WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEST

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1925, Page 25

WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEST

NOT AT 27, BUT RATHER ABOUT 45. SOME JN THE SEVENTIES: ,Xl what age is a man at bis best? The statement of Professor Karl Fearson, thp eugpnics authority, that a man reaches his prime "at about 27," and that a-fferwards there is a loss of mental elertnps?. is generally disputed. "If it were so," said a well-known Harle.v Street specialist, "it would be a bad flay for England. A man is just as young and alert as he makes himself. It in largely a matter of diet, iabits and work, Youthful at 73. JJan's best age ougbt to br and generally is about. 45, but there are some wonderful exceptions. . Take, for instance. who, at. 73 is the controller of so many enterprises, and is at. present out ot Engl3D'l on a long business trip." Sir Woodman Rurbridge smiled. If people only look around," he said, "they will find it is not the man of 27 who is dninsr things, and who can. as a rule, be jrirpn positions of great responsibility." a 'Vail" in his professional life, and is always the personification of energy, confessed to more years than 27. "What iK'DfPDse." he said, discussing the theory. "Wouldn't It be dreadful if it were true?" Food For Thought. Forty-flve. perhaps—but not 27. If the man of 45 be careful In bis diet he should lire to be 00. Everything is brain and stomach, and the first depends upon the second. "Tbe trouble is that people overeat themselves, and tbeir energies are absorbed in digesting food. "If I were a business man I would take only a little lemonade and bread and butter before I went to a board meeting, instead of the heavy luncheon most men lhave."