The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-28
A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.
ais Past Life, Present Plans, and What
He Has to Say Upon a Subject
That Astonished Him.
(Ysu York TXmes.)

Nearly forty years ago q young man, OF
unusual endowments, began to mold pub
lie opinion upon a subject of vital impor-
tance. Like all pioneers, his early efforts
were unsuccessful, but his ability and the
value of his work soon won public conf
dence, and to-day there is not a village OF
hamlet in the country that has not been in
luenced by DR.. Dio Lewis. When, there
fore, it was learned yesterday that he con-
templated the establishment of a large
magazine in this city, the fact was deemed
so important that a representative OF this
paper was commissioned to see him and as
certain the truth of the rumor.
DIR. Dio. Lewis is a gentleman of sixty
years and two hundred pounds, with snow
white hair and beard, but probably the most
perfect picture of health and vigor in the
metropolis. He is a living exponent of his
teachings, and Notwithstanding the amount
of work he has already done, promises still
greater activity for years to come. He re-
ceived the interviewer most courteously,
and in reply to a question said:
1t is true I have come to New York to
establish a monthly magazine. l have
come here for the same reason that l went
to Boston twenty-five years ago. Then
Boston was the best platform in the coun-
try from which to speak of education.
New York has now become most hospita-
BILE to progressive thoughts, and especially
so to movements on behalf of physical
training.
81 have reason to know the great and
abiding interest of the American people
in this subject. They have come to realize
that the future of our country pivots upon
our physical vitality, and especially upon
the vigor of our women. My new maya
zine will bear the title 'Dio Lewis's
Monthly and be devoted to Sanitary and
| Social Science. l hope through its pages
to inaugurate a new departure in n.y.
giene.n
-"Have you not written several books on
the subject?"
like Our Girls,' published by the Har.
pers, have had an enormous circulation,
but the best work of my life I shall give
the world in the new magazine. Forty
years of diminishing ought to conclude
with ten years of organized warfare.o
doctor, what is the occasion of this new
interest in health questions"
at has come through suffering, which
seems the only road to self knowledge. The
stomach, heart, kidneys or liver fall into
trouble, happiness is gone, and then PEG
pie give attention to their health"
(which of these organs is mostfrequent
ly the victim of our errors?" asked the Re
porter.
"Within the last few years diseases Of
the kidneys have greatly multiplied. WheI
I was engaged in practice, t~hirty-five ant
forty years ago, serious disease of the kid
neys was rare; but now distressingly fire.
quent and fatal"
"To what do you attribute this great in
crease of kidney troubles!"
"To the use of stimulating drinks, adul
terated food andirregular habits of ife."
doctor, have you any confidence in thu
remedy of which we hear SO much nova
days, Warmers Safe Cure?"
al believe in the ounce of prevention
rather than in a ton of cure"
"But lave you noticed the remarkabl
testimonials of Warmers remedy?"
81 have, and confess that they have puz
zled and astonished me. The commenda
come from unknown persons residing il
back counties. But l see in our most repu
table newspapers the warmest praise o
Warmers Safe Cure from College Profess
ors, respectable physicians, and other pei
sons of high intelligence and character
To thrust such testimony aside may b
professional, but it is unmanly. No ply
stefan can forget that valuable additions t
our Mdteria Medica have sprung from jus
such sources. l was so impressed wit
this cloud of witnesses that l purchase
some bottles of Warmers Safe Cure at
neighboring drug store and analyzed on
of them to see if it contained anything pc
sonous. Then took three of the prescribe
doses at once, and found there was nothin
injurious in it. l do not hesitate to sa
that if 1 found my kidneys in seriou
trouble, l should use this remedy, becaus
of the hopelessness of all ordinary trea
ment, and because when a hundred INTEL
gent and reputable persons unite In til
statement that a certain remedy has cure
them of a grave malady, l choose to b.
lieve that they speak the truth.
"But as you may know, my great Inter
est in life lies in prevention. For forty
years 1 have labored in this field. One O.
the phases of my work in New England
was the establishment of the Ladies' Sem
mary at Lexington, Mass. My aim YVES tt
illustrate the possibilities in the phyg.ca
training of girls during their schoo! life
This institution became, before l left it, thu
largest and most successful Seminary fo
young women, owned and managed by on,
person, in our country. 1 sat down to din
ner every day with a family of two hun
dred persons. The remarkable results o
this muscle training, among. girls wer,
given in my paper published in the Mort
American Rerie,1 of December, 1882.
besides, l established the Normal Inst
tute for Physical Training in Boston, an
for ten years was its President and Mar
ager. DR.. Walter Claiming, DR.. Thoma
Hoskins, Prof. Leonard and others wer
among its teachers, and more than fou
hundred persons took it's diploma and wen
out into all parts of the land to teach tn
new school of gymnastics. And now tn
magazine which l lave come here to estat
Iish. 1t will be the largest periodical eve
devoted to this field of literature, and vii
present the hundred and one questions c
hygiene Win tne simplicity OF q cnllQ'
talk. To this end all so-called learning wi
be subordinated. The magazine will b
more or less illustrated, and will strive
reach a high place in the confidence an
hearts of the people. In a few weeks on
FIRST number will appear, and we sha
fondly hope for it a hearty welcome"
The facts above narrated are indeed mos
important. 1t is gratifying to know the
the life long experiences of a gentlema
{ who stands without a peer in successful
4 dop,onxfrotinO tho princir1as pf hupiane
whose heart has always been in sympath
with the afflicted, and whose brain has eve
been active in planning for their relief, al
to be given to the public through the page
Of a magazine. And it is specially signit
cant and proof positive of rare merit tn,
4 : proprietary medicine, even with sue
: sigh standing as Warmers Safe Cure
rnown to have, should be indorsed and r
commended by a man SO able, SO reputab
and Of such national renown as DIR. d
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