The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-30


you into the belief that you are tottar-
ing on the brink Of senesoence ana
dissolution!
These are the simple rules offered
by that clever and dynamic writer.
Vance Thompson, in his newest book,
Live and BE Young" which follows
his previously published volumes on
Eat and Grow Thin" and Drink and
Keep Sober" lS
"lmbeciles everywhere" Mr. Thomp-
son declares feelingly, ARE always
expressing their sympathetic sur
prise that threescore man as not
doddering toward the tomb. So the
poor man thinks OF death and--to
please the family and not be, a
freak-takes TO his bed and dies;
when what he really had in mind
was To marry a chorus girl ana go
to Monte Carlo for the winter"
And the same damnable power OF
suggestion operates also on woman.
III you tell a woman. again and again,
that she Is old--Sshe will shrink up ana
wither away into old age before YOUR
eyes" (That Is, II she hasn't the
at the end Of her broom Unsteady.
The most delightful feature OF the
road laid out to the fountain Of youth
by Mr. Thompson is that Il runs
through so much almost UNEXPECTED
country In Live and Be Young. :"
which, by the way, Is published by
Doubleday. Page g. Co., we are not
adjurcd to follow the familiar physi-
cal methods for retaining juvenility.
Far. from IL! -
know a man in the forties between
whom and his Morris chair there ex-
istr an almost perfect affinity. And
how he beamed, how he almost purred
when l read what Vance Thompson
has TO say on the subject Of physical
exercise for normal people who wibh
to avoid the state OF the sere and VEL
low leaf.
Don't" warns the writer, stand
up in front OF your mirror and play
with silly dumlbbells. Don't pull silly
ropes tied to weights in your bath
room. Don't bend your unhappy body
fourteen times, tapping your forehead
on the rug. Don't lie on your back and
kick each leg out thlrty-two times.
Don't do any OF the foolish things
that the professors OF physical educa
tion-who have to make a living at
your expense, God help them-tell you
10 do in their books.
only for abnormal people Is arti-
fetal exercise ever right. SO far as * -
orCisc is concerned, do not specialize.
Your body is n biological democracy
made up of a trillion cells, each one OF
which is dependent upon the collab-
Grafton of the otherA You can't pc.
and coddle one group OF cells to the
detrment OF the others without drag
ging your body down into the discord
and fatigue Of old age.
Never take physical exercise when
you are mentally tired; never play
games unless you want to play; never
do anything you don't want TO do
When you feel that you want exercise
OF any kind. take II: and never take
any kind OF exercise unless you fee
you want 1t. There u only one rule
for keeping the physical body young
movement. There Is only one law
which the body must obey: the law
OF movement; but bear in mind that
this law Is the law OF natural and
instructive movement"
Leonard Merrick has written a
charming book called Conrad IN
Quest Of Hts YOUTH" OF which this
moral is that "A man renews his youth
whenever he falls in love
Vance Thompson declares: II you
want TO maintain youth, you cannot
shake hands with too many men; you
cannot kiss too many women. There
fore don't be afraid of falling in love
Failing in love never hurt any one
don't want you to run about kissing
the upper housemaid or jumping over
your neighbours fence. But yoi can
hardly do too much loving. 1--we II
tho great prophylactic against old
age.
you must not yield 20 emotional
sluggishness, which means decay, o.
TO emotional overindulgence, which
means habbY abnormality." 10
New ideas for old ones summarizes
the authors third rule for keeping
young.
Or as ne says: "If you move your
arms and legs and give the body the
'np'cment It requires; IL you move
tpr' emotions about and exercise
'ru" "HpacitiCH for love and laughter
I'd 0mul1t,on; so you must give your
e. rl an the active thoughts Il needt
10 keen 70 young. And just as you
want raw emotions you want new
Thoughts. \ static mind means old
Age.
"Yol must beware OF mental In
Crlia on the one hand and OF special
tied Overd evelopment on the 'oth0r,"
Was there ever an elixir of youth
moro pleasant to the tRBteP