The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-08
WOMEN ARE
CREATURES
OF INSTINCT
DR.. Fisk Says Women Are
Not Inferior TO Man Be-
cause of This
BY MARIAN HALE.
NEA Service Writer.

New York, Nov. We'll, granted
we are creatures of instinct, and not
reason, what's wrong with that!
This is all: we women have taken
this charge from the opposite sex
too seriously. We've almost come TO
believe our lack of reasoning ability
makes US inferior to man.
But no. Here's a man himself VINO
sides with US. He's DR.. Eugene Ly-
man Fisk, mcuical director OF the
Life Extension institute here.
In fact, DR.. Fisk, we'll known for
his activities in connection With the
promotion OF personal hygiene and
the pro!ongation of life goes even
further. He urges US to continue IN
our own feminine Ways, for our in
stincts, he adds, are basically sound,
to be depended upon and logical.
For instance-take the matter OF
age.
The best of US will hedge when it
comes to that, or will slice off few
years when no one is looking if we
think we can get away with it. Or
we'll indulge in nice little cry when
the birthday anniversary comes
around, no matter how handsomely
We may have Jared in the way of
! gifts.
Discards Birthdays.
Men call this vanity. But it isn't,
| the doctor says.
There's just one thing to do
about birthdays" he assured me.
Forget them. Women's way is the
only way. Discard the calendar as
record of age. Let's measure our
age by our physical condition, which
is the only fair measure, and be as
old or as young as our bodies.
"Not that have any objections
to calendars" he explained. But we
have attached such false significance
to 80, 40 and so that it is almost i'm
possible not to let down at each
milestone, just because the years
seem to call for it,
| Then there's good ground for the
other feminine instinct-the desire
to alter the figure. Do you number
among your acquaintance one wo-
man who isn't dieting to reduce or
to increase her weight?
"Instinctively woman realizes
she must control her physical con-
tour if she is to keep from settling
down." Dr. Fisk went on. "As wo-
men give up exercise and yield to
overindulgence in food, the aging
process manifests itself in flesh and
flabbiness.
Wrong Step.
women who have become neu.
rotic, anamic and undernourished
lose their feeling of youth and seek
to regain it by adding on flesh ana
restoring the natural stature.
TO be sure, many women in their
eaEerness to keep young and agil.
, have not followed the most judicious
but the LATEST means. They depend
t on cosmetics and alternate starving
and gorging to do what only reason
able diet, fresh air, exercise and =
}, cheerful philosophy and tenacity tc
5 youthful illusions and enthusias
can do.
But through their determination
to stay young in face and in form
women have set up better standards
1or men and have imposed bette,
living conditions upon the world. Ir
all forms Of public health work anc
health propaganda you will fine
more woman workers than men, be
cause these activities give them ar
opportunity to follow their natura
instincts and impulses toward per
lection.
so, instead of curbing their inn
pulses toward health and beauty
women should develop them" h,
concluded.