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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 10 (January 1, 1938.)

The Ageless Age

The Ageless Age.

This is the ageless age of health and beauty—of chesty chaps and athletic Amazons, of evergreen grannies and grappling grandpas. The dietician, the capering calory, the victorious vitamin, the air-minded mind, the sun-soothed body and the spanking spirit of derring-do
“The sergeant-major is the purple patch of physical felicity.”

“The sergeant-major is the purple patch of physical felicity.”

page 51 combine to put Years on the spot and take Age for a ride.

The search for health, the quest for bounding beautitude, goes on apace.

There are too many brains in the world to-day. They are finding out things so fast that the frame can't keep up with them. The gap between mind and muscle, brain and body, has lengthened until life gallops along in short pants, ten jumps behind Invention. Something has to be done to preserve the balance between horse-power and man-power.