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Of Stamina
by
AN
ANALYSIS OF THE
STAYING POWER OF
OUR YOUTH
`HENRY. LONGHURST
LONDON
Highgato say: "Their stamina is
N queue and homestead, not so good as formerly, and they pub and club, the talk are far more prone to minor injuries, It is noticeable that when injuries comes Boonor or later are received recovery takes longer. round to food. Is the shortage Lack of stamina is caused largely of food-real food, that is, not through the present dlot." food substitutes just another
This is elaborated by their sports the same A. H. Fabian who of those grouses so dear to the Soccer for Cambridge: Englishman? Or is it serious Corinthians, Derby County and enough not only to slow down England. present recovery, but also, by
Ills
Impression: The general
its effect on the children, to standard of play is lower...... prejudice our future?
un convinced that, the present diet affects the boys' stamina, especially. the lack of fats, cream and choco- Inte.
The Government say that a lot of people are better off than ever before. And as for the rest they probably ate too Ai Lancing the verdict of Mr much, anyway.
Jagger, the sports master, is: "Tho boys get much more tired during a game than they did before the war. They are not nearly so strong: because of the lack of fats and meat in their diet."
A useful means of compari- son is sport. If this is any criterion, we are falling behind other nations, and the chief reason, according to those who know bast, is lack of stamina.
Lack of meat
Of the 350,000 children in the London County Council schools an
What about the. younger generation? It is said that. they are fitter, healthier, taller official, well qualified to express than ever before.
The people to judge are those who have been in con- tact with children "before and after." To secure their opinions a queationnaire was recently sent out.
an opinion but, like a good civil sorvant, reluctant to be mentioned by name, said: "Physique is good, but in the older children-15, 16, 17-there is o ceriain lack of amina which may be due to tack of meat."
Middlesex County Council: "Phy-
It went to mixed schools, sique is good, but the younger public schools, elementary children tire easily. This may be schools; in fact, to a complete due to the present diet or late hours cross-section of those who have or both." to do with the coming genera
tion.
One of the questions was: "How does their physique com- pare with prewar?". Another was: "Are they subject to more injuries in sport?"
No change
A number of schools detect no change.
Among those who gave re-
much plies like "Very
.the Name,"
.". "No noticeable differ- ence,
were two mixed schools (at Woking and Camberley) and the tough Northern out posts of Sedbergh, Rossall, Stonyhurst (the school with the eight V.C.s) and St. Bees,
good as prewar, but stamina
MU HI say: "Enthusiasm is n
much weaker."
15
the
A master adds: "The standard of games is not so good as prewar for various reasons. Lack of fats and meat in the diet wealdens stamina and physique of the boys."
Mottingham (Kent County Council) report that "stamina does not seem to be so good as before the war," but give no reasons.
Boys who flag
A Tonbridge the sports master C. H. Knott, the cricketer, who once made 372 in a house match when he was there as a boy,
He says: "The boys are not half as strong as they used to be, and they tend to flag in the middle of
game. This is undoubtedly caused by the diet. For the same reason there are more accidents because the bone formation is softer."
up
"Well, I haven't parked it IN the street, have 17"
You
could still be
DECLINE
SETS IN
If the turning-point aga could be delayed... life after 100 would
be normal.
young at 100!
CHAPMAN PINCHER REPORTS A NEW LINE OF INQUIRY
MORTY-ONE of Britain's "Senile decay at 70 and 80 is "The prospects are encouraging. finest scientists have the combined effects of heart, but the problems so ist that I do not banded themselves for liver and other
expect to live long enough myself to disorders.
benefit from the research.
The majority are on the other
Finally, at Winchester, the verdict side. They find a deterioration in the physical powers of postwar is: "Their stamina is weaker, and children. The word "stamina" is they cannot stand to so much used with ominous frequency. as the boys of ten years ago.”
an attack on what I believe to These CAN be prevented-and Birchfields senior elementary Says W. M. Hampton, sports be the most important project our aim is to discover how. school at Manchester, for instance, master: "There has been a deterk ever devised. They are search. reply: "Not so good. Children are oration in the general standardi
"That should prove to you that I
are not in just to escape old age
"The modern attack on the problem myself.” COUNTRY"DEATH VALLEY" getting more milk and free meals, I am sure the shortage of foods ing for a means of extending of old are is to get at the causes Better proof is the fact that Koren-
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the span of human life to a not to rejuvenate people already old
hundred years and beyond. by injections or grafts.”
The reputations of the men involved are the guarantee
J
RAT ROOM
chevsky was in old age research nt 20, with. ploncer Russian geronto- exiled logist Ilys Mechnikov, after from Leningrad, which he still calla..... Petrograd.
* Korenchovsky's experiments have proved that from the moment of birth the size of a rat's heart, liver and
that this is no excursion into BRUSHING past his 'gned portrait
But, as he admitted, 29 is not too Utopia.
of Pavlov. the great Russion Ecientist whose pupil he was, Koren- old to begin worrying about self-· THE other day, the conversa- the entire group into a touring
Such men as Sir Robert, chevsky led me to his thermostated preservation. tion having turried to bad orchestra, and running away with
President of the rat room in the basement. Mrs Mozart, who takes poison be- Robinson, verse, I produced one of my cause she loves favourites.
Gounod, Rossini, Royal Society, Dr Julian Hux- It is by Robert Donizetti, Srauss, Cesar Franck,
("Old rats, like old people, need Bridges, and it is about Nelson Saint-Saens, Bizet, Schubert, Schuley, ace-chemist Sir Jan Hejl warmth," he said, apologising for the
other vital organs relative to the rest hest.) and his column.
mann, Dvorjak, Tchaikovsky. Verdi, bron, and Professor E.. C.
of the body begins to decreuse--a sure Debussy, Grieg, Haydn and Handel. Dodds, cancer expert, are in "See these," he said, pointing to five sign, he believes, of senile decay.
bright-eyed, glossy-coated specimens the team.
. "And we know that in humans de- To Morrow is another drink
playing in a wire cage. "They are terioration of such organs begins not later than the age of 30,” he said,
The gentle, unjealous Shakespeare.
I trow,
fame,
In his country gravé of peacèfut
Must feel exlied from life and glow,
are still healthy.
I have done something to them that
NO DANGER.
In charge of experiments al- unree years old, CRITIC said the other day A that people who quoto Shake ready begun is a 67-year-old "Rats formally get senlla at two sizing up my 33 years. If he thinks of this man with his
speare rarely get the quotation doctor with an international and a half. These warrior claim,
right. That cannot be såld of me. reputation Vladimir Koren- staves off senility. Who looketh on London as if 'twere in the old days, when ordering chovsky, ex-Russian professor,
his own
drinks for Messrs. George, Edwin now head of Britain's first "What works with the rats should TO alone, Sailing the sky, with one arm
As he standeth in stone, aloft and and Larry Morrow, I used to say Gerontology (study of old age). Work with a man. But we must do cheer me he showed me results
one vyc.
"Music Calling"
to the barman, when he brought and the drinks: "To Morrow, and to Unit.
Morrow, and to Morrow."
Sheer apathy
I do not buy a new fur coat, to go with every dress..
(Miss Rita Hayworth.) -
+
AD
though sho
ENCOURAGEMENT
-
of recent experiments in which, thousands more experiments before with his dark-haired assistant Dr we can think of experimenting with Vern Jones, he has managed to stave humans."
off weight-loss of the heart and liver Some of these tests are already in in rats. process in Britain and abroad.
Kortnchevsky and his fellow ger- OFTEN wonder whether the
American
ontologists, while stressing the mag- Almstars who bre
Scientists at Reading University, nitude of the problems involved, be- IN his laboratory at Oxford called upon to pretend to be great
University the doctor white are studying the ageing effects of lieve large-sonle research could in- composers or violinists or pianists
coated, pince-nezed, sketched are about to begin a study of aged to a century.
rera attacks on pigs. Two professors crease everyone's expectation of life ever see the joke. I have up my THAT sounds sleeve a life story of Beethoven, in were losing her nerve, as the out the plan of attack and human brains. In America experi which Mr Alan Ladd plays nearly young man aid of the female showed mo the encouraging ments involving old people have "And, as well as adding years to all Chopin's works, with Brahms coehler who refused to let him results of his first experiments.
already begun.
ilfe, we want to add life to years," he Fred MacMurray), and (Mr
and Wagner withdraw his overdraft.
girl
says, "We must attack the problem in "Old age as we know it is tornationally (Mr Clark Gable) looking on, and who use the same fur coat for two offering advice: They all love Mis dresses is slipping back, and will not a natural process. To be says Korenchevsky. To this end he as many sociologists at Britain's in
to get quick results." The doctor is not nearly so alarmed Mozart (Miss Betty Grable), who not be mobbed for long. Remember old before 100 is to be a vic has lately travelled to Switzerland. creasing old-age population. There refuses to marry any of them for how the pulley people suddenly tim of disease," he said, gazing other countries successfully inducing lot of old people so long as they are France. Denmark, Sweden und is no danger, he argues, in having a fear they may interfere with her dropped (like a red-hot coal) the career-she is George Sand. Berlioz film star who used the same, swim at the gaudy Ikon nailed to the scientists to link up with the British fit enough to ups for the public good finally settles the matter by, forming ming-pool twice.
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