Show Great Handicap p Suffered by i Children Childre rn of Diseased Parents j S By Dy s Sir i G GT a. s Sims ms W. W d li al alI I of Medical Schools Cambridge UniS Uni- Uni I J S oJ S. S S i I said we ou ought ht to live Uve till we I believe that if It we come into the world with our full fullS S complement of health and strength If our heredity- heredity is all right if our ourI our S parents were strong if we have as asIt I i It were come Into lato the world In norS normal nor nor- J S mal mat healthy conditions we ought to live until we are a h hundred But as asa asa asi i a rule we do not S There are accidents and there are various s sets ts of conditions which Interfere in inS interfere In- In S with the normal course of 5 our lives If you take as Sir Ir CA George rge S Humphry did did a whole series of old people you will find they lived under S cry very good natural conditions Sixty or seventy per per- percent cent of them were not overactive but they took plenty of oC 4 exercise r When they they were young they were r not overworked T mental montat development development devel- devel was carried on slowly their theirS physical development was also carried carrl car car- car car- S rl ried d' d don on on comparatively slowly but equally throughout Excesses Are Av Avoided d They did not overeat or over over- I i drink they are people who wh were not poisoned by an excess of the he various j J substances in the alimentary canar I in the stomach and the intestines i The bulk are of or equable disposition i they al' al aTe are aln n n not t sr straining T luing ing excessively SiLv Y I-Y after things they can not attain i. i Cardinal d de Sails of Venice wrote at tho the age of By Dy being old when I was Wa young bung r I very young Yh when p. p I am 11 old J Jle JJ m meant ant that at by gi-E gi iea care J In u his you th 3 by ji not ai te m I pi n g to do things Things he he no was v Snot not nol al lol I 1 io do tic 5 he ho lived to a good old age and was young at the end endI endS S studious and I have led a A. A not litzy lazy or s tho car car- tO te My l i i 6 spar spar spar- S ing lug though delicate my llY liquor the best wines in which I never exceeded a pint at a meal la lu cold told weather wether we th er cr when I 1 allowed a thir 1 more I J rode rde and walk walked walk Mentally l i he e jc cultivate Hival if if a a c conscience scIencE ence void of offense to 10 God and mai man mati In the thc individual the tho processes pro pro- j jot flea death th take place hreso equally that no single part of or the body g i 3 way the other Tissues Widely Differ The Tho tissues of the body hody develop at very different periods of life lIle The 1 he thymus gland gland gland-a a gland behind the thorax thorax thorax-Is is old when we come com Into the world and at tie etC age o of fourteen it disappears it has pl played I its s part partin in lii the earlier PH pu Hi o od oil of life The The brain continues to grow and develop until untila a comparatively late period of life Ufe but even this has Its acme its maximum at different pe nods The memory may go but S the the In Intellectual Intellectual In- In power of oC coordination may remain and so 80 long as you have havo that the individual is not senile The time comes however when all these powers pOwers give give way They do doso 80 so suddenly and people wh who have lived to a very long life and been healthy die a as a rule quite sudden sudden- ly hy They fall asleep without any pain The machine stops it has run rundown rundown rundown down That is the perfection of oC old ago Why should we not live like that Unfortunately y we all come into Into- the world at a u certain age One child Isborn is isborn isborn born with a good start It has a a mind capable of great great development it Is well Avell balanced balanced bal bal- and azid receives from its parents s capable pable of living for a long lerl period d That child hild under r rn n normal condl conditions conditions' s will live I t to a hundred I 1 gins 40 nut But next child ot bf alcoholic of-alcoholic lc or parents parentS' the child that is starved when It comes into the world w-orld will start rt Jis life Ute at tort forty y years ars not t a ago It c cannot Jive beyond sixty and in all probability may be cut off oft very early Consider r these statistics of people wh lived between eighty and a hundred six Fifty-six per cent cent had hadI I lived Ived In c circumstances I 35 5 pe per cent cent had b been en poor 10 per f Cent ent were affluent Ninety per cent h had hd d always enjoyed enjoy- enjoy I ed cd d good health 92 per cent had had hada a good digestion 88 per cent had bad hadad had ad good appetites appetites' es' es as well Ninety four p per r c cent cant nl bf of these I healthy old people leople had led an active J life fe 6 G per per percent cent had led a sedentary fe Ife 7 7 pcr per cent had Uv liv much out of f doors but they had not carried on their heir excesses excesses too late In Uto they had ad gradually lowered their a r ties les and I I believe that Is on one of df the great great seer secrets ts' ts of old age Do any mount amount amount when you are young but grad gradually u ease case otTo oft when you are getting get- get ting Ing old d An Another ther thing Is that nearly all old people cople are aregood are good goad sleepers sleepers' I do not sl cp i rs but soUnd Bound sleep sheep ers rs Thero There is a a dUt 0 o |