Show Ik Jk Gives Rules for Extended Life Ily senie Service PARIS Oct 1 Do l. Do nothing Think Make your mind an absolute blank These are aro the axioms of or eternal youth routh according to Grand Apostolate Ik founder and high priest of religion of Ot the perfect sphere whatever sphere whatever that may mean mean- and very latest arid and newest of the queer i faiths and creeds which are perpetually popping up In Paris philosophy put the Ik in kick is at the moment of writing writing writ wrIt- ing not yet fully established The new religion elision i however already boasts forty lorty or fifty faithful adherents who live jive lve ir In a tent colony on a of the Brittany coast and run about clad in potato sacks Th The potato sack is vouched for by no less a person than himself It really ought to be skins he said wistfully but they are too expensive ex ex- pensive and wo we have not been able to find any wild beasts around our camp Some complaints have been regIstered registered reg reg- with the police by neighbors of the camp who claim that the sacks may have been originally intended for potatoes potatoes po po- but are aro more the size or peanut bags In fact they say scenes at the camp in early morning indicate that there have not been enough to go around The police reply has been that France is a land of personal liberty and that as long as the dont don't para parade e around the neighboring neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring boring- villages it is immaterial whether er they wear em or not on their own pr private property j f Ik is of r indeterminate nation nation- He Ho says he is of Finnish extraction extraction extraction extrac extrac- tion on his mothers mother's side and that his father was the result of a marriage be between between between be- be tween a Mohammedan and a Chinaman He looks like that His hair of reaches to his waist and his face is noteworthy for a singular absence of eyebrows When you question him on this delicate point he merely raises the place where they ought to be and says that they wore out through excessive brain work It was through this overwork that he came he affirms to discover his cure One day he felt a sudden crack found that his mind refused great to ru functIon MI i to ru functIon MI i on For fifteen minutes I lay on m my bed perfectly conscious but absolutely without the faculty of ot thought ne no re re- re lates bates When it 11 passed I found to my surprise that I was as refreshed In body and spirit as thou though h I had had three weeks in bed In the tho mountains with the window open From that experience experience- I reasoned that making ones one's mind an absolute blank must be a good thing so 1 cultivated the habit Finally I got ot so that I could walk ten miles my legs and bod body performing performing- their usual functions but my brain absolutely dormant As the end of the walk walle when my mind I started again I would feel as fresh as though I hadn't had any walk at all It is five years ears since I made my discovery and in that time by turnIng turn turn- Ing my head Into n. n vacuum lor sor eight hours every week I have grown twenty twenty ty years younger I am 58 now and feel as RS spry as a youngster of 20 Pierre a French magazine riter who visited the colony says that the spectacle of ot all the sitting around In a a. circle making their minds into perfect blanks was wag one of the most mOlt Interesting sights he has ever witnessed |