Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-06-27
AVETERAN BENEFACTOR.
His Past Life, Present Plans, and
What He Has to Say Upon a
Subject That AStonish-
ed Him.
(Ne,C York Times. }

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vital Importance. Like all pioneers,
his early efforts were unsuccessful, but
his ability and the value of his work
soon won public confidence, and to-day
there is not village or hamlet in the
coutry that has not been influenced by
DR.. Dio Lewis. When, therefore, it
was learned yesterday that he contem-
plated the establishment of a large
magazine in this city, the fact was
deemed so important that representa-
tive of this paper was commissioned to
see him and ascertain the truth OF the
rumOr.
| DR.. Dio Lewis is 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 living exponent of bis teach
ings, and Notwithstanding the amount
of work he has already done, promises
still greater activity for years to come.
He received the interviewer most
courteously, and in reply to question
said:
| sIt is true I have come to New York
to establish a monthly magazine. l
have come here for the same reason
that went to Boston 25 years ago.
Then Boston was the best platform In
the country from which to speak of ed
ucation. New York has now become
most hospitable etoprogressive thoughts,
and especially so to movements on be-
half of physical training.
II 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 vital
ity, and especially upon the vigor of
our women. My new magazine 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
hygiene"
"Have you not written several books
on the subject ?"
"Yes, nine volumes, and some of
them like 'Our Girls published by the
Harpers, have had an enormous circu-
lation, but the best work of my life |
shall give the world in the new maya
zine. Forty years of skirmishing
ought to conclude with ten years OF
organized warfare"
doctor, what is the occasion of this
new interest in health questions Z"
at has come through suffering,
which seems the only road to self
knowledge. The stomach. heart, kid
neys or liver fall into trouble. happi-
ness is gone, and then people give at
tention to their health"
(Which of these organs is most fire.
quently the victim of our errors Z" ask
ed the Reporter.
"Within the last few years diseases
of the kidneys have greatly multiplied.
When 1 was engaged in practice,
thirty-fve and forty years ago, serious
disease of the kidneys was rare; but
now distressingly frequent and fatal. !"
"To what do you attribute this great
increase of kidney trouble 2"
/ "To the use of stimulating drinks,
f adulterated food and irregular habits
) of life."
doctor, have you any confidence in
the remedy of which we hear so much
nowadays, Warmers Safe Cure 2"
II believe in the ounce ofprevention,
rather than in ton of cure"
. "But have you noticed the remarka-
BILE testimonials of Warmers remedy ~
II have, and confess that they have
puzzled and astonished me. The COM
meDdations of proprietary medicines
usually come from unknown persons
residing in back counties. But | see
in our most reputable newspapers the
), warmest praise of Warmers Safe Cure
from College Professors, respectable
physicians, and other persons of high
intelligence and character. To thrust
such testimony aside may be profession.
al, but it is unmanly. No physician
can forget that valuable additions to
our Materia Medica have sprung from
Just such sources. I was so impress.
ed with this cloud of witnesses that
; purchased some bottles of Warmers
Safe Cure at a neighboring drug store
and analyzed one of them to see if il
: contained anything poisonous. Then
: l took three of the prescribed doses at
once, and found there was nothing in.
. furious in it. / do not hesitate to say
, that if found my kidneys in serious
trouble, l should use this remedy, be.
cause of the hopelessness of all ordinary
!, treatment, and because when hundred
! intelligent and reputable persons unite
? in the statement that a certain remedy
: has cured them of a grave malady,
: choose to believe that they speak the
: truth"
, "But as you may know, my great in.
terest in life lies in prevention. For
forty years | have labored in this field
, One of the phases of my work in New
England was the establishment of the
Ladies' seminary at Lexington, Mass.
Ny aim was to illustrate the possibili.
8 ties in the physical training of girls
/. during their school life. This institu-
tion became before left it, the largest
and most successful Seminary for
young women owned and managed by
one person, in our country. | sat
down to dinner every day with fami
: ly of two hundred persons The re-
: markable results of this muscle train.
: ing among girls, were given in my
paper published in the North american
Reuieao of December, 1882.
Besides, established the Normal
i Institute for Physical Training in
Boston, and for ten years was its Pres.
a ident and Manager DR.. Walter Chan
n ming, DR.. Thomas Hoskins, Professor
Leonard, and others were among its
D teachers, and more than four hundred
e persons took it's diploma and went out
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