THE KEY TO YOUTH

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 9

THE KEY TO YOUTH

PHYSICIAN’S ADVICE TO WOMEN The effect of age on women’s looks was discussed by Sir Thomas Oliver. Professor of Medicine. University of Durham, in his presidential address to the Institute of Hygiene, London. He said: A man or a woman is as old as he or she feels, and not as he or she looks. It has been said that a woman who conceals her age is a benefactor to her sex, for through her determination to remain young she has to set up a superior standard of health, she herself being aware of the fact that by shortening her hair and adopting modern methods of dress she has, so far as personal appearance is concerned, temporarily modified the \’isible marks of time. Age is not, however, a matter of years, but of changes in the tissues, so that so long as woman does her best to keep her mind and body young, she is young. Probably the middle period of life leaves more outward signs upon women than men. Fortunately the change is not universal, for many women are just as handsome, attractive, goodlooking and of well-proportioned figure as in the years before the middle period of life,, and those much-admired qualities are carried on into old age when the women retain those attributes which charm all who are brought into contact with them. The amount of sleep required is largely a personal and a family matter. Some people require more sleep than others, while others, again, imagine they need more sleep than is necessary. If by the time a man or woman has reached middle age he or she has not become his or her own physician as regards food, then no lesson has been learnt from the experience of previous years. Less food, rather than more-, is safer for most people when they are graduating toward the seventies.