The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-06-20
A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.
His Past Life, Present Plans, and What
Re Has to Say Upon subject
That AslOniShCd Him.

Nearly forty years ago q young man, ot
unusual eudowments, began to mould pub
lie opinion upon a subject of vital import
ance Like all pioneers, his early efforts
were unsuccessful, but his ability and the
value of his work soon won public conf
deuce, and to-day there is not a village or
hamlet i'm the country that has not been in
Huenced by DR.. Dio Lewis. When, there
fore, it was learned yesterday that he con-
templated the establishment of large mag
azine in this city, the fact was deemed so
important that a representative of this pa
per was commissioned to see him and as
certain the truth of the rumor.
Dr. DiO Lewis is a gentleman Of sixty
years and weighs two hundred pounds,
with snow-whte hair and beard, but prob
ably the most perfect picture of health and
vigor i'm the metropolis. He is a living
exponent of his teachings, and nUtwith-
standing the amount of work he has al-
ready done, promises still greater activity
for years to come. He received the inter
viewer most courteously, and in reply to
question said
1T is true have come to New York to
establish a monthly magazine / have
come here for the same reason that I went
/ to Boston % years ago. Then Boston was
the best platform in the country from
| which to speak of education New York .
has now become most hospilable to pro- |
gressive 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 yigor Of our women. My new maga-
zine will bear the title 'Dio Lewis's Month
ly,' and be devoted to Sanitary and Social
Science hope through its pages to inau-
gurate q new departure in hygiene"
'Have you not written several books on
d the subject ~
eyes, nine volumes, and some of them
like Our Girls published by the Harpers,
have had an enormous circulation, but the
best work of my life l shall give the world
in the new magazine. Forty years Of sliir-
mishiug ought to conclude with ten years
d of organized warfare"
If Doctor, what is the occasion of this
le new interest in health questions.
3 1t has come through suffering, which
U seems the only road to self knowledge. The
P stomach heart, kidneys or liver fail into
lt trouble, happiness is gone, and then people
give attention to their health"
(Which of these organs is most frequent
8, ly the victim of our errors 2" asked the re-
= porter
"Within the last few years diseases OF
the kidneys have greatly multiplied. When
- 1 was engaged in practice, thirty-hve and
- forty years ago, serious disease of the kid
" neys was rare; but now distressingly fre
y quent and fatal, "
'To what do you attribute this great in
crease of kidney troubles ?"
: ''To the use of stimulating drinks, adul
terated food and irregular habits of life"
doctor, have you any confidence in the
remedy of which we hear so much nova
days, Warmers Safe Cure p"
81 believe in the ounce of prevention
rather than in a ton of cure
''But have you noticed the remarkable
- testimonials of Warmers remedy"
Il 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 L see in our most reputable
% newspapers the warmest praise of Warmers
Safe Cure from College Professors, respect
- able physicians, and other persons of higl
intelligence and character. To thrust such
testimony aside may be professional, but il
rs is unmanly. No physician can forget that
valuable additions to our MdteTiG WediCd
have sprung from just such sources.
was so impressed with this cloud Of wit
nesses that I purchased some bottles OF
Warmers Safe Cure at a neighboring drug
ce store and analysed one Of them to see if il
\. contained anything poisonous. Then
- took three Of the prescribed doses at once
81 and found there was nothing injurious in it.
Ie, I do not hesitate to say that if 1 found my
kidneys in Esrious trouble, I should use
this remedy, because Gf the hOpelessness OF
all ordinary treatment, and b5cGuge WheI
I' a hundred intelligent and reputable per
sons unite in the statement that certain
remedy has cured them of a grave malady
u / choose to believe that they speak the
~ truth"
Is 'But as you lag know, my great inter
est in life lies in prsF5ntiQp For forty
years have labored in this field. Ln6 o.
the phases of my work in New England
Of was the establishment Of the Ladies' Sem
mary at Lexington, Mass My aim was t
illustrate the possibilities in the physica
training of girls during their school life
" This instit4tiGn became before left it, tn,
largest and most Epceegsful Seminary fol
young women owned and elRnagGd by one
- person, in our country. / sat down TO din
II. ner every day with family of two hun
dred persons. The remarkable results o
this muscle training among girls, wert
Il. given in my paper published in the Nortl
n American Review of December, 1882"
"Besidas I established the Normal ms
- titute for Physical Training in Boston, anC
for ten years was its President end Mana
ger. Dr. Walter Charming, Dr. Thomas
HosIins, Professor Leonard, and otherl
were among its teachers, and more thar
four hundred persons took its diploma and
y went CEi into all parts Of the land to teacl
o. the new school Of gymnastics. And now
the years left TO me propose to devote tC
- the magazine which I have eOl4o here tc
establish. It will be the largeet peFioqioa
q, 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 so-called learning
will be gubordinated. The magazine will
be more or iesz illustrated, and viii strive
IN to reach a high place ip tha confidence and
hearts of the people. In leW weeks puI
- first number viii appear, and We shall
fondly hope for it a hearty welcome"
The facts above narrated are indeed
most important. 1t is gratifying to know
that the life Long experience of a gentleman
Of who stands without peer in successfully
, ] demonstrating the principles Of hygiene
IT whose heart has always been I'm ngympathy
with the afflicted and whose brain ha5 eye
- been active in planning for their relief, arc
to be given to the public through the pages
of q magazine. And it is specially signif
a cant and proof positive Of rare merit that
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