Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-08
NOTED DOCTOR DISCUSSES
means TO WARD Off AGE
Holds Parents Should Begin Early to
Educate Children to Be-
main Young.
CARELESS HABITS OF LIVING
Authority on Sociology Declares He
Has Seen Symptoms of Advanced
Life I'm People Scarcely More Than
/ Thirty Years Old.
NY. DIR. WILLIAM A. meKEEvER.

BY. DIR. WILLIAM A. MeKEEvER.
Begin now TO prepare your child to
. ward. or old age. one or two early
faults In feeding or training. one or two
TeasIly detected careless habits of liv-
Sing, may IN time become the destruc-
Ssive agency which VIII make your child
sold and broken at sixty. or Atty or
esven at forty. 1 have seen few men
who had developed practically all the
symptoms o. cid age 81 thirty.
\ We owe II 20 the senerat!on OF boys
and girls now among Us 70 Keep Them
sroung- We owe Z; 70 society and to
the race to demonstrate our ability u
Keep. Ordinary man Ni-!le and Fl, up to
IAN advanced age Judging rom the
Urea sury OF inheritance hidden within
Scur common nature. and ~ acting TO-
EetheF vigorously upon Iha; knowledge
I'm the use o. available methods Of
treatment, we should Se able 70 Ill the
seigh,y-year-o ODDS a Few decades hence.
Ninety should he 3 very common age,
and the centeaaria1s should be NOT
! few.
Man Old as His Arteries.
"a man is as old as his arteries
Yes, and he Is also as old a. his liver.
his intestines his lungs. his teeth. his
nerves and his brain He IS As old IS
his weakes; organ. and test OF all
1.-THE vital organs as they function to-
gether will give the index Of his ase.
Tho child which is fed daily uron
3 fast and TO die before has time.
The child which. from one-sided
or badly balanced diet. develops early
/, a torpid liver is surely on the way %
The child which is brought up soft
and fabby muscled from want OF eNer:.
physical inertia; 0nd. never having
developed his full capacity for resist
snce of fatigue and disease. he comes
before his time to state OF collapse.
The child which is not trained carly
n mental alcriness, in variety OF
Ways OF thinking and acting-such as
q we'll balanced daily life Of play
recreation. study and manual Industry
grow stir in body and stupid in mind
years before his infant inheritance
would warrant such rcsrettable fate.
what ;s the answer YOU ask. the secret
There - no single easy rule other
than ail-round watchfuness of the
general situation. In general old age
IS iue 20 poison. some clogging of the
waste products too long In the place
where they are thrown out Here,
then IS the method for your child:
Moderate Eating Urged.
Moderate eating. reasonably light
diet, not much Of heavy protein ma
terials
daily play, romping and running.
Fresh air in sleeping room, practice
OF deep breathing till the chest ex-
paRds freely.
bowels IN the habit o. quickly elm
mating their wastes Have made =
frequen, physical examination Of your
child and cor!ec, al minor defects thus
revealed
Trys,o q-otect he growing II. ABB
salUtei1 lrairs; The ust % tea. coffee.
trbarco. aicchoi En6 he various forms
q! so-called Q IS! pstlo:.
Cultivate irs you.h,u. MIND
hab!ts o: Industry. th';t- tao II alert
nesg, t-ErEness and ruu-iE. y fat ~
lacking .. ne du'Aes which properly
t,Hionr =: ms Young
Avcnd 2. niiire-' ;l-t-.io. re ht:iI
q Denta .s1crtss t.e STUPIDITY.
Watch the J-oF-eHf Q. .he lL-f.- vori6
Freutf Is !: .ns N.-r l.tt cs:,s mes
npnr SInsr -uuf ses; you-r wiz
Jns Writ