Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-07
A VETERAN BENEFACToR.

sculpture with every man.? The fellow that
he cut out.-Harper's Bazaar.
A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.
His Past Life, Present Plans. and What
He Has to Say Upon a Subject
That Astonished Him.
(Nc,p York Timcs3
Nearly forty years ago a 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 or
hamlet in the country that has not been in.
fuenced 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 MS.
certain the truth of the rumor,
Dr. Dio. Lewis is a gentleman of sixty
years and two hundred pounds, with snow
white hair and beard, butprobably the most
perfect picture Of health and vigor in the
metropolis. He is a living exponent of his
teachings, n MISUNDERSTANDING 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:
Iii is true l have come to New York to
come here for the same reason that I 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 Hospital
BILE to progressive thoughts, and especially
SO to movements on behalf of physical
training.
e" have reasont 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 u women. Ny new maya
gin will bear the title sDio Lewis's
Social Science. I hope through it's age
to ~inaugurate a new departure in hy-
giene."
"Have you not written several books on
the subjectw
Yes, 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 I shall give
the world in the new magazine. 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?"
cit 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"
(which of these organs is most frequent
ly the victim of our errors ~ asked the Re-
porter.
"Within the last few wears 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"
"To what do you attribute this great in.
crease OF kidney troubles"
"To the use of stimulating drinks, adul-
terated food andirregular habits of life."
Doctor, have you any confidence in the
remedy of which we hear SO much nova.
days., Warmers Safe Cure?"
81 believe in the ounce Of prevention,
rather b in a ton of cure"
But have you noticed the remarkable
testimonials of Warmers remedy?"
II have, and confess that they nave puz-
zled and astonished me. The commenda-
tions of proprietary medicines usually
come from unknown persons residing in
back counties. But I 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
stefan can forget that valuable additions to
our Materia Med!ca nave sprung from just
such sources. l was SO impressed with
this cloud of witnesses that I purchased
some bottles of Warner's Safe Cure at a
neighboring drug store and analyZed one
of them to see if it contained anything poi
sonous. ThenItook three of the prescribed
doses at once, and found there was nothing
soi,vysiNv,~ sr + 1orek 1o.;<1ko 10 .-r
that if ! found my kidneys in serious
trouble, l shoul use this remedy, because
of the hopelessness Of all ordinary treat
ment, and because when a hundred intelli-
gent n reputable persons unite in the
statement that a certain remedy has cured
them of a grave malady, I choose to be-
lieve that they speak the truth.
But as you may know, my great inter-
est in life lies in prevention. For forty
years I 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 I left it, the
largest and most successful Seminary for
young women, owned and managed by one
person, in our country. I sat down to din
ner every day with a family of two hun
dred persons. The remarkable results Of
this muscle Draining among girls were
given I,ee,ia IN ny Be paper IF Pq pacsmbe IN 7s sse Mort"
"Besides, I established the Normal Insti-
tute for Physical Training in Boston, and
for ten years was it's President and Man
ager. DR.. Walter Charming, DR.. Thomas
Hoskins, Prot. Leonard and others were
among it's teachers, and more than four
hundred persons took it's diploma and went
out into all parts of the land to teach the
new school of gymnastics. And now the
magazine which I lave 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
tnlk. To this end all so.called1earning will
he 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, Inc we shall