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Show J TH 0- 1 SUNDAY HgR&tP SUNDAY, JIAY 21. 1825. n - e cycle oF life J the artist oil a ' . v...,'j.-.'-y..- T ) TJE --a ahead iclenca visions bnM luT unlocking tb rlgdle to perpetuul youth. ' Destined by Nature to the texendary. role of plebeian flailing 6431. the worm, overnight almont, ft" , ' V-.- . .k. yyy I ii-.4- -- . - . .y-v- : mm r- . S5ie i .vww aF i, T:rW WVaW ScHbol-bo- y bid like asnajl WTJaiV creep- -' un- - school rY.rf ' K lJsi rl LU if 5 thuselah. oldest Bible 450year I - father-- , ' - N JmA 9ooas and, ttao s - JviUJ of I . Ag?TX;'VJ1'- - . sf memories sans ' AGE NOT I;:iKMENT ON TIME 1 ...l.s... "Thus age does' nut rtepend on the lapse of time; it Is the expresmoii nr Internal processes. .'The elixir of life, so hint sought In the Middle jAges, has at lust been found -- but, ahul only for V s flatworma as yet." ' The ellxer may yet be adapted to man. , " ' Huxley admits as much but dues nut enter Into 'prophecy. , What he bat dona, In every day language. Is reverse the life process In one of the tower forma .of animal. f yThls act, fellow scientists (that It is possible to regulate the rate of growth ana we lengm oi tue penoa oi growm, a inmg hsretofore, unknown and constituting the neces- sary sdentiflo premise for Indefinite longevity; Dlsaster has frequently reversed the mental life of human beinga without 'laying holi on the , , physical derelopmehC . Huxley mentions that In some and 'aurastbenia cases the patients revert to an earlier stage of mental existence, having 1 the minds of children and the bodies of adults. v 350 y Kra al and rfetifci to Pleasure ten and it U 'He tnacle mewlinnd. puking ; ? " '' . . L , ."The most striking case,1 he suys, wns ihut an Austrian soldier who reverted to the con-- dltion of an Infant, unable to walk or talk and : 'capable ot taking any food but milk. This la known mental regragalun.'' ,,He believes that the wriggling worm may yet give up the secret bf pbystcal reversibility, thereby which suppluntlng the ordinary type of Hneconsiders has been adopted not as the only possible method for grappling with existence but rather as the most convenient. ' case of higher forms of mnmmal life,, span of (rata hus been projonged by. ebout 40 per cent through the same process era ployed with worms. Cj . f This has led Professor Huxley to deduce that "observation' of life process has given way to experiment as the chief method of research, an! ' experiment is leading to control." tss .of In-- jrntha l H1ST0RT URST HAND With age stayed through artificial means, en- tenariaas would 1eorne common enough and tho' records of history; na longer he required foraii thentie wermdn of the happenings of; yesteryear, aunc stui treadln with the Imhg would be of very old young folk who could aupply . .fcy.'word nt mouth al Qecessary facta.' ,. 'Infants ol th re centuries hence could be lulled to eloep: on ttws toeklng-horscradlei of their knees;' now living today either as youths or very young parents. ','y-'- ' J Leader of rhoujrht na longer would have thelc life's work severej by the grave, but could e'on-- , tinue on, and, thrtfiigb a progressive, advanca In benefit the world and make it sua a better place. In which to live, j Romances silch as these con be stretched to tha !,eercst heights of fancy, . ' And whe Is there to., say that grateful man - mar not rectSome golden tribute to the lowly worm and causa it to be venerated as an oracle :.,-.- o Pof. Julian Meyi vno naa Fa lonW ihft life ' : ,mv of J AIL him w iwaym lit,, w si ii : : ' ..." j r. f f"ru!'i Qi ftejcarab'i NOW STUDY Alchemy . V 5 v I . ship by the old Egyptlhna for the groat lesson " J , . . , population reached One of ' ' .. ' ft the veiV naar'uhufc a life span of, 2ooo ;Mfe4icb " were of shorter duration than our own. and con tend that life today has Increased 10 yean over all'the centuries. w.. W. John J3ath, nationally famous; actuary Says of Omaha, Neb., who has built a reputation for Interpreting mortality tables and other statistics on which , large insurance companies base their .. - lhe!,'r, J U popu-latio- wjha-.'totlf- frola male v b femaie if sill K . - ' ...... L- -. . ciSrerse!y - . v-- ' - eml-jien- . " - V gave way to science .with . And the study of glandSt n n docrtaology, as It is called, baa. led to aiany improvements In the treat-mcv of disease and surgery. In their search for youth the as citaita.wereuJioUjtwttre. thai growth bean a definite relation to longevity. Minot, the famous biologist, in-troduced some interesting oat re-- ' garding this relationship. 'That' men org larger than raV- bits," he aoys, "because they" grow for longer period, is a common observation; but, on the other hand, rabbits attain a larger else thaw guinea pigs, not because they grow larger but because they, grow faster. ' Minot then concludes that the efficients 'of growth, together with the duration of .gro.vth, determloV, the ultimate'' else of "the organism. and that as a rule the- larger' the) animal the. longer it. lives and the v slower senility ensues. J eo' i' .' . cIaKD - Eugene Lyman Fisk, noteoV Americanjfc)ioElst and direct'or 'of the Ufa EiT-tension IlMtitute, predicts that if science continues 1 . " at Its present rets ot progress, within a com- . , awards: . . is" men time Ufa s, short tha of a record Switzerland human in jwratively average "There will be 2000 years. who lived to be 335 years old. The oldest man, t , ' v ,r r When this era of uqlvenit longevity arrives in the United States, of whom we have record.' he foresees the arising of numerous, contingencies lived In Massachusetts. He died just few year --n necessitating dlsposaj of the earth's surplys -:; f 15$.' at of the i ago age through controlling birthrate by determiR-in-g A isWt T . llrastsi Wlilsn i s narsaiains'' v sV v i.. rY ff rfy' Thus .4 evolution, on the authority of stu aex, selectlvu euthanasia,, which means put. i j,. ting .people to death by tot and rocketing still dents, Lu. gives positive evidence, based on his ( in 'to in. .other, unnecessary people isUnt hides projeotlieg smdi tdmsis, tory, and other source of Information, that it la " planebi v ' B ' tending td lengthen rather than shorten.' ; T , f . ScSt trunsformatlon already has beon .achieved , And now comeis Professor Huxley's cutmlnatlnoj to a degree in the experiments carried on by Dr. neede4 eez can, In Ihs :. to what must hava hen a 'prodigious old age it attempt- to And perpetual- youth through science,' elecUVily of the 4no t: Erich EUsteln of Berlin and "Dr. Stelnacb, The ancients sought It, too, their years measured tha same ai ours. future, easily be achieved and adda that "unless Viennese pfiyslclan,, who changed sexual ' They had their, alchemists and soothsayers nd even characteristics In small animals from male to tro pmctfcaTTy anOllshed the birthrate, we would , ' Among them was Methuselah, whose name ;t supposed magic potions for the purpose." . female and conversely by' gland transplantation. Ior-bBut Buxley Is In earnest and la going about t . ' " worn tm .ntiteu f hfi' tislt .lntMIIs'ntlv. fnrr. tn ' fhtf . flnsnlf U thla i,tBsiimonifromllie rt1t.2-th- e , ' g ' srjjntlsts ara wont to believe that tha pible years once Immortality in the flesh has been . regular hli own nt 4 ft ' '.. 2000 iEARS OP JFE i So firmly is the faith: 6f men like' Huxley 'grounded on expectation "that- - human iff 9 soon may be prolonged beyond the wildest hop'ea of any living layman, that other ' votaries of the theory of perpetual youth have come forward with methods of disposing ot the cdrth's surplus , macy. i ,. aughtf , its offspring of chemistry and phar- muum rnul-Vttia- V yoath-givin- . J' . " .v. were subjects for eutoana3la. e "Assuming; that science la not checked in Its re that In the change searches, I um willing to of 600 years the hunjun race will present physical changes that will render human society fcntirely .; v unrecognizable to those ot the present era". "But diasipatlos of 'energy and geologic change in the distant. future will finally abolish all lire - on earth." 1 .... .' , If the dTtum of such lnScflnlte longevity comes Auo, Nthon people will stop saving for their old oee. No one will be entitled to be called "mister" until at test 5C0 "years old,. and the law, too, win titve "fd rem&ael Its conception Ot what constitutes 'Juvenile delinquency. It is pointed out. lived-- .rriiiiim' Ions, recounta jtsveral uif.toalp)-aih- o , - draughts ot an elixer Of concoction. Once the eminent Roger 3a con thought he had discovered perpetjol T " Vouth in potable gold.. He related that an old man" plow . ing his fields In Italy came one day upon a golden phial, 'drank of Its contents, supposing them to be deWt and was immediately transformed into a hale and hearty youth Ponce do Leon crossed dangerous ' seas and headed for the new world to find a magic sprint that native legend had estahUehed on a mysterious island called Btmlnl. . citation. decide as to those tyhowere to live and thos shell-shoc- e " - the-wis- - fortune " . ( f: v lived four centuriea through fW x s BABE fu; OTHER ATTEMPTS Then came Frederick GuaJdo, the Koaicrucian, who claimed (o have . MAN BECOMES . When put on trial for his veracity, considerable. showed Artephlus knowledge of the past He was ahlo to recite details ot event thaijVd happened five and six hundred year before and caused several near Tiota historians. .. teetK sans ey . ' " the centuries the) youth baa been mankind's flee tine will-o- 1025 years.- - - ! r3"4 - - pro.-eeil- - . lure, at It has served as much the quest of sold and many arc tha uaclanta' who nave -s- pent- One in : search of the other. ' .'While alchemy was in flower dur Ing the twelfth century and phlogla-to- n and alkahest held away over the superstitious minds of the muttt. ttida. (here arose one Artephlus who wrote a learned treatise on the sub jeet of everktating life. .This person, called "Art" by bui Intimates, said "beat thla one," after he had gone Into hiding and returned after a while shouting to the world hia story ot having lived ys: from the observation . of man and the familiar animals. Is that It alwuys and inevitably a definite direction with a' definite plan. " "The normal life cycle of man la as .follows: The individual starts as a minute single cell, then follows a period of rapid growth accompHfiH-i jt differentiation. Then growth without dllter 1. entltotlon. Then senility and finally deuth, which .; , supervenes as s natural phenomenon, even It not ' ' . through disease or accident. , i''"it has been shown, bowevefrthat hy Bltei ' Bfttely feeding find starving plunarian ttutworms they can bo kept not' only within certain detinue limits of site, as was to be expected, but also within certain definite limits of age. . "One worm has thus-be- en kept of the same, age that is, the asm lively activity, the some form, the same type Of behavior for a time iur-- . Ins; whlcb the rest of the brood has paused through XI genera'tKihs; a period which, translated . hjto human terms, would take as back, to Chaucer, - k THROUGHOCT ' ', mac - . Qwest .1 Hulflcy-sa- -- Old LI KB IN CYCLE "BIs'rwch'.Trofessor S. ftaicG de C3fes.ea f fountain, u on x of a & "t&'mmehflng i I V J.' seas in searth ' mi ul squirmed himself Into High estate wits who dally ponder nis" of the 'ate, for companion ' In vertebrate shape, hoping to cheat "Time.' Saca announcement luaues with authority frnnj London, where Professor Julian Huxley, adun of ' the famous grandfather whose name be bear la busy in the' laboratories of Oxford, staying 0 age from 4i' whole family t worms, on ol which" be ''La succeeded in keeping alive for in gMwintiuns. c Announcement of " the experiment bus revived interest la possible ellxer, giving man the power ' to' Uv4 Indefinitely, and Interett in the discovery Ik. iu 1mA Affilw H hlatnn, tr hoft Pmim iU Imii V et anil fur the New World In 1611 to Mud the ma- - fountain giving eternal youth to JUuuse wlio , .drank .frwn, ItsVfnbled waters. ' ll'la, !asW.is.j- years cid sih-;- n lover 0e iks a furriaa vermlculiir worm has turned snd. In 1l ' jli!' IHO ' ' pM9:; as inteifeteA-ty- 7 J ' ' r . MM :, I d TURTLE ' i .' Creatures famous tor their Ion gevlty Include the turtle, reputed t attain from three to seven oentortee) In age; the parot, often living well past the. century mark; pike and fcrp, ISO years, and eagles, falcons ' "' and crows, a century. ' 1 Of mammals, only man, the elephant and the whale live to be 10 ; years old. , The great majority of ; Individuals appear to have been ot ' medium height and build, of quiet' ' 4 and regular habits. ' ., Women as a rule live longer thaat. men, supposedly because they leal sheltered, and , protected & are not to oftea thrown Into tact Vrith anis o p " " "" tag-live-- wt'M4 i |