Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 13, 1927, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Manitoba free press Winnipeg. Wednesday july 13, 1927 do we live longer now one Hundred years ago men and women were accounted old at 40 or 50, but now the Man in the fifties faces Long Prospect of continued usefulness. By Royal s. Copeland . Recently i had an interesting letter from a Man calling attention to s. Statement i made regarding the Dura Tion of life. He referred to one of my articles in which it was stated that the average life in Washington s time about 30 years while now it is 5fl. It must be admitted that Many current statements about the duration of life Are somewhat misleading. When we speak about the expectation of life we arc referring to the average Chance of a baby born today com pared with the baby born in a different period of the world s history. As a matter of fact the improvement in the expectation of life is due largely to the better care of infants and of per sons in old age. In the Middle groups the Chance of living is not materially greater than it was in the time of George Washington. In Short when we Taft averages we Are considering the whole human fam ily and counting the period from birth to old ape. It is quite probable that in what might be called age group or statesmen there has been Little change in the past Hundred years. My correspondent has Given me cer Tain i have not corroborated them but i assume they Are Correct. He says that the combined Ages of the first seven presidents was 560 years while the combined Ages of the last seven presidents amounted to 452 years. This Means that the first seven presidents averaged 1" years per Man More than the last seven. He refers to the signers of the declaration of Independence and to the Early United states senators who lived just As Long As senators do today. All these suggestions Are Well founded. But it is unfair to judge the race by taking samples from the Comfort Able economic class. The men who were conspicuous in the Early history of this country were largely from Well to do Homes. They came from what May to called the Leisure class. Their surroundings were conducive to Long life. The fact is however that the aver age men of Washington s time and particularly the average women of that period were accounted old at 40 or 56. While they lived simpler lives there was not that attention to the Early stages of disease which has so much to do with the Prospect of continued life and physical usefulness. Answers to health queries will reduce a double Chin and what is considered a Good astringent t May be helpful. Reducing in general would naturally be Best. For further particulars Send a self addressed stamped envelope and repeat your question. Witch Hazel is a Good astringent. Causes my Little five year old daughter to have pains on the top of her head earache and pains on the dlr by Side of her face would be hard to deter mine without a personal examination. Have the child examined by a physician. R causes me to run Over my heels and Quarter of my shoes i ruin a pair of shoes within two weeks. What remedy do you suggest 2. Is Tea helpful or harmful to the nerves. Ans. You probably have fallen Arches. Consult an Ortho Peist. 2. Too much Tea will prove harmful to the nerves. How can a girl attract men Dorothy Dix gives advice to dateless doras what is a poor girl to do who has no attraction for men i get hundreds and hundreds of let ters from Young women who write me that they Are pretty and intelligent that they dress Well and dance Well Are Jolly and amiable and. So Jar As they can see carry just As Good a line of attractions As the other girls of their bets. But the boys flock around these other girls like bees around a Honeypot while they have never a single Date with which to bless themselves. And these forlorn neglected Maidens ask what they shall do in order to make themselves popular the boys. Alas no one can a Riddle their Riddle Lor them for no one has Ever yet been Wise enough to discover what mystery lies at the heart of a woman s a peal to a Man nor has human ingenuity Ever devised any synthetic feminine Charm that will work. You cannot say to a girl if you to be admired by men you must be Beautiful or you must be a Good report or Yoti must be clinging and helpless or you must be vivacious and entertaining or even that you must suffer yourself to be kissed and petted. Por she May be a in any of these things and yet have never a Beau. Or she May fall to qualify in any of these attractions and yet be besieged by the shrieks. Nor does it aval for a girl to study the technique of the popular girl and attempt to adapt it to her own needs. The copycat always Falls Between the stools. The quiet demure Little girl who tries to imitate some Gay and audacious girl who does outrageous things Anc gets away with it Only makes herself Lound and vulgar. The Plain sensible girl who tries to Roll her eyes As some pretty Little Flap per does merely looks As Raldi Cilous As a dying calf. The big girl who tries to snuggle is no More alluring than a love sick elephant. So it All comes Back in the end to the Stark fact that if nature did t endow a woman at birth with what Elinor Blyn Calls she just has t got it. That s All there is to it. And there is nothing she can do about it. She May break her neck trying to please men a and they won t even notice that she is making an Effort to signal them Clown. She May run her feet Oft chasing men and they will always out sprint her. She May feed them and entertain them and Thev will cat her food and dance with some other at her parties. She May make herself everything that men ought to Admire and they won t cast a second glance in her direction. She May fit herself to make an Ideal wife but she will never get a Chance to be one. Let 110 one undervalue the trag Edy it is to a girl to Lack attraction for men. It is hard when she is Young and filled with the Joy of living to be shut out from the pleasures for some mysterious Rea son that you Are powerless to help. You have no lure for the masculine sex. It is bitter hard to sit at Home of an evening bearing your parents company or go out on ghastly twosome with another girl when the other girls have gone on Gay parties with their steadies. Man standing amidst the wreck of ills Hopes and ambitions Ever knows a moment of More acute humiliation than does the girl who is a Wall floor at a Ball and who knows that every Man who dances with her has been coerced into doing it by his Host Ess and that he will drop her the first morn it that he can unload her on some other Man who is trying his Best to Dodge her. Then can the Eirl do whom boys never Date tip of their own Voli Tion a those partners have to be con scripted for her at dances and who character close ups perfect brow Man who i knows herself an undesired addition to any party she wishes herself upon before succumbing to the inevitable she might give herself one More Chance by making a change in her environment. Men Are like sheep where women Are concerned. They follow their Leader. They Admire the girls that other boys Admire. They fight for dates with the girl that All the other chaps Wane to take out. They want to dance with the girl where other Fellows Cut in before they have had half a turn around the room. So it happens that the girl who hath beaux has other beaux Given to her even More abundantly while the girl who hath few has her one poor Little Date taken away from her. Also sometimes the boys at Home Are so familiar with a girl s attractiveness that they Don t realize it. They Are too close to her to get any perspective on her charms. Many a girl who is a social failure at Home is a Success abroad. Many a girl whom the boys on main Street could t see strange men behold with admiration As is witnessed by the number of girls who marry away from Home. If however a girl finds after threshing different water no fish rises to her bait then she saves herself mortification and Wear and tear on soul and body if she just accepts the situation gives up the struggle to attract men and fills her life with other interests. And the world is so full of such a number of things besides dates that no girl nowadays need feel that life is cinders ashes and dust if she in t popular with men. She can concen trate on her career. Any girl who puts As much study and Effort and real heart interest in trying to please a Boss As she does in trying to Vamp some Little cake Ever will find herself shilling zip the ladder of Success at a rate that will amaze her. She can give herself More pleasures and indulgences than any steady is Likely to. Be Able to give her and she can have All the men friends she wants for there Are no women that men like better than the women who have ceased to pursue them. Undoubtedly the girl who yearns to be admired by men will find cold Comfort to be told that Charm is a gift of nature and not to be acquired by Art or study but it is the sad truth. When a woman finds herself in interesting to men the Wisest thing she con do is to interest herself in something else. Dobothy Dix. Copyright by Public Ledger today s Horoscope rather doubtful Are the portents of tills Day As applied to i Kaday con Cerns and attainments in the Ordinary affairs of life. But the excellent office of Venus in Trine aspect with Luna stresses All manner of social artistic Domestic and affectional relations which should flourish and bring much difficult practical situations. Patience and perseverance May bring some re sults but be careful of change Ana shun All Money risk. Also keep Calm Check on the tendencies to turbulence and extravagance. Those whose birthday it is May succeed Best during a trying year by keep ing Calm and patient control of them selves and their workaday affairs avoid Money risks and sudden change Domestic social and affectional affiliation will flourish and prove compensatory. A child born on this Day should have Many excellent social qualities May be popular and accomplished. In other directions it May through per Severance and self control. Household even slices wrap a piece of waxed paper around the knife Blade before Cuttle Butte into squares for serving it Hlll make much neater pieces of butter. A new mop when starting a new mop. Try Brush Ine out the dirt with n whisk Broom after each using. Instead of Shakles it. Your mop will always be clean and Fluffy. In i inline ten runs Tvr los he Uccat in n moist at most Bare. 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