Evening star., 1924-02-20

"Jlfst onc-thrd of the food we cat
keeps us alive. The other tWo-thirds
keeps doctors -aliMe- Eat less i'm
proper food and take. more exercise
and you Will he neither too fat nor
too lcdn
This was the prescription Senator
Royal =. Copeland. former health
..otnnissioner OF. New York city, gave
members ot the Bible Study class at
the " ulnrn'S City. Club, last night.
His topic was .Alrthuselah." and he
cav, his, intrrcSted audience a few
hints how To. prulonES thsir lives. like
hat bearded man of biblical days.
Now. they tell u.s. senator Cope
land said. that old Methuselah lived
to be @69 Years OF. age. Yet, l know
a little ccmctcry'up near my farm In
New 'GOrk The tombstones in that
burial ground show that the Oldest
man buried there reached the ripe old
Think 70 it, \ bearded patriarch of
his neighh"rhDod ~ the age Of forty
four.
IWrcasc in Life.
Go back fifty years. The average
q gt. of men aud women then WAS forty :
Two years. To-day Il is fifty-three, Aud
yet we hear u ~ of Old fogieS croakihS
';he good old days. We live longer: we
enjoy lit,, more. In fifty years We have
added eleven years to our lives because
we have learned to battle more ire.
quently and not nail up the windows OIL
our homes at the first sign oi winter.
II want 10 SAY something to you peo-
ple who are either too fat or too lean.
In the first place, overweight Is SeIl-
Gus menace to good health and longevity:
A man of fifty who had permitted
L, tn
weight has lcSScGcd his chances OF
living much longer just % per teIlI :.
These are, principal reasons Tor over
weight: 10" much OF the Mrois h'hu
a.; food and not enough exercise.
Nowadays. no really .reSpectdu4e
nersou ever thinks OF walking. | once
knew "A man who was very roma VI
basket bail. and he went 1" the syi,.
his Office was just SiN blocks diStanl
from the gym hc always took a taAicao'
E 1t is really. Il shame that we are heS
. lectfuI of these things which hiahe as
for greater life ana Sre"ler e'
When a man. or u woman Is skinny
nine times out OF ten. II is oue ~
imprnprr breathing. The aVeraS per :,
son takes short llttte nrgarn 49,, Ills
never reaches some OF HIS iuhS reiiH -
with purr fresh air. The result -
that the. improper food he has eaten
iS not oXidixrd--burn"d up-ano II
soon CLOGS up tht - Hltiti, "
ant disease and lack OF hutrliiou.
yt.f proper way tn hrcaiht. Seha'oi
t'nppIand said under queSttohlhS' i
to iuhaIr deeply and "Nhait tnol
rurhIv \ good way to learn. nc Saiu'
il 10 placr a. piece OF paper sever d
loot from the mouth. standing erect
CneSt out iuhaI" deeply ana theh cA-
hale hv blowing as hard as p"Sslplc'
Gradn,illr move back. day by DAY un
Ill Won have gotten as FAR as poSSlpie
from th,. paper. and Net can make 1t
.iXr WAY under til" rNhaiatIon Win
out Srraiuiug. Do this three times
G.tv for uvc-miuut". periods, the sen
:tfor advised and u. proni Sed that
the results would prove amazing.
rhc Average Breakfast.
Srcaking of food. hc said people
eat too much Starchy. fatty food
things containing All oVrra bundance
Of ,.IrbohydrateS. By way of illus
tration. he. mentioned the average
breakfaSt -grarcfruit with too much
sugar which is fat producing: cereal
covered with cream. also fatty; pa
con. an fat; sometimes potatoes. also
an fat. aud the Inevitable cup OF cot
Zee. which. ~ said. is simply form
Of drug addiction.
Just cuo-thirt OF what we eat
keeps us aliNc. I'll" other two thirds
keeps doctors ,jliEe-and fat, Sena-
tor Copeland continued. There are
ONLY two WAYS t. take off flesh Ia I
less Of the wrong thing and eNer-
else. HouSeWcrk is not exercise.
Propcr exercise results in plenty OF
rerSpira tion. Honest sweat is tue