THE PERFECT MAN.

Evening Star, Issue 11676, 7 February 1902, Page 8

THE PERFECT MAN.

We have all been more or less familiar with Sandow’s system of physical development, which is claimed to be an improvement on the systems previously in vogue. More recently the world has been startled by a proposal seriously put forward, and backed by scientific deductions and conclusions, for the production of perfect men and women. Whether it is possible to put anv scientific scheme into, actual practice remains to be seen, but it must be admitted that there are considerable difficulties in the way. Perfection is impossible of attainment, and probably what is meant is the graceful symmetry of the human form rather than physical strength. A race of strong men is much more preferable than a race of well-proportioned men; but when we come to consider strength we have to remember that no man is stronger than his stomach. The stomach is the vital centre of the body. It is the organ from which all other organs are fed and derive their strength. There never was a strong man with a weak stomach, and this means that no man whose organs of digestion and nutrition are not in good and sonnd working order can be called strong, because strength implies perfect health. Digestion is a vital necessity, not merely a mechanical operation ; if the food eaten is not digested 'lie body starves and is weakened. Digestion is a chemical process, which enables the blood to take up the essential nutritive principles which go to feel every organ dependent on the blood for food. It is true, then, that a man is as strong as his stomach. Is your stomach strong? Are your digestive organs performing their functions? Is your blood rich and pure? Your skin clear and free from pimples and boils? Are your bowels regular? If there is anything wrong with your stomach, if your liver is sluggish and you feel yourself bilious, nervous, and irritable, depressed and melancholy, you are in the first stages of disease, to neglect which will mean many after years of sickness and pain. Don’t act foolishly and fid yourself with pills, drugs, and strong purgatives, but take Impey’s May Apple, the safest and best remedy available to sufferers. Impey’s May Apple is an ideal family medicine, and acts gently and painlessly. It. cares constipation, indigestion, biliousness, and all liver troubles, and the good it does is permanent. Impey’s May Apple is sold by all chemists at 2s fid per bottle.— tAdvtJ