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NO NEED TO
LOOK OLD
Even If You’re
NOT YOUNG
By William Lee Howard, M. D.
L OSS of youthfulness and decline of beauty are but
reaction of body tlaauea to Injurious Influences.
These Influences can be avoided.
Scientifically we have never until now known just
what these influences were nor upon whaf Inner organs
they exerted their harmful effects. Discoveries in the
Jaat year or so enable us to point out those stabilisers
of the human machine which, if kept in perfect condi
tion, will keep the body, face and mind ever fresh and
youthful.
Of course, this assumes nn inheritance of health
from the start. The majority of American girls have
this inheritance, bat it has been on account of the doc
tors not knowing about the most important repairing
and supplying glands in the body that so many women
have been unable to renew or keep a rightful youthful
ness up to a good age.
The possession of power to remain youthful even
after fifty years had passed o\er them has been the
fortune of a few women. That this Is possible for most
women Is shown by those who have possessed It. These
women possessed no particular secret. The favorable
conditions under which they lived simply preserved
forces that are in all women. Cleopatra, Ninon
d'Enclos, Duchease de Valentlnols, Hernhardt are a few-
well-known women who have been extremely attractive
at a period when moat women are laid on the shelf, old,
wrinkled, worried and forgotten.
These historical beauties and many others had no
real knowledge of how they kept their youtbfulness, but
their conditions of living and mode of dressing, com-
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Important New Discoveries Which HELP WOMEN RETAIN THEIR YOUTH
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Where the Glands That Pre
serve Youth and Beauty
Are Located.
A—Pituitary Body.
B—Thyroid Gland.
C—Supra renals.
D—Spleen.
F—Thymus Gland.
blued with n natural, equable temp-,
eminent, arranged matters for them.
Yet Just what they unconsciously
did to keep their repairing and sup
plying internal juices always active
and chemically balanced you also can
do and know the reason for so doing.
They did not. They have stood, how
ever, as splendid examples of what
can be done by every woman when
she knows.
When these beauties of half a
century and more behind them were
asked the secret of keeping youthful
many kinds of answers were given. "Never worry,"
says one. "Keep up with the times, associate with the
young," answers another. “Because I feel young," re
plies the young girl of sixty years of age. All these
answers had the truth in them, but Just how one could
possess this "always feeling young” attitude they could
not tell. So their answer" still remain riddles.
Science has at last unveiled the secret. Broadly
apeaking, it, was because every organ in the body was
doing Its work. Speaking more specifically, because the
ductless glands about which we knew nothing up to a
very short time ago were in such perfect order that
their secretions poured into the blood stream the chem
ical elements which constantly renew body and mind.
Ixiok at. any of the portraits of the celebrated beau
ties who kept their attractions up to old age as far as
years are concerned, and you will notice they always
allowed freedom of neck. That is, they did not wear
tight-fitting neckwear nor in any way permit a pressure
upon the neck or under the ears. Also sandals or low-
heeled slippers will be seen.
There arc little glands In the neck whose sole duties
are to regulate growth, keep the blood pure, furnish
constantly material for the repair of waste. They con
trol blood pressure, determine changes and alterations
of character, and in all ways really act as stabilizers of
mind, emotions and passionB. There are little glands in
the brain—the pineal, so called because it resembles a
small pine cone; the pituitary, which has great control
over girls’ and women’s development and growth, be
sides other Internal glands whose secretions, if undis
turbed, preserve health and beauty.
These gland? you must understand are the real reg
ulating forces of the whole body and brain. The
thymus gland lies just behind the breast bone. In the
infsnt it is very large and remains large until the
advent of womanhood. Then it shrinks to a very small
thing. But It still remains as a sort of reserve force.
When womanhood arrives the thyroid glands in the
neck, one on each side of the windpipe, are developed
and take up the regulating, the policing of body, emo
tions and mind. The same with the glands in the brain
and other parts of the woman's body. Each kind of
gland has its particular work to do. It is the perfect
harmony with which they work together that makes
for youthfulness.'
You see, no attention has ever been paid to these
glands, because they were thought to be useless, or at
least of little value to man or woman to-day.
The thyroid gland is of far greater importance; that
is, it has far greater influence for good or evil in the
woman than in the man. Jt is her beauty shop. Here
are manufactured the juices which, with the help of the
side shops—the other glands-—go into her blood and
keep away wrinkles, causes the flesh to retain its plump
ness, gives her elasticity and plasticity and furnishes
force and vigor to the nervous system.
The glands in the brain aid woman in keeping her
particular functions in good working order, regulate
her fatness or leanness, keep her mentally active.
Any action or indiscretion on your part which dis
turbs the harmonious working of these glands goes to
make some age sign long before its time These glands
must have a period of rest in order to store up their
fluids. If they do not get this rest their material is soon
exhausted. This means the glands
are deprived of that quantity and
quality, strength and power of youth
making stuff needed hourly by the
blood to take to some part to repair.
Hence this part commences to get
aged when there is really no neces
sity for it. to do so. It may be the
appearance of early gray hair, the
crows’ feet around the eyes, that
"tired feeling.” or some functional
disturbance—somethng somewhere.
Nothing dries up the thyroid
gland so quickly as undue nervous
strain. There are many kinds of
nervous strains which we all have
that do not seriously affect the thy
roid—-those due to natural condi
tions; grief, worry over little fail
ures and things, married worries of
the ordinary kind and the healthful
strain of responsibilities.
The harmful strain upon the thy
roid comes from drawing upon it at'
Why Many TIRED HOUSEWIVES DRINK INK
the work of the glands in the neck 1
tight collars—in
C OFFEE and tea are generally consumed
merely for the pleasure which the warm
drink gives, says Professor It. E. Ogden
In his book on Rural Hygiene. Yet both these
beverages have a certain stimulating effect on
the nervous system.
When a tired woman refuses foed and drinks
instead cup after cup of strong tea she is cheered
and exhilarated for the time being; but this is
only at the expense of nerves and muscles, which
must sooner or later break down if "tea-tippling”
Is persisted In to the exclusion of food.
Similarly, when a man under stress of busi
ness or depression drinks strong black coffee to
keep up, he must pay the penalty for the stimu
lant some way or another, somehow or aqothor.
The natural forces of the human body are able
to do normally a certain amount of work; and
tbelr ability to perform this work is directly in
proportion to the energy derived from the food
•upply taken into the body. .
A machine Is kept going by the fuel in 'he
furnace; the machine may be made to go faster
by means of bellows. Coal is the fuel, the bel
lows stimulate tlit* flame.
In the human machine food (meat and vegeta
bles) are the fuel; tea, coffee, alcohol are as the
bellows they are not the fuel.
No amount of tea. coffee or alcohol will add
to the living tissue (the nerves and muscles and
organs) of the body; these stimulants merely
goad the nerves and muscles to further action,
however tired and unwilling they may be.
When the stimulant is stopped, or after a time
in spite of the stimulant, the exhausted nerves
and muscles refuse to continue their work, and
the weakened bofly rebels, stops work and may
even die.
A certain amount of atlmulants at rare inter
vals, when there Is unusual stress, or for particu
lar occasions may do no harm.
Hut the pity of it is that if the habit la once
started the ultimate bad effects are forgotten
in the apparent relief of the moment.
Besides the baneful stimulative effect of tea, a
substance known as tannin is developed in the
brewing, and this tannin is really harmful on ac
count of its strong astringent property, which
tends to injure the delicate membrane of the
stomach.
Sometimes tired housewives, without knowing
it, are really drinking ink. Ink is a liquid com
posed of iron and tannin dissolved in water.
When tea is brewed in an iron kettle and left
standing “to take a drop” of from time to time
it is sure to be strong in tannin. The iron from
the kettle Combines with the tannin and pro
duces nothing more or less than ink.
The bitter taste of the tannin is disguised when
milk is used with the tea. Tea without milk cr
cream may be safer thaj tea with milk, because
without the milk the bitter taste would prevent
the tea being boiled so long.
WHICH WILL LOOK THE
YOUNGER 10 YEARS FROM NOW.
“The woman who gives her neck
times when it should be storing up freedom,” says Dr. Howard. "High
material for vouthfulness. This collars and other close fitting neck
means that the girl who works all day wear hastens 0,d a 9 e b y hampering
and dances most of the night will in
time lose those forces which make for long-time beauty
and youthfulness. You cannot overwork the beauty
shop and still be able to call upon it to work for you.
Y'oti should have your fun and play, but they must be so
arranged that they do not use up glandular juices.
Eight to ten hours’ sleep every day is what you must
get. Then there are days when you should loll and loaf
around the house. ^
Now we see the real reason these historical beauties
kept so young. They spent much time in storing up
these juices. This had another great and beneficial
effect. When the juices of these glands—all of them, in
whole or part—are being used up more rapidly than
they can be replaced, the nervous system gets out, of
order. Then comes fretfulness, temper; the blood
stream does not get its pure stimulant. Now follow dis
turbances in blood pressure, and the whole organization
is upset. But these beauties of old and those ot tn»
present did and do not allow any of these effects, so
their tempers were always poised, anger never beyond
control, blood pressure normal, brain cells undisturbed;
so on their way they went smiling ever youthful.
Every woman can do the same. Control of temper
means keeping the Juices of youth; plenty of rest means
the thyroid will throw out the materials of beauty day
after day for many years. lotting nature smile upon
you instead of getting out of patience and • trying to
hurry her will keep her in a happy mood, which she will
push out through your whole body.
Any pressure upon the neck, such as tight collars,
affects the glands and either stops them from sending
their valuable elements Into the
blood, or in the end dries them up.
A great many women become old
before their time because in their
girlhood the thymus gland was over-
stimulated and dried up before the
thyroid was fully developed. Under
such conditions there was not a suf
ficiently prolonged girlhood and too
early womanhood. Of course, under
such a false development the thyroid
gland gave out early in life, and at
thirty-five or forty years of age the
woman is physiologically fifty years
of age. It should fee, and can he,
the other way about——fifty years
of lifd and thirty-five years in func
tional ability.
Girls of ten to sixteen years of
age should play and think as girls.
This allows the llS'mus gland to go
to full maturity and give complete
growth and strength of body and
mind up to the period the thyroid
gland takes hold.
If the girl of thirteen or fifteen
years of age goes to night dances,
wears tight corsets, high heels and
other words, if she tries to be a
young woman in acts, thoughts and appearance while
her inner juices are girl's juices, there is a fight
between her too early woman’s brain and her girl
ish functions. The brain stimulation generally wins.
This means that girlish glands dry up before
their allotted time and later on so do woman's
glands.
If you will remain a girl as long as possible you will
remain a young woman late in life. Care of the things
1 have told you, patience, content, sweet temper and
rest will do the trick.
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A N entirely new device, invented
by a Dutch scientist, is likely
to do away with the cumber
some receiver and transmitter we
now have to u,-e when telephoning.
It is possible that the telephone con
nection of the future will be merely
a tiny hole in the wall, not larger
CHEST PROTECTORS ON YOUR FEET Will Save Doctors’ Bills
T T is a serious mistake to think the com
mon cold is a trifle. Even what Is often
laughed at as a 'Summer cold’’ may lead
to many grave diseases, especially to pneu
monia and consumption.
How shall we avoid taking cold? To begin
with lead the physiological life, is the advice
of a well-know physician. Get up In good
time; bathe well; eat three meals of whole
some food a day, and don't hurry about it.
Be in the fresh air ail the tithe, day and
night; and get In tl sunshine whenever
you can, and it isn't too hot. Be very mod
erate in the use of alcohol and tobacco; bet
ter by far have nothing to do with them what
ever. Better not smoke until you are twen-
t.v one, and then maybe you won’t care to.
Tea, the tipple of women, should be taken
always freshly made, and In moderation.
Avoid dusty, damp or foul air; work Only
in rooms'well-ventilated. Go to bed early
and sleep at least eight hours. Wear suit
able underclothes all the year around—thick
in the Winter, thin in the Summer. The
night wear must, of course, be changed from
that of the day. Wear wooleiy socks In bed
if the fdfet are cold.
Wear always warm footw'ear and stout,
watertight shoes. Never get your feet wet.
Many women won’t wear rubbers or "arc
tics”; blit all women should; and then they
won’t so often be going to doctors about
pains In the back. "Put your chest pro
tector on your feet," Is excellent advice.
Cover your chest well, of course, but not
enough to Impede breathing, upon which
good health depends.
Sleeps with the windows open. However,
avoid draughts; this can be done by means
of screens or a olothes home with a blanket
over it
Workers out of doors can digest coarser
food than clerks, so the latter have*to take
exercise in the open air as much as possible.
Pure air means. the greatest possible amount
of oxygen, and this means pure blood; and
pure blood means a strong, virile constitu
tion. capable of withstanding colds.
Both overeating and eating too much sugar
and starches are habits tending to colds. A
great many little children are constantly hav
ing colds in their noses; this is oftentimes
not because they don’t get enough to eat, but
because they eat things not fit for children to
eat.
Colds are catching; every now and then
(lie papers tell of epidemics of colds. Then
look out for the man who talks thick, and
who is constantly sneezing, blowing his nos»
and making a general nuisance of himself.
Sore throats should be treated until they are
cured. Adenoids and inflamed tonsils are a
fruitful soil for the catarrh germs; in chil
dren especially they ought to be removed.
Always breathe through the nose; there
are some people who think the mouth is made
for breathing, but they are misguided. The
inside of the nose has spaces where the air
is warmed before it is breathed into the
lungs.
Never eat without having first washed the
hands and getting rid of possible influenza
£>r pneumonia germs.
If you are afraid a cold is coming on
douche your nose by means of a “nose cup,”
to be got in a drug store, and then gargle
your mouth with the safiie solution—a half
teaspoonful of common table salt to a tum
blerful water, as hot as can be borne without
scalding the nose and mouth.
than the point of a pencil in size.
The receiver and transmitter will be
carried in one’s pocket, for in the
new invention they are no larger than
a w-atch.
The thermaphone, as Us inventor
has named it, is much more sensitive
than the usual telephone receiver, so
that messages can be heard very
much more clearly. A cross-conti
nent phone message, with perfect re
lays, can he heard as easily with a
thermaphone as though the speaker
were in the next room. There is
none of the "buzzing” sound that oc
casionally makes telephoning an
noying.
Moreover, It is much more sHent.
No one can hear the message except
the person reveiving it.
The transmitter is so sensitive,
also, that there Is no need to speak
loudly. The lower the voice the more
clearly can it be heard. This would
enable several telephones to be In
use at the same time in a business
office without creating a babel of
sound.
Why It Is That REAL DIAMONDS NEVER FADE
O NLY the expert can tell an imitation diamond from
a real stone when the imitation is new, but after
the fake stone has been worn for a little time
it soon loses its lustre. It is this which makes a real
diamond valuable. No matter how long it is worn it
Will keep its sparkle almost as well as ever.
The real reason for this is the hardness of the dia
mond. It is not due to any special quality in the stone
How INSECTS Are Adding to WAR’S HORRORS
B Y no means all the horror of war is caused -by
shot and shell. A large part of it la due to insect
pests, which work incredible havoc among both
fighters and non-combatants.
The unsanitary conditions under which war forces
millions of men to live bring forth myriads of lice,
ticita. fleas, flies and other unpleasant enemies of man.
These Insect pests cause the most excruciating torture
to the human beings whom they infest, and some of
them often scatter.death as surely as well-aimed bullets.
How insects can add to war’s horrors Is shown by
the epidemic of typhus which is now sweeping through
Serbia and claiming victims by the thousand.
This disease is spread by the body louse. The germs
of typhus develop In this insect in some way not yet
clearly understood by science. They find their way
Into a man’s system when, In his endeavor to alleviate
the irritation caused by the presence of the insect, he
scratches his skin
Every time he does this he crushes one or more of
the unwelcome insects and the germs are rubbed Into
his irritated skin, where they promptly develop typhus.
Relapsing fever is another disease which is spread
by body lice. Troops operating in Africa know how
hard it is to keep from rubbing their eyes to remove
bits of sand or dust. It was discovered by army sur
geons many years ago thaff when a soldier rubs his eyes
with a finger soiled with a crushed louse he usually
becomes Infected with relapsing fever.
Even if troops escape disease their efficiency is
seriously impaired by the discomfort they suffer from
these insect pests.
Fleas also do their full share to make war horrible.
The dreaded plague is spread by Infected rat fleas,
which leave their natural host and pass to man
In Belgium. Egypt and other countries where war is
now raging the blood-sucking leeches have to be care
fully guarded against.
These pests are usually found in drinking water.
Unless the water in which they are present is strained
or filtered and also boiled before using, they may be the
cause of very distressing and dangerous diseases of the
throat And lungs.
itself, except Its transparency and its hardnesB.
The sparkle of a diamond depends on the sharpness
of the edges and the points of its facets. When the
light falls on one of these it is reflected to another
facet, lying at a different angle and is refracted again,
and so on, many times. Each time the light is reflected
it gives a point of brilliance, and, in most instances,
splits up the light so that the red and blue rays are
seen.
The imitation stone, to begin with, seldom has as
many facets as a diamond. But, even if it had. ,tbe
sharpness of these edges would wear off. Even expo
sure to the air will wear away any substance that is not
extremely hard. And Just as soon as there is any dull
ing of the edges of a facet, so soon there Is a dimming
of the brilliance of the stone.
What Makes CLOTH WEAR WELL
A Greatly Enlarged Photograph of
the Insect Which Is Spreading
Typhus In Europe.
E VERY one—in this country, at
least—wears clothes. They
have to. Consequently every
one is more or less interested in the
question of clothes.
It Is not so easy to know good
cloth as it seems. Many people, de
pending on texture, feel, weave and
60 forth, think that they are Judges
of cloth. And when, after buying
what they believe to be a good piece
of cloth it does not wear well they
are greatly surprised.
The durability of cloth depends
largely upon the length of the in
dividual fibers. If the fibers are long
and curling they form a close and
strong weave. The cloth does not
crack or wear out at the seams or
folds, because of the length of fiber,
nor does it rub as easily by surface
wear, because it is more springy or
elastic. Short fibers, on the other
hand, have much l^ss binding quality,
because they do not intertwine.
The difference between two suits
or dresses in “keeping their shape"
is largely due t« this same thing. A
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It is evident that there would be little profit in imi
tation stones if they were as hard as diamonds, for then
they would be as much trouble to cut as diamonds are,
and. indeed, would have to be ground down by diamond
dust.
A $3 imitation stone has just as much sparkle, looks
just as well and answers every purpose of a $300 stone,
for a time. But. no matter how carefully it be handled
a year or two will see a wearing away of the edges ol
the facets and a general lowering of its brilliancy
Then, according to one’s pocketbook, one can buy an
other $3 stone or a $300 stone.
Of course, one is an investment and the other an ex
travagance, but, aside from that, $30 worth of imitation
gems spread over a lifetime will work Just as well as
five times that much money put into the real gem.
really first-class cloth, properly made
and fitted, hardly ever requires press
ing. It is elastic, and if it hung
up, after having been worn for a day
or two, it will go right back into
shape. Ttie constant sending of
trousers to the tailor to have a
“crease" put in, is a sign that the
cloth was not made of long fibers.
If you want your suits or dresses
to wear well and to look well, first
make sure than the cloth is woven
from long fibers.
CARRY YOUR PHONE in Your POCKET
The principle of the thermaphone
is simple. The magnet and dia
phragm of the present telephone are
replaced by a loop of exceedingly
fine platinum wire within a small
aluminum cover pierced with minute
holes. Currents passing through the
wire cause changes In temperature,
alternating from host to cold with
great rapidity. The consequent ex
pansions and contractions of the sur
rounding air become evident as
sound.
There is little to get out of order,
and the cost of manufacture Is less
than half a dollar.
The thermaphone is also good for
the receiving of wireless messages,
and with one of these In his pocket,
or, rather, in his ear, a man might
walk along the street and hear con
stantly some of the more powerful
wireless messages from stations in
tiie neighborhood.
'This, of course, would apply only
to those of a wave-length to which
(he thermaphdhe has been tuned.
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