OLD CAN LOOK YOUNG.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIX, Issue 2583, 29 July 1918, Page 7

OLD CAN LOOK YOUNG.

' i IMPORTANT NEW DISCOVERIES. M i Dr. William Lee Howard, in a rec- . ent paper, asserts that loss of youthfulness and decline of beauty are but . ' reaction of body tissues to injurious j influences. Scientifically, we have | never until now known just what j the&e influences were, nor on what inner organs they exerted their harmful j effects. Discoveries in the last year " j or so enable us to point out those * I stabilisers, of the human machine j which, if kept in perfect condition, I will \ esp the body face and mind ever " j fresh and youthful. * j When some of our beauties with half a century or more behind them, ; were asked the secret of keeping so ! youthful, many answers were given. ' 'Never worry," says one. 'Keep up with the times, associate with the young,' answers another. 'Because- I j feel young,' replies the young girl at 3 sixty years of age. All these answI ers have the truth in them,' but just i how one could possess this "always 1 j feeling young attitude" they could | not tell. So their answers still rei main riddles. } Science has at last unveiled i the secret. Broadly speaking, ' it is because every organ in the body was doing its work. Speaking more specifically, because the ductless glands about which we knew nothing ' [ up to a very short time ago were in i such per/ect order- that their seere- | tions poured into the blood streams 5 j of chemical elements which constantI ly renew body and mind. j Look at the portraits of any ipf the 1 , celebrated beauties who kept their ati tractions up to old age as far as the years are concerned, and you will ' i notice th a t they always allow freedom I of neck. That is, they did not wear i tight fitting neck-wear or in any way ' j permit a pressure upon the neck or ' under the ears. Also sandals or low " I heeled slippers will be seen. 1 I There are little glands in the neck whose sole duties are to regulate the {growth, keep the blood pure, furnish constant material for the repair of waste. They control blood pressure, determine changes and alterations of character, and in all ways re-all* act as stabilisers of mind, emotions and passions. There are little glands in ] the brain—the pineal, so cal'ed be- i I cause it resembles a small pine cone, j the pituitary, which has great con- , ;trol over girls' and womens' developj ment and growth, besides other inj ternal glands whose secretions, if unj disturbed, preserve health and also j beauty. These glands, you must understand, I are the real regulating forces of the ■whole body and brain. The thymus j gland lies just behind the breast bone | In the infant it is very large and re- : mains large until the event of woman- I | hood. Then ( it shrinks to a very j • small thing. But it still remains as ; a sort of reserve force. ' j When womanhood arrives the thy- I ! roid glands in the neck, one on each i ! side of the windpipe, are developed, ! nnd take up the regulating, the pol- j ! icing of body, emotions, and mind, i The same with the glands in the : brain and other parts of the woman's j j body. Each kind of gland has its j particular work to do. It is the perj feet harmony with which they work j j together that makes youthfulness. The thyroid glands have far greater 1 influence' for good or evil in the j ! woman than in the man. It is her j-beauty shop. Here are manufactured i the juices which, with the help of the '' I side shops—the outer glands —go into j her blood and keep away wrinkles, | causes the flesh to retain its plump- ! ncss, gives her elasticity and plastic- I ity, and furnishes force and vigour to the nervous system. j The glands in the brain aid woman j in keeping her particular functions in \ good working order, regulate her fat- ! , ness or leanness, keep her mentally i active. | I Any action or indiscretion which j disturbs the harmonious working of , I these glands goes to make some age j i sign long before it is time. These { 'glands must have a period of rest in !. ! order; to store up their fiuid.s. If they j do not get this rest their material is j . : soon exhausted. This means the j l ; glands are deprived of that quantity L j and quality, strength, and power of I : youth making stuff needed hourly by j . j the blood to take to some part to ; ', j repair. Hence, this part commences j ( to get aged when there is really no ! necessity for it to do so. It may be j the appearance of early grey hairs, j the crow's feet around the eyes, that I "tired feeling," or some functional ! . i disturbance —something somewhere. j Nothing dries up the thyroid gland so-quickly as . undue nerve strain. There are many kinds of nerve strains which we all have that do not seriously effect the thyroid—those due j to natural conditions ; grief, worry ! j over little failures and things, mar- i ried worries of the ordinary kind and j j the healthful strain of responsibilit- j c ies. j, The harmful strain upon the thyroid; ! ( conges from the drawing upon it at i £ times when it should be storing up ! . material for youthfulness. This may i r mean that the girl who works all day j ■( and dances most of the night, will in j r time lose those forces which make for I r long-time beauty and youthfulness. I You. cannot overwork the beauty j ~ shop and still be able to call, upon it to work for you. You should have j, your fun and play, but they must be ! rj so arranged that they do not use up glandular juices. Eight to ten hours' sleep every day is what you must get. Then there are days when you should 101 l and loaf, atiout the house. Now we .see the real reason these j f historical beauties kept so young. I w They spent much time in storing up those juices. This had another great and beneficial effect. When the juices j j of these glands—all of them in whole or part—are being used up more rap- r idly than they can be replaced, the nervous system gets out of order. Then comes fretfulness, temper ; the t .blood stream docs hot get its pure stimulant. Now follow disturbances t in blood pressure', and the whole organisation is upset. But those beauties of old and the present did and do | r not allow any of those effects-, so I their tampers were always poiflei, i

anger never beyond control, blood pressure normal, brain cells undisturbed ; so on their way they went smiling ever youthful. Girls of ten to sixteen years should play and think as girls. This allows the thymus gland to go to full maturity and give complete growth and strength of tody and mind up to the • period the thyroid gland takes hold, j If the girl of fifteen" years of age ! goes to night dances, wears tight cor- i sets, high heels, and tight fitting col- ' lars—in other words, if she tries to , be a young woman in acts, thoughts, | and appearances while her inner juice i is that of a girl, there is a fight be- I tween her too early woman's brain and her girlish functions. The brain stimulation generally wins. This means that the girlish glands dry up \ before their allotted time and later on so do women's glands.—'"Popular Science Sittings."