Show I 1 WHAT NEED FOR MA N TO DIE SO I 1 SOON should not the normal human being continue to live for several centuries I 1 curious rules tor for LonCe longevity vity and the rei kei laders women who boll like an aa elephant and men who past fast to live long lone I 1 copyright all rights rest reservedly reserve ived dl new york dm dec 6 the death deat h rate in lorn lome 0 at the worst of 0 new yorks tenements are being swept away by the health board bocard has ranged os as high as seventy ova to eighty per thousand lit ill tile the entire city in spite 0 or these plague spots its recent var variation lation is 1 bo be twenty and twenty five in berlin chosen sections of the ea country it drops to twelve or fifteen and this lower rate ralo Is retained rot for tho the entire icar by a few newer western cities like minneapolis it dirt diet and regimen more wise purer air ond and o nd reli briety give a man in minneapolis or in the seventh ward lit in brooklyn five nv times as rood good a chance for liis his life wa i in hells kitchen hy by might riot not ft select community ot of picked individuals bo be feasible in which the lh death rate should be ba only ono fifth that or of minneapolis it if EL a man mail lives fifty or sixty years in ili 2 pite of inherited disease bad bal surroundings unwise food and the like e why might his eran it randson deon not live SOO SOD years under tinder per perfect feet sanitary sanI y conditions A great many people would answer I 1 IZ 7 IN e k J I 1 IF Z 5 Z L sa I 1 Z Z I 1 11 i t I 1 I 1 vz V z 21 Z 7 4 I 1 5 rl 7 EE U 4 t i r 11 no dar I 1 7 S fj A f W I 1 1 I 1 4 I 1 k I 1 1 11 IN V I Z C f s C 1 1 1 f t I 1 4 J s I 1 IV 11 11 ff 7 I 1 V I 1 av Z 11 1 el r 1 io PL 1 ft I 1 it m b II 11 I 1 a if N I 1 I 1 1 I 1 i 7 0 I 1 1 I 1 1 4 it 0 I 1 t I 1 III fl 11 1 l W 61 7 if 1 A 4 pt 1 1 I 1 41 ak 1 1 I 1 I 1 A 4 aa 1 I 1 april I 1 sit 7 I 1 fal Z ala I 1 1 A M V 1 X 1 I I 1 AN I 1 I 1 hafl zil I 1 11 I 1 1 11 A f i i 1 5 I 1 1 u i I 1 I 1 A lar I 1 4 tl t l 4 IT I 1 I 1 V m ai on Q 1 I 1 lif C 1 icae r NO t I 1 I 1 V I 1 1 1 I 1 V VIC life is what we make maho it ft these questions by baying that there Is s no assignable limit beyond which life might not go if perfectly watched the parts and powers of the body are daily I 1 renewed for or many years why whir might they not be renewed indefinitely with mith pei belted pelted feet wisdom in tile the vac use ot of food J drink recreation work and shelter jhc I 1 why need we die at all no man dies it Is said by kiy cause I 1 whatever which chich might riot not havo have be been I 1 I 1 prevented by human intelligence when jhc n human intelligence has prevented ml all the causes ot of death w m hat foot foothold bold will M J the grim destroyer have upon the ef et those ests M v iio ho seek to lay jay down the rules tor fat life everlasting upon tile tho J earth may be divided into two classes those who he told tile the stomach mainly responsible for disease and dissolution go lution find and those who alm aim to school tile the nerves agal against rist premature wearing out old age say bay tile the former li 13 but the hardening of 0 the elisue tit alir bones ot of tre the old men man are am brittle his skin akin Is hard aad wrinkled its his heart Is flogged clogged and enfeebled ills brain hardens and loses Us its power ot of thinking all these effects may inay be fought oil off indefinitely by refusing to take into the mouth the earth falls aich do all the mischief most of them come to x water ater liard hard water atar water which has lime in solution Is 19 the worst koral people who live in sandy region other things being equal live longer than those in limestone regions because the water they drink is purer the sandy eastern end of long island which Is one of the healthiest places in the count country irn la Is a sand good example of 0 this truth because of the pernicious effects of lime and other earth salts lit in water the ralston school recommends its followers to drink nothing but distilled water when that cant be obtained they would use fruits at all seasons apples pears pear grapes oranges tile the juice only aly cherries cherr lea plums s slid and beri birb beef 1 Is the worst thing to eat it ll lii li i full of earth salts athletes m who he eat quantities of rare beet beef in training are strong but age acre quickly laborers in fruit regions live ion lonar gardeners aro are the best risks the life insurance com parties can take fisli li lali poultry and young mutton ilir aps e admitted foods of 0 the lie die dietetic school and brain workers are arc recommended to use cheese fish whole meat oatmeal peas fags and prunes pi of W 0 atwater speaks in high terms of the new kew I 1 england dainties aud baked beans the pain do di geurne or war bread adopted by the french army Is made out of anhilo wheat lour flour mund ground very inc fine most authorities arm acrea a that americans eat cat far more meat ineat than la Is necessary thus overworking their digestive organs and inviting old ago age this Is especially true of those who exercise little eat meat abr three e a day ami ln I leave largo ell c lea of admiring friends ds wondering why they died of the japanese mho ho are practically vegetarians otar et lans osh fish but no meat ineat have just shown themselves energetic in the Ch calne lne se but the sanitary arrangements arrange of if japanese homes s are so vile that the effect of a vegetable diet upon long life cannot got get quite a fair trial in chrysan rhenium land jn in smother another respect however the claims of its aavo advocates at a are fully borne out in japan V vegetarians cg a IT allans say nay a meat diet makes people quarrelsome japan is it a land of sunny temp erm arven tile the school ly never light the prejudice ilia doctors doctor all tied hod against water lit in former days la is tal vanishing nowadays it Is pretty well agreed that pure water not too cold Is about as aa good stun stuff as aa a perron pernon can swallow it it is i diqui lett or very soft by nature it dissolves and carr carries les away tile the honc bone stuls bluffs thelt v 0 lah uld old ago aar at eiery health rest it t where lat springs are umed thera patients p are encouraged to drink all the water they possibly can and the result Is 19 almost al rrOsE always benelli caal As in many ny people doubtless drink 1 too loo little waa t r UK al too much the rule f might be laird d if the th v aier mc r la is the right hind drink ill you want it if it isgitt dont drink any nut but even it if a man were to drink but distilled water worn mern to avoid beef eat cat fruits aults and shun the compan 1 of 0 his 1114 fellows that he might 1 not receive from them the deadly germ i j ot of communicable disease he would still mill 1 bu be in dansca LIA cv ol of dissolution ot at tile die un I 1 timely ase age of 0 a hundred or so BO unions ho cour control his nerves and preserve a placid mind lit in providing against this contingency conics comes the opportunity port unity tor for measures more pyrotechnic and sensational than mere over food and drink many are arc tile tho rules for avolt imir nerv em tho the liest and briefest Is IB perhaps horace fletch eri er i never bis be angry and never be afraid Ilet chers disciples are arc quite numerous to lu chicago the delsarte people and physical culture teachers in the east aim to rive people lone life by laziness when one Is bitting bolt art upright v with ith his muscles tense lies hes using up vital elleby so ho daem ishin lien ho he snaps bia li fingers wrinkles ills ilia blow bidwa plays with a fidget or I 1 drums with a perell pencil the tha pei soil mho lie has learned to relax to decompose the mus muscles cies to sit as flaccid as a meat meal ling bag while resting Is ile IT in tile the may of 0 loni long life the relaxing relax lne exercises wherein women who alone have time for such 11 thlin 1 i h ip roll ilk ilac elephants swing their 1 t 1 feet heads trunks and arms stoop to touch the floor and 0 otherwise th c r w cavort t to s low alow music have a all I 1 ti a 1 direct I 2 t bearing upon the preservation of nerve force those nho teach ahem th adelsa their pupils that if they would ho be beautiful something more important than longevity to the average woman as aa she Is apt to think they must avoid emotion eschew love practise charity without sympathy novel never fret be scold 01 1 I reel feel anger or head diodad and liv ave r placid mill running emotionless lives lit in utter this may not after all be cholly n holly avise advice of course one should learn to rest property properly and to relax mind and body when oft off duty but if ac we were to see sec a healthy man isolated in III somo some mountain retreat for pure ales sake bake t avoiding tv ills his fellows felloni s eschewing all emotions dolne doing no ner benc a exhausting wol weib k and devoting ills days to the ing of his days we should look upon a nian man less ICES likely to become a centenarian than to grow crazy from pure boredom and commit 1 a I not inexplicable suicide perhaps a certain amount of emo exorcise exercise Is as necessary to health as hire are physical and mental exercise the examples ot of famous cen centenail tenal tans ans do not altogether bear out alit the theories of the nervo nerve rel dr parr who lived to be was as irregular lit in his life as any gay blade who dies young tn lit his sins an example ot of quite another or ter sort sir moses U on I 1 though bough a man of 0 pure conduct had enough excitement cit ement in its his dangerous journeys to palestine and in other crises of ill his 5 life to kill a nervous weakling thrice over there are plenty ot of examples example in public life such as gladstone and pope leo XIII ot of men who have attained a reasonably old age in spite of exciting and important nervous strains the conclusion that nervous strains are riot not necessarily fatal to longevity seems partly borne out by study of 0 tile the reported cases of centenarians centen arians I 1 have collated hundreds of 0 such cases within tile the past few years the old people have been usually poor because those who have little money are not so apt either to eat too much or to he discontented its as tile the more fortunately unfortunate or un unfortunately fortuna to ly fortunate hut but they have not been avels of oc placid lives they have been in very many cases plon pioneers cers indian fighters and have borne hardships and privations women centenarians centen arians are arc consides consi dei ably more numerous than men many lany of 0 their cases are so be briefly reported that it Is impossible impossible t to 0 tell jell whether hether they are wives an and too 3 t hers or not from those accounts wherein this point Is made clear alear it may be boated t that hat most of 0 those women who live to extreme old age were not only married but the mothers mother q of largo large families ill A far larger pio proportion portion ot of centenarian te women have borne from nine to twelve children each than Is the average of 0 women ot of fewer years if experience Is any guide the calm placid and emotionless life ot of the old ma maid id la a not so act conducive to length of years us the battles of matrimony and I 1 the nervous physical sit strain aln of anatel 1 ally many times limes repented repeated and from this fact some have deduced the fanciful idea that during gestation and lac tation tallon the mother does not grow crow old I 1 and the processes of decay aro are arrested r it 11 Is simpler find quite quit as reasonable to ti conclude that happiness Is the best tonic I 1 on oil tile the other I 1 hand T regular habits and i a abar bronce nce ot of reason reasa 11 to worry about tile the problems ot or existence seem favorable to longevity aie not evl over r one in COO lit in in enst st of our states but a very much larger proportion perhaps one lit in right eight or ten ot of centenarians centen arians are found in stills hou Peli a reflection which may suggest a doubt ot of the desirability of very long ions life unless it Is ac accompanied cOmPall led by 3 youthful 0 O 1 cleor r 0 r such a thing 1 ln f a as s a very fat and very old man or woman Is unheard of cen cell iten ten arians are almost invariably people anil and habiba frame citino I 1 of spare pure oft of etling rall ni many of IV indulged all I 1 their heir lives in ia oft cc apt ait I tobacco ob acco boina have occasionally used I 1 1 liquor ll quor but the r rule it le Is that heavy and halili ual hard dankers do to not become old I 1 the world to la so 60 small email 11 lad and tile the human race so ao clot cloudy iely bound tog thee r that no iffat ani inart con can bolvi the blem of loni long life 0 ou 11 by himself the mUll mUllo onalie naise oil ilife r fifth ial IAN avenue antle li Is as mabll to get a mat depth gerin from into ills his aristocratic ar 1 sto cratte and ami important perron P c r as aa iq if his humble neighbor lit in a third avenue flat longer life will come its ar it him has come by lol ilni the level and the habits and ideal of 0 the whole c immunity the average tei in or of human life has doubtless doubled 1011 b I 1 ed since liing progress rrOK resa moving ever gitil will accelerating tread why may it no not double again by 1950 and cholera and typhus and typhoid the measles mea ales and smallpox can all be absolutely rooted out of humanity and I 1 nade as aa extinct an aa tile the dodo it mankind could unite in wise sanitation tubercular dis diseases casci can lie ile suppress suppressor od as aa surely but much more slowly the jangling nerves that rack ua its can be schooled and our grandchildren will inherit tho the benefit of the schooling in theory the human race could in aps 13 cps than a century obliterate about fill all the causes of 0 death save old are age and accident then we might all at let least live to be very old by bar present standards might average octogenarians pos poll stilly bably centenarians centen arians of 0 this can be no doubt whether hether wo we could so go farther and can call no man surpassingly old until he had achieved his years or SM let Is al a fa problem but obviously one that cannot be answered very soon JOHN LANGDON HEATON |