Life — April 22, 1915 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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i Btastee anada~ "WO Extremes met and began talk- ing about charity. “We should all be very grateful to our charity organizations,” declared the First Extreme. “They do much good and should be encouraged.” “For my part,” replied the Second Extreme, “I think it is impossible to overestimate the amount of harm they do. They are a blot upon civilization. Nor do I assert it lightly. Organ- ized charity is but another name for organized beggary. We have laws to prevent the needy from begging di- rectly from those who can give. Be- tween the needy and the affluent we insert this third element, this alms- taking and alms-giving machine, a kind of charity middleman.” “What's wrong with that? Isn’t everybody better off as a consequence of it?) The whole thing is run with less friction and more efficiency.” “On the contrary,” disputed the Second Extreme, “everybody is worse off but the middleman, as usual. The rich lose the benefit of coming into direct contact with the needy.” “That is quite beside the question,” retorted the First Extreme. “ Nobody claims that organized charity is for the purpose of helping the rich. It is to help the poor, and that, of course, it does vastly better than if the poor were compelled to shift for themselves in a haphazard manner.” “Notatall. Organized charity makes the problems of the poor more diffi- leit nae HERE is no longer any occasion to go hunting for the Spring of Eternal Youth. What Ponce de Leon failed to discover in his world-famous mis- sion, ages ago, has been brought to light right here in staid, prosaic America, by Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco business man. He can prove it too, right in his own person. At 50 he was partially bald. To-day he has a thick head of hair, although it is white. At 50 his eyes were weak. To-day they are as strong as when he | was a child. At 50 he was a worn-out, broken-down, de- crepit old man. To-day he isin per- fect health, a good deal of an athlete and as youngas the average man of 35. October 27, 1820 A fine day for the hunt, We started at daybreak and gath- ‘at noon for dinner. took with ussome good” V° Old Overholt Rye “Same for 100 yean™ ,_ Todayas of yore Old Overholt is still chosen as the one bever- }] 2&¢ to seasonagood day’s sport. ts uniform purity and flavor gam ake it oe cisice of all crit- men, i bottled in bond. pa Te A. OVERHOLT & Pittabargh Beso All this he has accomplished by some very simple and gentle exercis- | es which he prac- | tices for about ten minutes _ before arising in the morning. Yes, the exercises are taken in bed, peculiar as this may seem. As Mr. Bennett explains, his case was not one of preserving good health, but one of re- juvenating a weak middle-aged body into a robust old one, and he says what he has ac- complished, anyone can accomplish by the application of the same methods, whether | they be young or old—male or female—and so it would seem. All of which puts the Dr. Osler theory to shame. I haven't room in this article to go into a lengthy description of Mr. Bennett's methods for the restoration of youth and the preven- Sanford Bennett at 50 cult. They must beg from an organiza- tion which must be run in such an efficient way as to leave no room for charitable impulses. It gives only upon some elaborate eleemosynary theory which its officials have worked out, and only after very careful examination of the past, present and future worthiness of the applicant. In other words, when organized charity enters the door, charity itself, the greatest of the three graces, flies out of the window.” Ellis O. Jones, tion of old age. All of this he himself tells in Two Extemes on Chaiy n Old Man at Fifty -A Young Manat Seventy The Remarkable Story of Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco Business Man, Who Has Solved the Problem of Prolonging Youth By CARL EASTON WILLIAMS a book which he has written, entitled “Old Age—Its Cause and Prevention.” This book isa complete history of himself and his experi- ences, and contains complete instructions for those who wish to put his health- and youth- building methods to their own use. It is a wonderful book. It is a book that every man and woman whoisdesirous of remaining young after passing the fiftieth, sixtieth, seventieth, and as Mr. Bennett firmly believes, the one hundredth milestone of life, should read. For the purpose of spreading broad- cast the methods of promoting health and longev- ity developed by Mr. Bennett an interesting eight- page booklet which is, in effect, a sum- mary of his system, has been prepared by the publishers of Mr. Bennett's interesting book— the Physical Cul- ture Publishing Company, 2104 Flatiron Building, New York City This booklet they will send free to anyone sufficiently interested to write for it. The grandest thing in the world is Youth, and it is one of the really great hardships of life that “its beauteous morn” should pass so swiftly and give place to old age. Forhavingsolved the problem of prolonging youth during life, the world owesSanford Ben- nett a vote of thanks. Of course there are those who will scoff at the idea, but the really wise men and women among those who hear of Sanford Bennett and his return to youth, will most certainly investigate further, and at least acquire a knowledge of his methods. Sanford Bennett at 72