Show r HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING Page Eight Do You Know Biological Age of Self? JULY 12 1938 tinV" airplanes in race Many men and women who in years have reached the allotted three score and ten have been heard to exclaim: “I am 70 bat I feel like 35" What then is the biological age of such a person who is really only as old as he feels? Science today recognizes that a real difference exists 'between actual and physical age or in other words between chronological and biological age This dif- ference may be a matter of months or a matter of years Some persons live faster than others and grow old more quickly So the years of a person’s age are not a true index of the state of the body A method has been found to help determine biological age It has been discovered that the degree of accommodation of the eyes to near and distant visions gives a rather definite Indication of the probable length of life according to a statement a meeting of the National —Associated made-befor- Academy of Sciences by Doctor Felix Bernstein physiologist and mathematician and visiting professor at Columbia university Doctor Bernstein says that the eye is the most sensitive index of a normal calcification process which takes place in all organs and that this calcification is useful as an index of biological age A correlation has been found between conditions produced in the eyes by this process and the age of the persops The advance In calcification causes a lessening of the ability of the eye to accommodate itself to near and distant clear-seeiBifocal glasses usually are prescribed to offset this effect according to Doctor Bernstein and the use of bifocals before he age is not indicative of of forty-fiv- e ng a long life Because the eye is a very sensitive indicator of the degree of calcification Doctor Bernstein thinks that it might be used as an indication of the existence in its early stages of arteriosclerosis Half the people in the United States who pass the age of fifty die of this or related diseases from heart stroke or brain stroke any any advance Indications might be found helpful to the jnedical profession Nature Helps Us Nature is a very wonderful thing and always comes to our aid making any adjustments that are necessary for our wellbeing For instance in the winter time when it is cold our pores close and we are able to keep the heat in our bodies In summer when the weather is very hot our pores open we perspire and through this evaporation of (moisture from our bodies we are able to keep cool and feel refreshed So why worry about hot weather when nature is so kind to us LOUIS EAGAR - - 12 Mammoth Pres photo Scores of boys competed in Los Angeles recently in sponsored by the Midget Air Races club The miniature airplanes which could fly farthest on a thimble full of gasoline won The small craft are made of wood covered with silk and are equipped with minute gasoline engines — and pneumatic landing gear air-race- s Riddles What word which is the name of a number disappears when two letters are taken from 1 it? 2 In what way are a duck's feathers and a fallen tree alike? 3 Why is a ship always very polite? 4 What do you think would be favorite game by a group of Arizona young folks desiring to change an old order of things for the sake of novelty? Desecration no less might be the word uttered with hands uplifted in horror Well at any rate the golfers of Tempre Ariz have gone and done it They have cast aside their golf sticks and substituted slingshots In teeing-o- ff the ball is placed in a' huge slingshot A large sling shot is used for driving the ball long distances It is formed of two crossed up-r- ig h t pieces l What license plate number would be preferred by a motorist who is a’’ great fancier 'of dogs? 5 Why is a pleasant person a like story? 6 What can be caught although it never can be seen? Sling Shot Golf New the opinion of canny Scots on learning of a daring Innovation that has just been made in their This Tells Us Why Al Lions Like to Roar used by the players to support It while in use A huge rubber band attached to each end of the upright posts is connected to a leather pocket for holding the golf ball The distance the ball is driven depends of course entirely on the tension put on the rubber bands Besides the largest slingshot two smaller ones are used The smallest of the three is used for putting You probably have been to the circus many times and you have probably heard and seen the lions roar but do you know why they roar? To find this out you will have to take an imaginative trip to the Jungle where the wild lions live and watch them while they do their hunting A lion hunts two ways: First he prowls about and searches for prey If he is not successful in finding anything to catch he creeps quietly up on to a little rise of ground or to the edge of a cliff and then suddenly gives a loud roar Now if you happened to be right near this lion when that awful roar broke the stillness of the Jungle you would be very startled Maybe you would Jump and move your arms or legs That is exactly what quickly most of the smaller more timid animals do The lion is sure to see one of them or to hear a twig snap or a leaf rustle then he pounces upon his prey Of course lions roar for other reasons too: When they fight or when they are angry sometimes just for the fun of it but mostly they roar when they wish to frighten their prey ' ” KNIGHT BANNERET MARJORIE MILLER with a center horizontal timber which is The large sling used in "Teeing off" in slingshot golf The distance the ball is driven depends upon the tension put on the big rub-- ber bands Tremonton Delphinium The delphinium is blooming Such a lovely hue! Flowering in my garden A bright and bonny blue Fernlike are the leaves Tall and slender is the stem— Bell-liare the blossoms — Oh I do love them! ke PAGE JEAN GUNDERSON Price |