This lesson is written especially for people who have passed the age of thirty-five and have begun to show signs of approaching age; people who have begun to lose strength and vigor and those who feel that they have lost their grasp on youth. To them I offer hope and a promise that they can, if they will, regain beauty of form and feature, and the elasticity and buoyancy of youth, that they can again come into possession of all the powers and faculties which were enjoyed in youth.

To be young again after once having tasted of the inconveniences of age, is a pleasure that has no equal.

It is truly said that to really appreciate health and vigor, we must first lose it. How many people are there who do not look back with regret upon the past and wish that they had understood the priceless treasure they possessed in youth. How many would like to go back to youthful health and vigor? Almost every man and woman who has lost it.

The message I bring is that they can all regain to a large degree the youth and pleasures they believe to be lost. The body has grown old through ignorance of the laws of repair and renewal. Once this secret is fully understood and adhered to the advance of age will be checked and a gradual return to youth commence.

As I have said before the signs of age, such as stiffness of the cords, joints and muscles, the ever hardening lines in the skin of the face and hands, the loss of color of the hair, etc., is caused by a deposit of calcareous matter in the arteries. Up to the age of thirty-five a certain amount of this matter is necessary to supply growth to the bones of the body. By thirty-five and often earlier the growth is completed and thereafter only enough matter to keep up the daily repair, is needed. Any quantity taken in excess of this re quirement is deposited in the arteries, hardening them and causing a general stiffness. When people feel this sign of age they think they are too old to exercise, when in reality they need more exercise than ever before.

The secret of regaining youth lies in removing the accumulated calcareous matter which is the cause of "old age" and in preventing further deposits. This can positively be done if you will patiently follow the instructions given in these lessons and especially those given in this particular lesson.

As the body is hourly being destroyed and rebuilt, you are given the opportunity to make changes which of course could not be made if the body was not in a constant state of change. It is for you by the use of correct methods to tear down the undesirable parts and rebuild them with new and desirable material.

We will first consider the best means of dissolving the accumulated cause of old age. Of all know solvents there are none to equal pure water and olive oil. I referred to the value of drinking pure water in the lesson on "What to Eat," but in this lesson I wish to impress upon you the importance of drinking plenty of pure water every day, especially if you have passed the age of thirty-five. Water should be drank between meals, on rising in the morning and just before retiring at night. Water taken with the meals dilutes the digestive juices of the stomach and retards its work. Water taken between meals acts as a solvent of undigested matter and assists in its elimination from the system.

Water to fulfill its purpose must be pure. There are only two ways in which pure water can be had. Pure water is the most essential requisite for the health, that enters into the system. Impure food is shunned like poison, yet millions of people are every day drinking impure water, taking into their systems water from wells, cisterns, lakes and rivers which not only holds in solution calcareous and mineral salts, so conducive to senility and old age but in thousands of cases deadly microbes and germs of malignant disease.

The purest water in Nature is rain water, but this cannot be had in cities for in cleansing the atmosphere from dust, dirt, smoke and poisonous gases and washing off unclean roofs, it becomes contaminated. The purest spring water contains from six to fifty grains of mineral matter per gallon.

Many people think that by boiling water they purify it. This is a mistake. The germs of disease are partially killed but the decaying carcasses of the germs remain to be taken into the system. Water cannot be purified by filtering it.

The microscope reveals a menagerie of life in a drop of water. The medical experts tell us that the ordinary germs are not harmful, yet these same experts admit that were water free from such matter, old age or the breaking down of the organs could not occur. Millions of calcareous carcasses are deposited in the blood every hour. They cause the blood vessels, nerves, tissues, fibers, brain and the various organs to ossify, harden, refuse to act, break down and thus limit life.

The only way to be sure of getting pure water is to drink distilled water. Distilled water is condensed steam. Water when heated to the boiling point passes off in steam free from all impurities. If this steam is condensed and collected we have distilled water.

Old age or ossification results largely from ignorance in drinking impure water. There are three kinds of food which enter the system daily; solids, distilled liquids and raw liquids. All solids contain calcareous or old age materials. The distilled liquids of juicy fruits are not only free from old age matter but dis solve and draw off as much calcareous substances as the solid food deposits.

Fruits and solid foods would, therefore, ward off decrepitude and age were it not for the raw water that is drank. As Nature distills the water in her fruits, man should take the lesson and drink only distilled water. It is not only free from calcareous or old age matter but like juicy fruits, will dissolve and carry off all such matter contained in solid food.

The combination of lime held in solution in ordinary drinking water, when taken into the stomach, is soon distributed throughout the system and deposited in all the tissues, exactly as it is precipitated and forms incrustations on the bottoms of kettles in which water is boiled. The result is general hardening and in some organs and tissues complete ossification. The bones become brittle, the joints and muscles stiff and rheumatic, gravel and stones form in the bladder, the kidneys, liver, heart, nerves and brain become indurated and sluggish in their action, all the bodily functions are impaired, the nerves weaken, the mind loses its vigor, the memory fails, senility and death creep on.