The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-11-21
STAY YOUNG IN YOUR MIND EVEN IF YOUR
BODY GROWS OLD.

The problem of proongng life and maintaining youth
is having many solutions suggested
One man from Mexico says that any normal man can
live be 400 to 500 years old if he will conne his diet
TO raw rice, raw oats, and honey
Another man guarantees that diet of fruits will in
definitely delay the weakness Of old age and provide per-
ennal youth
We do not believe that either of these dietary systems
will lead to an unusually long life.
There certain varieties of birds whose G;,' are
theoretically perfect if perfection consists in eating the
food provided by nature in its natural state and yet
of the ordinary wild birds lives to any extreme age
There has been much question to whether the Bbli
cal characters who said to have reached great ages
computed their years the basis of the modern period of
three hundred and sixty-fve days.
recent Investigator has announced his belief that
the ancients of Genesis instead of computing their years
by otices and equnoxes counted the periods of the
years This would mean that the ancient year
would be about twentynine days long and that Noah,
instead of living $50 years, really lived only seventysx
modern years. and that MethuseIah the oldest man in
Biblical history, only seventyseven at his DEATH
instead of 969
There is peculiarly convincing dsproof Of this theory
contained the chapter of Genesis that rectes the
ages of these patriarchs
In the fifth chapter and fifteenth verse it reads "And
Mahaaleel lived sixty and five years and begat Jared,
and Mahalaee lived after he begat Jared eight hundred
and thirty years and begat sons and daughters"
Applying the lunar year theory to the birth of Jared
when Mahalaee was sixty-fve would make him father
when he only five years old-not very probable
circumstance.
There is little doubt that nancient times men
lived to great ages What contributed to their extreme
longevity is lost nhe of time as are other secrets
of those early days.
There is every evidence that the ancients knew many
things of which we are wholly ignorant
They able to harden copper a secret which mod.
mctalurgists have spent millions of dollars to reds
cover.
They have certainly learned in the applications of
hydraulics which are unknown to u.s.
There evidences that the principle of the fourth
dimension understood and used by them while it is
to us only a complex theory. !
There are not few who believe that old age is
mental disease, and that are only as old as we thin
We That if we THINK ourselves young we will stay
young.
We all ought to keep mentally young as long as we
can.
We should think young long after we are unable to act
young
Association will do much to proong youth. Hang on
70 the mental energy and ambition of youth as long as
you can.
Keep your eyes on the future, on the past Watch
'he road ahead, not the way you have passed over.
There is good deal that is inspiring in distances
AHEAD, even if you never reach with your feet the
hings your eyes behold
One of the greatest of American physicians is author.
ty for the statement that in fifty years the average
American life has been heightened fifteen years That
S doing pretty well.
If the profteers do not put too much of handican on
u.s. we may gain another fifteen in the next half century
nd keeping that up, will eventually live to be re-
pectaby old instead of dying as we do now in what
houd be our period of real youth
When we get to living four or five hundred useful
ears we will be able to do something worth while for
he world, if we work hard all the time We will be r
be by careful selection, to read quite lew of the good
looks and learn fraction of the things we would like
o know.
For the present cannot plan much beyond the tire
core years and ten and, taking out the time fOoshy
waste and the time we have to devote to eating and Sleep
g means that the most careful hardly get started in
he pursuit of knowledge before the earthly race is run
nd we are put away, and shortly we are forgotten.