The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-06-22
A Veteran BenefaCtor.


NeaTlYslOrty years ago young 'hali,
of unusual endowments, began TO mould
public opinion upon sub feet of vital
Importance Like all pioneers. his
early efforts were unsuccessful, but his
ability and the value of his work soon
won public confidence, and to-day there
is not village or hamlet in the country
that has not been influenced by Dr. Dio
Lewis, When, therefore. il was learn
ed yesterday that he contemplated the
establishment of large magazine in
this city, the fact was deemed so impor-
tant that n representative of this paper
was commissioned to see him and as
certain the truth of the rumor.
DR.. Dio Lewis is gentleman of six
ty years aud weighs two hundred
pounds. with snowy 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.
lie received the interviewer most court
eously, and in reply to question
said
at is true l have come to New York
to establish amonthly magazine. | have
come here for the same reason that |
went to Boston 25 years ago Then
Boston was the best platform III the
country from whiohto speak of educa
tion. New York has now become most
hospitable TO progressive thoughts, and
especially so to movements on behalf
of physical training.
| have reason to know the great and
abiding interest 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.
My new magazine will bear the title
'Dio Lewiss Monthly, and be devoted
to Sanitary and Social Science. | hope
through its pages to inaugurate new
departure in hygiene
slave you not written several books
on the subject 2
"Yes, nine volumes, and some of
them like Our Girls, published by the
Harpers, have had an enormous circu-
lation, but the best work of my life |
shall give the world in the new maya
zine. 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?'
at has come through suffering, which
seems the only road to self knowledge.
The stomach, healt, kidneys or liver
fall into trouble, happinessis gone, and
then people give attention to their
health"
(which of these organs is most fre-
quently the victim Of our errors p ask
ed the Reporter.
"Withn the last few years diseases
of the kidneys have greatly multiplied.
When l was engagedin practice, thirty
five and forty years ago, serius disease
of the kidneys was rare; butnow dis
ressingly frequent and fatal
"To what do you attribute this great
increase of kidney troubles p
''To the use of stimulating drinks,
udulterated food and irregular habits of
life
doctor, have you any confidence in
the remedy of which we hear so much
nowadays, "Warner's Safe Cure %
81 believe in the ounce of prevention,
rather than in ton of cure"
"But have you noticed the remarka-
BILE testimonials of Warmers remedy?"
81 have, and confess that they have
puzzled and astonished me. The COM
mendations of proprietary medicines
usually come from unknown persons
residing 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 profes-
sional, but it is unmanly. No physi-
clan can forget that valuable additions
to our Materia Medica have sprung
from just such sources. was so i'm
pressed with this cloud of witnesses
that purchased some bottles of War
ner's Safe Cure at a neighboring drug
store, and analysed one of them to see
if it contained anything poision
GUS. Then took three of the pre-
scribed 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 tine hopeless
ness of all ordinary treatment, and be-
cause when hundred intelligent aud
reputable persons unite in the state
ment that certain remedy has cured
them of grave malady, l choose to
believe that they speak the truth"
''But as you may know, my great in
terest in life lies in prevention. For
forty years | have labo.ed 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 possibili
ties in the physical training of girls
during their school life. This institu-
| ton became before | left it, the largest
and most successful Seminary fol
| louhS WOillcH OWueu duu IldlldReu Dy
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 -1merican Re0ie,o of DE
cember, 1882
"Besides | established the Norma
Institute for physical training in Bos
ton, and for ten years was its Presiden
and Manager. DR.. Walter Claiming
DR.. Thomas Hoskins, Professor Leon
ard, and others were among its teach
ers, and more than four hundred per
sons took its diploma and went out into
all parts of the land to teach the new
school of gymnastics. And now tn
years left to me ! propose to devote t.
the magazine which | have come her
to establish. 1t will be the largest pc
riodical ever devoted to this field o
literature, and will present the hundre
and one questions of hygience with tn
! simplicity of a cbilds talk To thi
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