Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-30
VETERAN BENEEACTOR. y
His Past Life, Present Plans, and What
He Has to Say Upon Suptece
That Astonished Him, gGg
(NeU York Tilnes.1

(Aer YORK IiHesJ
Nearly forty years ago young man, of
unusual endowments, began to mold pub
lie opinion upon a subject OF vital lmpor-
tanee. 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 or
hamlet in the country that has not been in
fluenced by DR.. Dio Lewis. When, there
fore. it was learned yesterday that he con-
templated the establishment of large
magazine in this city, the fact was deemed
so important that representative OF TINS
naner was commissioned to see him and as
certain the truth of the rumor.
Dr. Dio. Lewis is q gentleman OF sixty
wears 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 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 question said:
I" 1t is true | have come to New ork TO.
establish monthly magazine. Il 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 hosplta-
BILE to progressive thoughts, and especially
SO to movements on behalf of physical
training.
al 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 yigor, of our women. My new maga-
zine will bear the title Dio Lewis's
Monthly and be devoted to Sanitary and
Social Science. / hope through its pages
to inaugurate new departure In hy-
giene."
g Have You not written several books on
the subjecty'
Eyes, nine volumes, and some of them
like Our Girls published by the Har-
pers, have had an enormous circulation,
but the best work of my life | shall give
the world in the new magazine. forty
years of skirnlishing ought to conclude
with ten years of organized warfare"
doctor, what is the occasion OF this new
interest in health questions~ $50.
alt 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 peo-
pie give attention to their health."n
n /" Which of these organs is mostfrequent-
ly the victim of our errorS!" asked the Re-
porter. 4EtFF AE. /.
!" Within the last few years diseases of
the kidneys have greatly multiplied. When
| was engaged in practice, thirty-five and
forty years ago, serious disease of the kid
neys was rare; but now distressingly fire.
quent and fatal."
'1To what do you attribute this great In
crease of kidney troubles"- =
'To the use of stimulating drin ), adul-
terated food and irregular habits of life."
g Doctor, have you any confidence in the
remedy of which we hear SO much now-a-
days, Warmers Safe Cure?"
I" / believe in the ounce Of prevention,
rather than in a ton of cure"
"But have Won noticed the remarkable
testimonials of Warmers remedy~ %
81 have, and confess that they have puz-
zled and astonished me. The commenda-
tions of proprietary medicines usually
come from unknown persons residing in
back counties. But see in our most repu-
table newspapers the warmest praise of
Warmers Safe Cure from College Profess
ors, respectable physicians, and other per-
sons of high intelligence and character.
To thrust such testimony aside may be
professional, but it is unmanly. No ply
sician can forget that valuable additions to
our MdteTtd Wedic0 have sprung from just
such sources. was SO impressed 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 it contained anything poi
sonous. Then took three of the prescribed
doses at once, and found there was nothing
injurious in it. / do not hesitate to say
that if I found my kidneys in serious
trouble, l should use this remedy, because
of the hopelessness of all ordinary treat
ment, and because when hundred intelli-
gent and reputable persons unite in the
statement that a certain remedy has cured
them of grave malady, choose to be-
heve that they speak the truth. =.
But as you may know, my great inter-
est in life lies in prevention For forty
years l have labored in this field. One of
the phases of my work in New England
was the establishment of the Ladies' Sem
mary at Lexington Mass. My aim was to
illustrate the possibilities in the physical
training of girls during their school life.
This institution 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 din
ner every day with family of two hun.
dred persons. The remarkable results of
this muscle training among girls We're
given in my paper published in the North
american Revieao of December, 1882.
Besides, established the Normal Insti.
tute for PHYSICAL Training in Boston, and
for ten years was it's President and Man
ager. DR.. Walter Claiming, DR.. Thomas
Hoskins, Prof. Leonard and others were
among its teachers, and more than four
hundred persons look ItS diploma ana Wollb
out into all parts of the land to teach the
new school of gymnastics. And now the
years left to me propose to devote to the
magazine which have come here to estab-
lish. 1t will be the largest periodical ever
devoted to this field of literature, and will
present the hundred and one questions of
hygiene with the simplicity of a child's
talk. To this end all called learning will
be subordinated. The magazine will be-
more or less illustrated, and will strive to
reach a high place in the confidence and
hearts of the people. In a few weeks our
first number will appear, and we shall
fondly hope for it hearty welcome"
The facts above narrated are indeed most
important. 1t is gratifying to know that
the life long experiences of a gentleman
who stands without a peer in successfully
demonstrating the principles of hygiene;
whose heart has always been in sympathy
with the afflicted, and whose brain has ever
been active in planning for their relief, are
to be given to the public through the pages
of a magazine. And it is specially signiff-
cant and proof positive of rare merit that
a proprietary medicine, even with such
high standing as Warmers Safe Cure is
known to have, should be indorsed and re-
commended by man so able, so reputable
and of such national renown as DR.. Dio
Lewis. fa.
WHEN a rich old man dies the gloom is
soon dispelled by the sons raise.-NoTis-
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