Evening star., 1922-02-13
salubrious Convolutisns.

Old age is now curapIe II TAKEN III
time Effective treatment should
beein before the onset of the in
cipient stage of the disease. which
lis that sad false dignity put upon
ua nv the customs of ultra-civilization,
| False dignity makes us ashamed to
rim and frolic and play like young
! animals, and at period Of life when
by rights we should yet be children.
! Direct your sore eyes at the preco.
, cinns dress and makeup of the school
| children and you will understand
what l mean. Old age is a state
J of mind. 1t is fatuous to repeat
| that a man is as old as his arteries.
His arteries have nothing wnatever M
to do with his physologicai age. The
man is. as old as he thinks. and
thoughts and the modes of life they
insnire certainly do run in families,
iGrandfather and father cant mana
down their arteries but they do more
or less mold ones habit Of thouSht.
Tell me not in mournful numbers
| that yours is a short-lived family,
| for well know the truth of the
| matter. Your family has fallen into
a wrong way Of thinking. and there
fore a wrong way Of living, and for
that reason. and no other. DO the mem
tain the deplorable state Of mind
of which YOU complain. Never mind
YOUR arteries or the height OF your
blood pressure. Those are secondary
and unimportant features Your ar
teries are as old as your skin, your
eyes, your teeth, your lungs, and
YOUR feet, but not older; the state
of your arteries and your blood pres.
sure is determined by your think
ing and your living; they are con-
venient gauges wherewith to measure
a mans physiological age; but DO
not imagine that your condition Is
determined by the degree OF nDros-
ity in your arteries.
The most disastrous effect dignity
has upon US is perhaps the mani
fold evils Of bad posture. The belly
(Which, as some Of you know, is the
front wall Of the abdomenl slumps
from sheer weakness and f1abbiness
of it's unused muscles. and when
this slump occurs the digestion, cir
culation and nervous system inevt-
tably suffer more or less Impairment
of their functions. Corsets, belts,
supporters and similar makeshifts
muscles in preventing these evils.
The woman is we'll advised who re-
solves in her youth to eschew such
snares and retain her figure, her
health and her youth by training
her own muscles to do their proper
exercise, of course-about fifteen min
utes IL properly directed. say along
the lines of my symphony. From the
hyeienic point Of view 1t is quite as
wrong to omit the daily exercise as it
is to skip the daily wash. even as
suming ones occupation is SO dirty
as to necessitate daily body washing.
The revised symphony begins and
ends with half dozen rolls dos-a-
dos, forward and backward, just to
put you in the right frame Of mind
to derive the fullest pleasure and
benefit from the rest of the piece.
Maybe you're an old codger already
and afraid to turn somersaults even
forward; maybe you're in the in
cipient stage Of senility and merely
unable to roll them back. Never
mind. Keep trying. II at first you
don't succeed just. keep at 1t, and
If your case is still amenable to
treatment some fine day you'll find
you can roll them forward and back
ward and see nary a star. Even III
YOU are not lover Of this kind
of music, commend the practice
of rolling some somersaults first
thing each morning and last thing
each night. Try it and you will
agree it is very good medicine.