Show i YOUTH r i at Forty FT Surrender to Old Age when When Youthfulness Is Natures Nature's Way Natures y Diana Watts W fid's tId's dS youngest middle-aged middle woman authority on phy- phy cal secrets of the ancient Greeks of The Renaissance of the re reek k Ideal floes the woman approaching 40 jender ender herself herselt to the deadly belief bellet she is physically on the downam down I le am m afraid the answer that woula would I post ost cases is Laziness a condi- condi I of laziness induced by the genuine Sue rue that is regarded as the normal of ot middle life Ute Rudy Judy dy the average woman of ot 35 and ands Tas s she walks walls in front of ot you on streets She looks as though she shea alleg leg at each a corner No Joints at knees no springs in the feet a up crumpled diaphragm sagging Ides and a general air of ot stiff stitt sloppiness ss eu pt would say that youth ha had 1 left body forever You would think that a woman of ot 40 40 it ifa woman physically Inferior and could could attain strength and a beauty more at- at tive than that of her girlhood et etI know it is not only possible lat altogether practicable Nor is it difficult I know because ve it ive done it myself In the process I discovered discovered discovered of ot rebuilding my own body ered worked out and verified the the- physical phy phy- physical system of ot the Ancient Greeks It is hardly too much to say that the Greek system contains the secret ot or perpetual youth mental no less than I physical I am nearly 50 years old Recently I II I swam two taro miles mUes without rest and with little fatigue I can walk all day I teach all day write all da day In the Yale swimming pool I did certain x teats ats of ot balanced diving that were impossible ble for the skillful athletes of ot the uni- uni I I K r rM rY rc Y M c cz z r S Xi f v f ft t i. i 0 4 ci n In leaping turning somersaults somersaults somersaults somer somer- jumping from moving trolley- trolley cars or busses throwing the discus and climbing mountains I am a fit competitor competitor competitor com com- for tor the best trained American college girls in their early twenties I fully tully expect to be doing doing these things when I am 60 70 or 75 It is natural to do o them What is unnatural is the commonly found condition condition condition con con- of heaviness and stiffness There is no reason on earth why the woman of ot 40 should be less attractive than tOE tab woman of 30 there Is every reason why she should be infinitely more so For she can make her body as youthful as a girls girl's while retaining all her added charm of experience and quiet serenity Body and mind mind are two chords In a harmony The fatigue caused by the vacillating movements of an unbalanced unbalanced unstrung body is intimately re related related related re- re to mental uncertainty and Inde Inde- The modern person lacks a fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental principle principIa that may be applied to every sort of ot movement and occupation pation in life This is precisely what the Greeks possessed It made them the most wonderful people in every way that the human race has known So natural is this principle that once grasped by the mind and enforced by the will every movement becomes an exercise Artificial exercising is needed only at first To be continued |