Show KEEPING WELLA X 2 HOW TO LIVE A Y J X I 1 HUNDRED D YEARS UK DR it GIJU X editor of X htmat HOW lung long are you going to lo live that depends largely on how ou are living now the old idea was that every mans life was of a predetermined length and that wien wl en ills time came he died A hundred years ago the average length of life was only a little over twenty years ten tea years ago it was bortels fort els and a halt half years today it Is fafty lave years what Is it going to be in the next fifty years the statistician of 0 a large life insurance 6 company says that ten years yeara could ho be added to the average length of life it if the low death rate in certain parts of the country could he be applied to the whole population in the last fifty years contagious diseases such as smallpox malaria typhoid fever yellow fever tuberculosis and others which formerly were the chief causes of death have been greatly reduced and in some cases case practically wiped out the increased length of life today Is largely due to the reduced mortality from childrens diseases the great reduction in the next generation Is probably going to come from better personal habits the human body la Is an intricate and delicate machine the better care it has the longer it will last we take better care of our bodies than our forefathers did yet many of us shorten our lives by bad personal habits partly due to ignorance partly to carelessness and partly to till unnatural na conditions of present day life primitive man did not need to take exercise he got all he needed hunting his breakfast lie he did not need to regulate his diet he ate everything he could get and was lucky it if lie he got enough today we use our brains too much and our muscles too little in order to keep fit our muscles have a certain amount of work each day the farmer and the imbor laboring man get all the exercise they need coed but the professional man mail the business man the clerk and the office employee need muscular exercise to keep heep lit fit A worm warm bath in the morning a light breakfast and a brisk walk to work woric give one a clear head for the days tasks A reasonable days work simple food a quiet restful evening and to bed and asleep by ten the man who bo follows this program will have little to fear from sickness and should live to a ripe and harpy happy old aze aee |