The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-07-05
A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.

A VETERAN BENEFACTOR. I
His Past Life, Present Plans, and
What He Has to Say Upon a Sub.
ject That Astonished Him.
New York Times. 49,. S.,
Nearly forty years ago ayoung man, OF
Unusual endowments, began to mould
public opinion Upon subject of vital
Importance. Like all pioneers, his early
efforts were unsuccessful but his ability
and the vaIiie OF his work sooii won pub.
ic confidence, anil to-day there is not q
village or hamlet in the country that has
| aot been influenced by Dt. Dio Lewis:
When, therefore, it WAS learned yestef-
day that he contemplated the establish:
inent of d large magazine in this city; the
fact was deemed SO important that rep.
sentative of this paper was commits.
'ioned to see him aud ascertain the
18th Of the. rtmor. -.
,Dr. Did Laws is a eentleman of sixty
gears and two hundred pounds With
.low7white hair and beard, but probably
he most perfect picture of health and
vigor in the metropolis. He is a living
exponent of his teachings, and nOtwith.
standing the amount Of work he has al
ready done, promises still greater activ-
ity for years to come. He received the
interviewer most courteously, and in re
ply to question said:
ut is true I nave come to New Yorb
20 establish monthly mag azine. :
have come here for the same reason
that l went to Boston rs 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 to progressive thoughts,
and especially so to movements on be-
half of physical training.
~ have reason to know the great and
abiding interest of the American people
in this subject. They have come to re-
alise that the future of our, country
pivots Upon our physical vitality, 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. I hope
through its pages to inaugurate q new de-
parture in hygiene"
'"Have: you not written several books
on the su6iect?'
eyes, nine volumes, and some ofthem
like "Our Girls" published by the ,Har-
pers, have had All enormous circulation,
but the best work of my life, I shall give
the world in the new magazine. Forty
years of skirlnishing ought. to con-
clude with ten years of organized war
fare"
doctor, what is the occasion of this
new interest in health questions?"
ut has come through suffering, which
h1 Il -, ~ ~1~
The stomach, heart, kidneys or liver fall
people give attention to their health"
:, (Which Of these. organs Is most FREE
duehtly the victim Of our err6rs?' asked
the reporter. -.
"Within the last few years diseases Of
the kidneys have greatly multiplied.
When was engaged in practice, thirty
tive and forty years ago, serious disease of
the kidneys was rare; but now distress
ingly freQuentand fatal" -.
"To what do you attribute this great in
crease otkidney troubles?"
''To the use OF discriminating drinks, adul-
terated food and irregular habits Of life."
doctor, have you any confidence in
the remedy of which we hear SO much
nowadays. Warmers Safe Cure?'"
II believe in the ounce of prevention,
faCTer IMAM IN ton OF cure.
''But have you noticed the remarkable
testimonials Of Warners's remedy?"
II have land confess that they have puz-
zled and astonish he'd me. The common
dations of proprietary medicines usually
back counties. But see i'll our most re-
putable Newspapers the warrnest praise
Of Warmers Safe Cure from College Pro-
tessors, respectable physicians, and 9TH
er persons of high intelligence and char
acter. To thrust such testimony aside
may be professional, but it is unmanly.
No physician can forget that valuable ad-
ditions to our Materia. Medica have
sprung from just such sources. l was so
impressed with this cloud of witnesses
that purchased some bottles of Warm
er's Safe Cure at a neighboring drug store,
and analysed one of them to see if it con-
tanned anything poisonous. Then l took
three ofthe prescribed doses at once, and
found there was nothing injurious in it.
do not hesitate to say that if found my
kidneys in serious trouble, should use
this remedy, because Of the hopelessness
of all ordinary treatment, and because
when hundred intelligent and reputa-
bic persons unite in the statement that
a certain remedy has cured them of a
l.
they speak the truth.
'Bu; as you may know, my great lA,-
terest in live 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.
My aim was to illustrate the possibilities
In the physical training Of girls during
their school life: This institution became
before I lef # it, the largest and mo st sue
cessful Seminary for young women own
ed and managed by one person, in our
country. / sat down to dinner every
day with q family of two hundred per:
sons, The remarkable results Of this
muscle training among girls, wore given
in my paper published in the North
American Review Of December, 1882.
Besides, | established the Normal In
stitute for Physical Training in Boston,
and for ten years was it's president and
manager. DR.. Walter Charming, DIR.
Thomas Hoskins, Professor Leonard and
others were among it's teachers, and
more than four hundred persons took
its diploma and went out into all parts
of the land to teach the new schools of
gymnastics. And now the years left to
me I propose to devote to the
magazine which I have come here
to establish. 1t will be the largest
periodical ever devoted to this field of lit
erature, and will present the hundred
and one questions of hygiene with the
simplicity ola child's talk. To this end all
A-called learning will be subordinated.
The magazine will he more or less Illus
trated, and will strive to reach high
place in the confidence and hearts of the
people. Ina few weeks. our first number
will appear, and we shall ,ondly hope for
tia hearty welcome"
The facts above narrated are indeed
most Important. 1t is gratifying to know
that the life long experiences of q
gentleman who stands without peer in
successfully demonstrating the princi-
pies of .hygiene;. whose heart has
always been in sympathy with
the afflicted, and whose brain has
ever been active in planning for their re-
lief, are to be given to the public through
the pages of magazine. And it is spec
tally significant and proof positive Of
rare merit that proprietary medicine,
even with such high standing as War.
ner's Safe Cure is known to have should
be endorsed and recommended by a
Than SO able, SO reputable and of such
national renown as DR.. Dio Lewis.
A Great Master of Style-and
Nothing Else.
There is told the story of q phenome-