New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 27

Fanny Ward, a stage beauty of forty years ago, is an outstanding ex- ample of the possibility '\ Obedience to the Laws of Nature and Wonders of Modern Surgery 8\ Can Stretch Period of &\ of prolonging youth, for although she is sixty-four years old and a grandmother she looks like a young ‘woman HAT is it that human beings W desire above all else? To that question many would answeér, “money”; others would reply, “fame” and “power”; less ambitious L persons might sensibly say, “health” and “happiness.” These things are supposed-to be the A shining goals toward which, the great q majority of intelligent people strive. But more than any of .these things, people desire youth, for without that exuberance of spirit and vitality pf; body that make of life a thrilliR Giyedture, existence is bound to be sorfiething of .. bore. More than the loss of money or friends or fame, people fear the passing of youth. After a man or a woman starts the increasingly tiresome journey down “the other side of the hill” the zest of life gradually disappears and neither gold nor fame can bring it back. The urge to-day is to keep young and the coming of senility is regarded as something of a tragedy. Especially to women is old age and even middle age a great calamity. For no matter what career a woman chooses, the home, the stage, business or a pro- fession, old age handicaps her. Recently one of the largest employ- ment agencies for women in the coun- try, an agency that fills hundreds of positions a day, warned applicants, “Do not come to us if you are past thirty years of age. We can do nothing for you.” The head of this agency said in ex- planation: “A woman past thirty is no longer efficient in an office. No em- ployer wants her. Executives seeking new employees are usually unwilling to take women past twenty-three, and so it would be unprofitable for us to reg- ister any women who have reached the advanced age of thirty. For thirty in the business world is old for a woman, and she should not expect to hold an ordinary jnb after that.” She informs that employers are de- manding more and more youthful em- ployees. At one time, she says, a woman of thirty could hope to get a good job, but to-day the age limit is getting steadily lower and lower. If middle-aged women or even women approaching middle age have a hard time in the business world, they have a far harder time on the stage. If, wien they reach thirty, they have not become stars, there is very little oppor- tunity for them anywhere, for even the chorus is closed to women whose mus- cles are beginning to lose the elasticity of youth. A business woman is often able to work up to a position of such importance that there is little danger of her being ousted by a younger woman, but the actress is in a far worse predicament as she depends almost entirely upon her beauty for her livelihood. In only a few cases have women of middle age survived in the show business. But actresses and business women are not the only ones to find tragedy in old age. The divorce courts every day reveal the story of the gray-haired woman who has lost the love of her husband to a prettier and yourger woman. Once people were rather content to grow old, but to- day every one fights it and science announces, from time to time, new discoveries as a result of untiring efforts to find a way of checking the greatest bogey of mankind. The world, at the present time,. i8 a very hard place placidly to grow old in. "Mid- dle-aged women complain that the shops carry only “flapper” clothing and that it is almost imposgible to find gowns and hats suitable for a dignified, gray-haired woman. . No longer do all grand- mothers like to sit home and knit, nor do many grand- fathers care to spend every evening = listen- ing to the radio. The slender- waisted, bobbed - haired woman is hard- ly the accepted picture of a grandpazent and g0, psycho- logically at least, the aver- age middle-aged person to-day has begun to re- bel against the too early loss of the feelings and appearance of 7outh. Science has helped out. Al- ready there are many ways, en- dorsed by lead- ing physicians, to aid in the re- Jjuvenation of the middle- aged. Some of the foremost physicians in this move- ment are of the opinion that it will soon be possible to laugh at the approach of this goblin of old age for many a yeat. “Before modern sclentists began seri- ously to study the causes of aging,” says Dr. Cgzl Rashus, an officer of the United States Publle Health Service who has recently published a book entitled “Out- witting Middle Age,” almost every, one, even those having scientific training, ac- cepted without thought or question the brutal fact that age must come at about the height of one’s learning and expe- rience. A wasteful and stupid arrange- ment, it seemed, to put bodies out of business just about the time when minds had become best trained.” In his discussion of the bugbear of senility Dr. Ramus points out that many people have counted it hardly worth while to acquire knowledge and develop efficiency when depreciation -of all one’s Youth Many Y ears, Declare Experts Who Are Studying Causes of Senility Above—Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the famous surgeon, who says surgery took twenty years off his age and ex- tended his useful- ness Austrian wann1s € 273 Two photographs of the late Theodore Roosevelt, graphi- cally showing how rapidly the burdens of civil life robbed him of the youth sci- ence is working to prolong faculties are bound to come so soon. But Dr. Ramus believes that there is a remedy for the too early arrival of old age and that in time people will be able to snap their fingers at the nightmare of getting old. He says: “My own observation is that the solu- tion of the problem lies only in nature’s principal methods of inducing health— sunlight, pure air, pure water, nourish- ing food, cleanliness and exercise.” As pne of the best remedies against the approach of the first signs of old age, Dr. Ramus believes that physical exercises will produce the greatest re- sults. In his opinion they will gctually restore youth and vitality. Although he favors surgery in many Above—Edna Wallace Hopper, ‘“the Eternal Flapper,” who turned to science as a means of preserving her youth. She is more than sixty years old and the pic- ture of young woman- heod instances to aid in rejuvena- tion, he believes that physi- cal exercises as a preventa- tive of crows’ feet and sag- ging muscles will actually accomplish miracies. “It should be clearly real- ized,” he writes, “that youth and youthfdl appearance are fundamentally the same and depend physically on perfect circulation. “In sum, aging is not so0 much the matter of years as of defective efrculation. Sane physical exercise and simple food maintain good eirculation That which maintains good cireulation con- serves youth, To a very large extent then a true elixir of life is thus available to cver— one. It is wot un- usual to find men and women of forty without a single gray hair. In other families gray hair begins to show before the twentieth birth- day has been passed, and by the time these people have reached the age of thirty they are decidedly “oldish.” Under certain ‘circum- stance Dr. Ramus points out that ihe rate of aging is often very rapid. For instance, it is u well known fact that many people’s hair has become white over night due to excessive worry and an extreme nervous condition. Likewise we often see a rapid in- crease in the rate of aging in the faces of many men in public life. Under the strain of weighty matters these men appear to age ten to twenty years in perhaps a period of four years. Two outstanding examples of this are Roosevelt and Wilson. Both these men looked, at the time they took office, their normal age. But after serving in Copyright, 19%6, by Johnson Features, ise T the Presidential chair age crept on them rapidly until there was a very marked change in their countenances. But aside from the simple remedy of physical exercise as a combatant of the bugaboo of age, there are the inventions of science that claim {o restore not only the vigor but the appearance of youth. Two women who have avafled them- selves of the latest scientific treatments for rejuvenation and who furnish the best examples of its potent effect are the celebrated Fanny Ward and Edna Wal- lace Hopper, known as the “eternal flappers.”” Both of these women have passed sixty and both have the figures and animation of debutantes. Miss Ward attributes her return to youth to the famous Steinach method of rejuvenation, Forty years ago she was a famous actress and the people who remember her then say that she looks even younger now although she is a grandmother and proudly boasts of the fact that she has passed her sixty-fourth birthday. Regarding getting old, she says: “A woman suffers more over the creeping on of old age than over anything else. Youth attracts men and every woman wants to be admired and loved.” Edna Wallace Hopper claims to be . sixty-two years old, although her friends declare that she could easily pass for thirty-five. Miss Hopper for ygars has been intercsted in science's latest dis- coveries of rejuvenation. In her opinion it is an easy task to remain young, but it is & terrible task to recover youth when once you have surrendered to age. Women, she says, do not pay enough attention to diet and exercise. Like Dr. Ramus she has great faith in the simple remedies for preserving the blush and glow of youth. e.Saus Science: Woodrow Wilson, America’s war- time President, was, in his prime, a victim of old age, as these pho- tographs, taken but a few years apart forciby show Of late Miss Hopper has advocated a blood transfusion from a young to an old person as the newest and safest method of beating the years. -There are many famous surgeons to- day who give their entire time to this new science that Dr. Ramus terms “se- nescence.” One of the latest and most famous miracles wrought by one of these physicians was the rejuvenation of Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the bloodless surgeon, Dr. Lorenz came to America from Austria about five years ago. A great many notable people met the famous surgeon at the time and went away re- marking that it was too bad for the sake of medicine and science that Dr. Lorenz was 80 rapidly aging. He seemed fading in strength and vitality. Recently the doctor came to America again. When the boat docked in New York he was standing on deck a hale and hearty man with red checks and spar- kling eyes. “Was this the same Dr. Lorenz?” was the question on every one’s lips. Finally some one remarked to the smiling surgeon that he was looking re- markably well. Then the secret was ex- ploded. Dr. Lorenz assured his friends that he was remarkably well because he was twenty years younger. He said: “When I was sixty-seven I was an old man. I felt age creeping over me and I felt that my work on earth’ wasn't done yet. So I went to Dr. Victor Blum and five months later I felt forty again. It was the Steinach operation. “I am well and very healthy. I feel as though I have a whole lifetime be- fore me. If it hadn’t been for that operation I never would have been able to have made another trip to the United States.” Dr. Lorenz then advised all his friends who were past sixty and were show- ing signs of age to have the gland operation. He believes that every one ah?uld retard old age by appealing to science. D \ \J ON \