River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-05
A VETERAN BENEFAoToR.
His Past Life, Present Plans, and
What He Has TO Say Upon Sub
iect That Astonished Him.

New York Times.
Nearly forty years ago ayoung man, OF
unusual endowments, began to mould
oublic opinion upon a subject of vital
importance. Like all pioneers, his early
efforts were unsuccessful, but his ability
and the Saltie Of his work soon won pub
ic confidence, AMI to-day thefe is not .
village or hamlet in the country that has
not been influenced by DR.. bio Lewis.
When, therefore, it was learned yester-
day that ne contemplated the establish
ment of large magazine in this city, the
fact was deemed so important that Il rep.
tsentatiYe of this paper was commls-
roned to see him and ascertain the
nth of the rumor.
DR.. bio Lewis is a gentleman of sixty
Gears and two hundred pounds, with
h0w- white hair and beard, but probably
lie most perfect picture of health anu
vigor in the metropolis lie is living
exponent of his teachings, and n0twith-
atanding the amount of work lie has ale
;eady done; promises still greater activ-
ity for years to COME, lie received the
interviewer most courteousiy, and IN re
ply to question said:
at is true | have come to New York
20 establish a monthly mag azine.
tiGvs come here for the same reason
that | went TO Boston 25 years ago.
Then Boston was tie best platform in
the country from which to speak of ed
ucation. New York has now become
most hospitable 10 progressive thoughts,
and especially 80 to movements on be-
half of physical training.
81 have reason to know the great ana
abiding interest of the American people
in this subject. They have come TO re-
alize 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. l hope
through its pages to inaugurate anew de-
parture in hygiene.'
'IIave you not written several books
on the subject"
ayes, nine volumes, and some ofthem
like "Our Girls" published by the Ilar-
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"
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
people give attention to their health"
(which of these organs Is most FREE
quently the victim of our errorsY' 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 distress
ingly frequentand fatal.
'ro what do youattrlbute this great in
crease of kidney troubles"
''lo the use Of stimulating drinks, 2dul-
terated food and irregular habits oflife."
doctor, have YOU any confidence IN
the remedy of which we lear so mitch
nowadays Warmers Safe Cure?'"
81 believe in the ounce of prevention,
rather than in a ton Of cure"
"But lave you noticed the remarkable
testimonials of Warners's remedy"
81 have and confess that they have puz-
zled and astonished me. The common
dati0ns of proprietary medicines usually
come from unknown persons residing in
back counties. Bit ! see III our most re-
putable newspapers the warmest praise
of Warmers Safe Cure from College Pro-
fessors, 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. was SO
IMPRESSED with this cloud OF witnesses
that / purchased some bottles of Warm
ers Safe Cure alta neighbofing drug store,
and analyZed one of them to see if 1t con-
tanned anything poisonous. Then took
three oft 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 hopelessness
of all ordinary treatment, and because
when a hundred intelligent and reputa-
BILE persons unite in the statement that
certain remedy has cured them OF Il
great malady, | choose to believe that
they speak the truth.
But 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 ain Was to illustrate Tie possibilities
IN the physical training of girls during
their school life. This institution became
before | left it, the largest and mo st sue
cesslul Seminary for young women own
ed and managed by one person, in our
country. sat down to dinner every
day with family of two hundred per-
sons The remarkable results of this
muscle training among girls, were 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 its president and
manager DR.. Walter Claiming, DIR.
Thomas Hoskins, Professor Leonard and
others were among its teachers, and
more than four hundred persons took
lis diploma and went out into all parts
of the land to teach the new schools of
gymnastics, And now the years left to
magazine which have COME here
to establish. 1t will be the largest
periodical ever devoted to this field oflit-
elature, and will present the hundred
and one questions of hygiene with the
simplicity ola child's talk. To this end all
M-calied learning will be subordinated.
The magazine will be 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
gentleman who stands without peer in
successfully demonstrating the princi-
Piles 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 a 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 ,sh 1uld
he endorsed aud recommended by a
man so able, so reputable and Of such
national reuown az DR.. bio Lewis.
A Great Master of Style-and
Nothing Else.
There is told the story of a phenome-