El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-06

ficiency Of this tissue is liable %
cause wrinkles One observes such a
condition in an exaggerated form in
the shrunken old woman whose face
is network OF burrows, resembling q
dried Up apple
Hair Becomes Dead Looking
As age progresses. the fatty tissue
beneath the skin gradually thius out
One may notice the result in an old
persons wrinkled hands But a much
earlier symptom Of ageing-indeed.
u begins to appear as soon as first
youth has passed-affects the hair.
which loses its brightness. This is be-
cause the individual strands become
less smooth. and less oil is upplisd
by the little gland at their roots BY
the time middle age is reached the
hair may have acquired a dead" look
But women. BY the adoption Of clever
articles. are able to put VI a fairly
successful fight against this attack
OF nature unon their beauty
Hard Work Hastens Axe.
Hard work. or hardship Of any kind.
ages a woman very rapidly It Is said
I that the girls employed BY tens OF
thousands in the munition factories
Of England show the effects Of man
ual toll in a disastrously rapid loss
Of youthful bloom. The average far
mer's wife is old at 40. On the other
hand. easy and comfortable living
augments beauty and preserves il in =
wonderful way The rich mans wife.
who Tolls I'm the lap Of luxury. does
no work and has no anxieties. retains
much Of her freshness. and at so nay
look no more than s.
The daughters OF wealth nowadays
are reared from childhood Tor beauty.
They live healthfuL outdoor lives.
and everything imaginable is done to
enhance their physical charms. ANY
thing that might impair the latter
after they have reached young wom-
anhood is painstakingly avoided; and
: from that time on utmost effort IS
made TO retard the processes by which
ageing OF their looks is accomplished
To defer middle age and, later on. to
postpone old age, is the one great and
unceasing struggle Of the woman
privileged to enjoy life OF luxurious
ease
II a woman wishes 10 know how
old she viii be when she dies, she can
find out by subtractinE her present
age from SO and dividing the remain
der by two. The result will be the
number Of years she mas to live. Thus.
II she be 40 years old, this number
subtracted from Sc leaves As and.
dividing by two, Il appears that she
VIII live % years more. dying at So
or course, this is only an empirical
formula. representing the average
Woman's expectation OF life at various
ages But IL works out with surpris-
ing accuracy when the results Il
gives are compared win the reckon
iuEs OF the life insurance conpanies.
Two women are celebrated in HIS
tory for having attained extraordi-
nary age One Of them vas the coun-
tess of Desmond. and is said to have
Z reached 145. The other, Margaret
Patten, is understood to have died
at 49, But Investigators OF the sub
/ 1ect are now convinced that all such
records OF seemingly impossible lon
gevity are unreliable. and presumably
incorrect. The persons concerned
lived at a period when no written
chronological data were kept and
when it was customary 70 fix dates
by associatinC them in the memory
with other events believed 20 have
occurred about the same time
The government census bureau has
published the opinion that no woman
ever lived 10 be more than los years
/ OF aEe-this being the utmost Pos
sible limit Of human survival.