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Show TEST OF YOUTH You often see a woman at the market pinching the end of a chicken's breastbone to find out how tender in other words, how young the fowl is. Oddly enough, the same test with human beings js one of the most reliable known. If in advanced life the lower part of your breastbone feels elastic elas-tic when pushed inward, you may assume that no important changes have yet taken place in your arteries, or otherwise in your anatomical make-up. The human breaHtbone Is Bhaped like an ancient Roman worl, and the upper part of It Is like the sword handle. Its point is a piece or cartilage, which anatomists call the "xiphoid" cartilage. The early hardening and stiffening of It Indicate that the changfs that accompany old age have prematurely prema-turely begun. Youth's Companion. |