Show SECRETS OF LO LONGEVITY tais tak cr care or at yourself an a Import important ast factor fix tor coming now to the more exact I ence of medicine I 1 called on dr A ILI H grandin Grand ln the new york specialist who believes that longevity depends solely upon the action ot the heart says the cleveland plain dealer the heart he be says sats Is the tha nearest approach known L to man to that dream ot of science perpetual motion the person whose pulse beats with tull full and normal stroke has the best chance tor for a long life alte hereditary qualities come next in importance and it if the parents tire are short lived a person has hasa S a forewarning of 0 his own fate for the tha consolation ot of those whose lathers fathers or mothers may have died young it 11 should be said that many authorities maintain that hereditary tendencies come to a great extent from the grandparents bad and even from previous ancestors so 60 that that it if there has haa been a good erigo average of long life in past generations the ills fact ot of early death in the case ot of lather father or mother need not cot be ot of serious consequence one of the most moat interesting opinions that I 1 obtained in regard to the chances ot of long ion life came from nicola tesla the inventor and electrician tr who thinks that sleep his has much to ao do with the matter A man has haa been given a certain term of life alte said sir rr tesla so many hours to pass on oil this earth I 1 mean hours when he Is alive awake I 1 do not count the hours when ba he Is sleeping I 1 do not believe they are strictly speaking included in his term of 0 life when a man really lives he Is dying hour by hour but when lie be sleep sleepy she he Is accumulating vital forces which will make him go on living IV in other words in measuring out our dole of hours to each one of us the great timekeeper stops his count while we are sleeping therefore the longer a man sleeps the longer he will remain on earth nearly all long lived people have been great sleepers when do de lesseps was on the ocean he would sleep twenty hours on a stretch gladstone Is a great sleeper and averages avenges twelve hours a day I 1 can believe alieve t that a man who would learn to sleep ei eighteen t hours a day might live years this idea seems a little fantastic but it should be said eaid that so EO great an authority as prof F r W warner in a recent lecture on biometry or science of measuring life includes abundant sleep among the tour four essentials to a long fife ite which are 1 to be descended sc se at least by one side from parents 2 to be of a calm contented and cheerful cheer fill disposition 3 to have a symmetrical form I 1 e a full chest well formed joints and aad limbs with a neck and head large rather than small in proper proportion ion to the size of the body 4 to be a long and sound sleeper the professor went on to show that women are longer lived than men and aid that married women live longer than single women the statistics show that few nuns attain old age and that monks also die on the average earlier than men who marry the primary conditions of longevity are said prof piol pi ol warner that the tha heart lunga and digestive organs as well as the brain should be large it if these organs are large the trunk will be long and the limbs comparatively short the person will appear tall in and short in standing the hand will have a long and somewhat heavy palm and short fingers the brain will be deeply seated as shown by the orifice of the ear being low the blue or brown hazel eye as showing an intermission of temperament is a favorable indication th the nostrils being large open and free indicates Ind cates caes large lungs A pinched and halt half closed nostril Ind indicates leMes small or weak lungs |