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Show SMILE AND ENJOY LONG LIFE SPAN: WORRY: DIE YOUNG Smile and whether or n-M the world smiles with you, you may live to be I 105 years old. In an article ln the Journal of the American Medical As sociatlon, it is said cultivation of the proper mental attitudes may prolong the life span five years into the second sec-ond century, not only for the ex- Js tremely rare specimen of humanity J but for many others. The claim Is based on the fact, or the assumption, assump-tion, as the case may be, that the average life of an animal Is five times the number of years needed to attain Its full skeletal develop-menu develop-menu In the case of a human being tweniy-one years are required. Five times twenty-one are 105. At present, we are told, only thirty-three of every 100,000 persons will attain the age of 100 years', but with pioper qualities of equanimity, contentment con-tentment and optimism man might be on nn equal footing with his dog when it came to living out his allotted al-lotted span of life. There nre, of course, those who say that men dig their graves with their teeth, but perhaps proper mental attitudes are relied upon to prevent that and other follies tending to shorten life. A proper mental attitude, presumably, presum-ably, banishes worry. That should be a factor in economics Without worry how could there be depressions depres-sions described as psychological? There would be new meaning when lii'e was likened to a glad sweet sorur. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow tomor-row we die" might be revised and shortened to read : Be merry and rive to 105. It would be a new case of "smilin' through" through one century cen-tury into another. The prospect Is pleasant, or would be If proper attitudes atti-tudes were not the nardest of growths to cultivate in the midst of the attitudes of the other kind, which are the fast growing weeds In the gaiden of mentality. Boston Transcript. |