Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-20
A Veteran BenefactOr.
His Past Life, Present Plans and What He Has to Say Upon Subject That AstODished Him.

He Has to Say upon SdUJoCS AAAAS
 AstOnfshed Him.
 From the New York Times.l
 Nearly forty wears ago a young mRR, of unusual endowments, began to mould public opinion upon a subject of vital importance. Like sll pioneers, his early efforts were an- successful but his ability and the value or his work soon won public confidence, and to- day there is not village or hamlet m Lne country that has not been influenced by Dr.
 bio Lewis When, therefore, it was learned yesterday that he contemplated the estao- l:shment of 8 large magazine in this city, the fact was deemed so important that rep
 resentatiVe of this paper was commissIoneo to see him and ascertain the truth of the ru-
 nor.
 Dr. bio Lewis is a gentlemen of sixty
 years and two hundred pounds, with snow
 white hair and beard, but probably the most
 rerfect 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 st1ll
 greater activity for years to come. He re-
 ceived the interviewer most courteously, and
 in reply to question sfid:
 sIt is true have come to New York to es-
 tablish monthly magazine. have come
 here for the same reason that went to Bos-
 ton twenty-five years ago. Then Boston was
 the best platform in the country from which
 to speak of education. New York has now
 become most hospitable to progressive
 thought, and especially so to movements on
 behalf of physical training.
 q have reason to know the great and ab1- ding interest of the American people in this subject. They have come to realize that the future of our country pivots upon our phys icsI vitality, and especially upon the vlgor of our women My new magazine will bear the title bio Lewis Monthly and be devoted to sanitary and social science. 1 hope
 through it's pages to inaugurate new depar- ture in hygiene"
 the subject ?"
 ssYes nine volumes, and some of them like Our Girls published by the Harpers, have had an enormous circulation, but the pest work of my life I shall give the world Tn the new magazine. Forty years Of sklrmlsnlng ought to conclude with ten years ot organ l ized warfare"
 Doctor, what is the occasion of this new interest in health questions ?" ssIt 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 frequent ! ly the victim of our errors 7" asked the re- porter.
 | tWithin the last few years diseases of the | kidneys have greatly multiplied. When l \ was engaged in practice, thlrty-hve and for ty wears ago, serious disease of the kidneys was rare; but now distressingly- frequent 1 and fatal"
 I t'To what do you attribute this great in l crease of kidney troubles ?''
 ETo 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 FWarner's Safe Cure p
 q believe in the ounce of prevention rather than in ton of cure"
 sBut have you noticed the remarkable tes- | timonials of Warmers remedy" s'I have, and confess that they have pug | zled and astonished me. The commenda- \ tions of proprietary medicines usually come Il from unknown persons residing 1n back counties But I see in our most reputable | newspapers the warmest praise of Warner s \ Safe Cure from college professors, respecta- | ble physicians ann other persons of high in- I telligence and character. To thrust such I testimony aside may be professional, but it | is unmanly. No physician can forget that ! valuable additions to our Materia Medica have sprung from just such sources. was so impressed with this cloud of witnesses that I purchased some bottles of Warner s Safe Cure at a neighboring drug store, and analysed one of them to see if it contained anything poisonous. Then I took three of the prescribed doses at once, and found there was noth:ng injurious in 1t. do not hesi- tate to say that if found my kidneys in se- rious trouble should use this remedy, be- cause of the hopelessness of all ordinary treatment, and because when hundred in telligent and repute ble persons unite in the statement that a certain remedy has cured them of a grave malady. I choose to believe that they speak the truth.
 'sBut as you may know, my great interest in life lies in prevention. For forty years have Iabored in this field. One of the phases of my work in New England was the okoII oe hn 1,p6I Lexington, Mass My aim was to illustrate the possibilities in the physical training Of girls during their school life. This inst1tu- tion became, before I left it, the largest and most successful seminary for young women
 owned and managed by one person in our country. I 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 pub lished in the North American Review of De- cember, 1882.
 Besides, I established the Normal Insti- tute for Physical Training in Boston, and for ten years was it's president and manager. Dr. Walter Charming, Dr. Thomas Hoskins, Professor Leonard, and others were among it's teachers, and more than four hundred persons took it's diploma and went out into all parts of the land to teach the new school of gymnastics And now the years left to mo propose to devote to the magazine
 OosG1NAAoANs be the largest periodical ever devoted to this field of literature, and will present the hun dred and one questions of hygiene with the simplicity of a child's talk. To this end all so- called learning will be subordinated. The magazine will be more or less illustrated, and will strive to reach a high place in the confidence and hearts of the people. In few weeks our first number will appear, and we shall fondly hope for it hearty welcome"
 The facts above narrated are indeed most important. It is gratifying to know that the life long experiences of gentleman who demonstrating the principlee of hygiene; whose heart has always been in sympathy with the afflicted, and whose brain has ever been active in planning for their relief, are to be given to the public through the pages of magazine. And it is specially significant and proof positive of rare merit that a proprietary medicine. eyen yen with G such i known to have, should be endorsed and recommended by man so able, so repu- table and of such national renown as Dr. bio Lewis.