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Show TO LIVE A LITTLE LONG CP Ever the Elusive Hope of Humanity From Which It Seems It Can Not Be Separated. The fountain of youth Is the dream of the young At thirty the springtim ol life is all but gone. Lines en i't upon the ace. scored by cares m r. has not yet the wisdom to throw off the girth becomes matter of f-onsid eration. the (eet begin to lag. the stairs grow long Then comes the re pivt for the quick years. It canno; have been a mere dream which came to Ponce de Leon in Porto Rico am' lured him to Florida in search or trr ni;;gical island of Bimini and the tov.n tain whose waters gave youth lorevi i to the hardy voyager No longer do we seek immortality in ten, ole geography No longer do we look to tlu philosopher to give us length of ytars We have had revealc-d to us the uselessuess and the iniquity el the colon, ah too late to risk its ( xcision We have been informed I km we do not really grow old: we yield to arterio-sclerosis. Still e have the hope that aging humanity has alvays had The years of a man art ihe imrs or his colon and his aon a Now comes from Paris our latest ho:e lor the years declining Modes! ly Dr Doyen the discoverer, an lioimces no absolute elixir vit.ae He thinks only that he is nearer find n. It than any one before him The tale conies to us in the newer jargon, un known and magnificent It is my colysine which is to prolong our years lo a considerable extent It is to (lis solve germs which in their activity m sbi wreck us. it -is to give new strength lo the phagocytes which are the de vom ers of our inner ills. In a barbarous phrase it Is to decuplize, to multiply by ten. the power of our resisting re-sisting agents As we look back we can spare without with-out t gi'e! ihe fountain of youth Always Al-ways lo be callow might not be an un mixed b'essing Hut to keep forever the years of man. to hold the stores of memory, to live steadily and to live whole to find al last the elixir of I'J'e such as this has charm for us in these adult centuries as it had in the childhood of man |