yourself aid their
passing
BE stronger than the trend Of
things, mightier than commonplace
influences in your life
This is a danger point in your life
only as the guide post that marks
a corner in the road and that warns
slow down is\a danger point In
IS NOT dangerous II you are guided
by the lamp OF reason Drive more
slowly but drive ahead Do the work
YOU have been doing, hut do a ltt1e
less Of It or do il not as though
YOU were being whipped "a il
Fat a lttlls less and cat with less
haste. II will require sn hour Longer
for You 10 digest certain heavy food,
than il once did That isn't serious
Give Il the time
Most OF the troubles of hfs come
from over emphasis Don't empha.
slte either % Your family Or vnnr
business associates, those gray haita.
or ialling muscles Don't pui into
iheu minds that youth and useful.
ness arc passing RE wise and cheer.
iul AVID they never may pas,
hffe IS ra giving up time until
lealN commands There is nnlY
satual aHh lgbt iuossnlas unan ,As
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