SECRET OF YOUTH

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6545, 18 November 1924, Page 6

SECRET OF YOUTH

• V. MYSTERY OF GOOD LOOKS WOMAN’S FORMULA The youthful appearance of a woman patient of mine is the cause of endless discussion among her friends. Her general health is not good, writes a physician in the London Daily Mail, so that health as a factor has no bearing on her case at any rate. Her own explanation of the mystery of her good’ looks is that they are evidently due to the performance of a certain ritual night and morning. Gazing into a mirror, she 'banishes all frowns, reduces her face to a placid state, and smooths away with her hands any signs of wrinkles. She makes no attempt at ordinary face massage. Finally, addressing her own reflection she says: “Isn’t it wonderful how young you are looking? I cannot understand it.” She believes that she is looking younger every, day, and certainly liter appearance is the envy of her woman friends and the admiration •of her daughters. / a To me the explanation seems to be that her sub-conscious, mind receives constant doses of such a nature that the glands are induced to into the blood certain substances which inhabit old age. ! Now it/ has been shown that if a cat be annoyed or its emotions excited, a substance becomes present in the blood which causes high bipod ..pressure.' \v /•’ This latter condition is associated With old age. It is universally known that worry and annoyance produce grey hairs and other factors inseparable from old age. A frown is indicative of either interrial or exterrial worry. That is to say, the organism has received an unpleasant : stimulus either from within or without. 7 .If it bp true that old age is the result bf stimuli to certain glands, the converse be also true—namely, that certain glands may be harmoniously attuned so that their effect will.be to prevent old age, if not to encourage youthfulness? • ■ ; ■ mkxE&m ■