The Washington times., 1919-11-13

The problem of prolonging life and maintaining youth
is having many solutions suggested
One from Mexico says that any normal can
live to be 400 to 500 years old he will conne his diet to
rice oats, and honey
Another guarantees that diet of fruits will
indefinitely delay the weakness of old age and provide
perennial youth
We believe that either of these dietary systems
win lead to unusually long life
There certain varieties of birds whose diets
theoretically perfect perfection consists in eating the food
provided by nature in its natural state and yet of
ordinary Wild birds lives to any extreme age
There has been much question whether Biblical
characters who said to have reached great ages
pued their the basis of the modern period of three
hundred and sixty-f days
investigator has announced his belief that the
ancients Of Genesis instead Of computing their years by
soces and equnoxes counted the periods of the
years This would that the ancient year would be
about twenty nine days long and that Noah
ing $50 of years. really lived only seventy modern
years and that Methuselah the oldest in Biblical his
tory only seventy at his death instead of 969
There is peculiarly convincing dsproof of this theory
contained In the same chapter of Genesis that recte the
ages of these patriarchs
In the fifth chapter and fifteenth verse it reads "And
Mahalaee lived sixty and five and begat jared and
Mahalalee 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 Mahalaleel sixty five would make him father
when he only five years oldnot very probable
cumstance
There is little no doubt that in ancient times men
lived to great ages What contributed their extreme
longevity Is lost in the of time other secrets
Of those early days.
There every evidence that the ancents knew many
things Of which wholly ignorant.
They were able to harden copper secret which modern
metaurgists have spent millions of dollars redscover
They were certainly learned in the applications of
hydraulics which are unknown to Us.
There evidences that the principle of the fourth
dimension was and used by them while it to
Us only complex theory.
There are not few who believe that old age is a
mental disease and that only old as we think
we are That we THINK ourselves young we will stay
young.
We all ought keep mentally young as long as we can
We should think young long after unable to act
Association will do much to prolong youth Hang on
to the mental energy and ambition Of youth as long as you
Keep eyes the future not on the past Watch
the road ahead not the way you have passed over
There is good deal that is inspiring in distances
AHEAD even reach with your the things
your eyes behold
One of the greatest of American physicians is authority
for the statement that fifty years the average American
life has been heightened fifteen years That is doing pretty
well '
If the profteers do put much of a handicap on
may gain another fifteen in the next half century
and keeping that up eventually live to be respect
aoy od instead OF dying do in what should be
our period of real youth.
When we get to living four hundred useful wears
we VIII be able to do something worth while for the world
we work hard all the time. We will be able by careful
SELECTION read quite few of the good books and learn
traction OF the things we would like to know
For the present plan much beyond the three
score years and ten and taking the time we fooisbl
waste and the time have devote eating and seenn
means that the most careful hardly get started in the
su OF nowedge before the earthly race is and are
put away, and shortly are forgotten
However, not all is ashes. Goethe gave a very oood
recipe for pleasant old age when he wrote:
'Wouldst thou fashion for thyself a seemIv Tfe9