The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-22
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! THAT our bodies begin wearing out at the age 81
| i twelve, the startling belief Of Dr. Eugene Lyman
Fisk. director Of the Life Extension Institute Of New
York. as the result Of his lifelong study Of old age.
II your Mirror madam, reveals gray hair and crowsfeet
blame not your having passed the age Of thirty Old age
imprinted its first witherms kiss in childhood though the
| mark Of its cold lips was long in showing
Why do men and women begin to grow old when they
are little more than half matred2 You cannot answer
that question, for on two experts agree on why the death
rate OF young people has been reduced in the past thirty
years while that Of people over Is has increased
Consider two newborn babes, equal in health At 40
one is still youth The other is broken man-if still
alive Two generations ago nearly all men past 70 wore
long boards. carried stats and Rugged the grocery
stove Grandpa does war work and grandma dances
and wears short skirts But camouaage cannot halt the
Grim Reaper nor do years register the wearing out Of the
body There $3.50 peopei In Amemca over go years
Of age and 1888 who have passed the century mark They
are the rare EXCEPTIONS
BY lowering the death rate among young folks we have
increased the average length Of life We have also short
ened the average number Of years still coming for those
who have passed u.s.
The Rubner school Of Psychologists believe that death
is natural happening the fall Of Nithered leaves in
autumn. From the observations Of Dr. Fisk. our leaves
are withercd and falling dead in the summer Of life
Of men between 81 and 81 called up under the draft
~ PCT cent were tuned Gown on account or physical de-
fecs Old age has already sunk its alons into SO out
of every 100 Of our manhood The doctors figured that
than half Of these physical detectives were the direct
result Of careessne ignorance and lack Of physical train
ing-in youth.
How we check this increasing tendency Of people
70 die after they 252 The late Professor Mechniko,
the buttermk champion, led the scientists who believe we
could all live to be $50 BY correct eating Mechnkof
died at ~.
Old age is more than problem Of buttemlk, bran
bread and gymnasums Its gangsers are worry overwork
nervous strain, dissipation and occupatona poisons.
Alcoholic dissipation is itself ready for the undertaken
All the other partners Of death are in our social system
That means they can be fought conquered Better work
ing conditions and backing Of each individual
that will eliminate the poison Of worry and fear, form the
big anidote for the increasing menace Of death.
And if old age generally begins at H. the quicker we
nd this world Of child labor and give all city children
places play and exercise just that much sooner can we
shove old age aside until it does not begin until Slater
2O-and finally, when we get our industrial world near
perfection, no one will break down until old age comes
naturally, as the Creator intended.
We cannot all be like Numas de Cagna, native Of
Bengal the Oldest man in recorded history who died in
1856 at the age 370 but we can at least give this gen.
Grafton Of youngsters and the one: to follow fighting
chance.