HOW SHE GREW YOUNG AGAIN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 3

HOW SHE GREW YOUNG AGAIN.

; ' . ; ' At' forty i she had iost her trim, 'fine figure. • At fifty sho was really ~o!d. At Bixty sho was. fat, pudgy,; misshapen, ' wrinkled. '-At . sixty-five she was still, more , so; -whilo her. appetito - had. become inordinate, yet she had always prided herself on . being "temperate—never drank a ■ drop.'' But-at this age she .began; to look into physical culturo, and, being :;a" woman 'of good mind; was not long ;in'-discovering,that for thirty years at least sno: had been , eating vastly too much,. exercising too little,-and breathing, in tho contracted fashion common to the avorago person of either ses. - . She' began to gradually rediice , her' diet, after a while dispensed with coffee,- but nover quito gavo up tea, was much out of doors, learned to breathe deeply, and bo-' came a devotee to physical exercise.' At seventy-five. sho' was once more trim in fonn and figure without lacing, for she dresses loosely. so that her sides may act'like bellows when she takes deep breathing, and walks with a light ■ '.elastic... step. . The wrinkles are still there, land her hair is gray, i but. thicker than before, 'aDd is no longer falling outi' Her eye' is as clear as . -■ a .girl's, \ and her mind' thoroughly : alert. V She is a remarkable old' lady,' in her . friends', estimation, but she;' says there' is . nothing 'remarkable about it, and now at she is ' earning a- comfortable living by teaching women' how, to acquire such control of body and mind as to mitigate the usual declino iof advancing l years',; and onjoy - to the utmost old age.—"Good Housekeeping." •' ~ ( ' v • ' '..