Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.
His Past Life. Present Plans. and
What He Has to Say Upon IA
Subject That Astonished
Him,
New York Times.


" efforts were unsuccessful, but his
ability and the value of his work soon
WON public confidence, and to-day there
is not a village OF hamlet in the country
that has not been influenced by DIR. DiO
Lewis. When, therefore, it was learned
yesterday that he contemplated the es-
Enlistment 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 ascertain
the truth of the rumOr.
DR.. bio Lewis is gentleman of sixty
wears and two hundred pounds, with
snOw-white hair and beard, but proba-
bly, the most perfect picture of health
and vigor in the metropolis. He is a
living exponent Of his teachings. 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 a question said:
1T is true [ have come to New York
to establish monthly magazine. I have
come here for the same reason that
went to Boston % years ago. Then BOS-
ton was the best platform in the country
from which to speak of education. New
York has now become most hOspitable
to progressive thoughts, and especially
SO to movements on behalf of physical
training.
4 have reason to know the great and
abiding interests of the American peO-.
pie 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 our women.
Ny new magazine 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 hygiene"
Have you not written several books
on the subject"
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 skirmishing ought to con-
clude with ten years of organized war
fare.
Doctor what is the occasion of this
new interest in health questions:"
1T has come through suffering, which
seems the only road to self knowledge.
The stomach, heart, kidneys OF liver fall
into trouble, happiness is gone, and then
people give attention to their health
(which Of these organs is most fire.
quently the victim of our errOrs:'
asked the Reporter.
'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 kidneys was rare; but now dis
tressingly freuqent and fatal"
ITO what do you attribute this great
increase of kidney troubles?"
ITO the use of stimulating drinks,
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?
Il believe in the ounce of prevention,
rather than in ton of cure"
But have you noticed the remarkable
testimonials of Warmers remedy"
I have, and confess that they have
puzzled and astonished me. The COM
mendations Of proprietary medicines
usually come from unknown persons re-
siding 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
MdterlG MedjcG have sprung from just
| such sources. [ was so impressed with
this cloud of witnesses that I purchased
some bottles of Warmers Safe Cure at a
neighboring drug store, and analysed
one of them to see if it contained any
thing poisonous. Then [ took three Of
the 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 hOpeles8ness
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
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 for
ty 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 be-
came before ] left it. the largest and
most successful Seminary for young wo-
men owned and managed by one person,
in our country. [ sat down to dinner
every day with family of two hundred
persons. The remarkable results of this
muscle training among girls, were given
in my paper published in the North
american RerieaC of December, 1882.
Besides, established the Normal In
stitute for Physical Training in Boston,
and for ten years was its 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 school of gym
nastics. And now the years left to me [
propose to devote to the magazine which
have come here to establish. 1t will be
the largest periodical ever devoted to
this field of literature, and will present
the hundred and one questions Of by
giene with the simplicity Of child's
talk. To this end all so-called learning
will be subordinated. The magazine