Show TEST OF YOUTH mo you often see a woman at the market pinching the end 0 of a chicken chickens s breastbone to find out how tender in other words how young the fowl Is oddly enough the same test with human beings is one of the most reliable known it in advanced life the lower part of your breastbone feels elas tic when pushed inward you may assume that no important changes have yet taken place in your arteries or otherwise in your anatomical make up the human breastbone la Is shaped like an ancient roman sword and the upper part of it Is like the sword handle its point Is a piece of cartilage which anatomists call the cartilage the early hardening and stiffening of it indicate that the changes that accompany old age have prema aurely begun youth youths s companion |