Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-27
VETERAN BENEFACTOR.
HIS Past Life, Present Plans, and
What He Has 10 Say Upon
subject That Astonished
Hha
New York Times

What He Has TO Say Upon
subject That Astonished
Hha.
New York Times
/ Nearly forty years ago young man,
of unusual endowmentS. began to mould
I public opinion upon a subject of vital
/ Importance. Like all pioneers, his ear
/ ~ efforts We're unsuccessful. but his
ability and the value of his work soon
won public confidence, and to-day there
is not a village or hamlet in the country
that has not been influenced BY DIR. bio
Lewis. When, therefore, it was learned
yesterday that he contemplated the es-
Establishment of large magazine in this
city, the fact was deemed so important
that representative of this paper was
commissioned to see him and ascertain
the truth of the rumor
DIR. bio Lewis Is gentleman of sixty
years and two hundred pounds, with
snow-white hair and beard, but proha-
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 dohe promises still greater
activity for years to come. He received
the interviewer most courteouSly, and
III reply 10 question SAID:
1t is true l have come to New York
to establish monthly magazine. have
come here for the same reason that l
went to Boston p 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.
Il 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, aud
I especially upon the vigor of our women.
My new magazine will bear the title
/ 'Dio Lewis's Monthly, and be devoted to
I Sanitary and Social Science. l hope
! through its pages to inaugurate new
! departure in hygiene"
/ Have you not written several books
on the subject"
Yes, 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 l 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 or 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"
TO what do you attribute this great
increase of kidney troubles"
TO the use of stimulating drinks,
adulterated food and irregular habits of
life
Doctor. have you any confidence i'll
the remedy of which we hear so much
nowadays, Warmers Safe Cure?"
L believe in the ounce of prevention,
rather than in a ton of cure"
But havey noticed the remarkable
testimonials of Warmers remedy
4 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
fNrIrat that N-oIl1o lNIn additions 10 r
Hoterid Medicd have sprung from just
such sources. | was so impressed with
this cloud of witnesses that 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. l 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-
bic persons unite in the statement that
a certain remedy has cured them of a
grave malady, l choose to believe that
I 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 ann 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 a family of two hundred
persons. The remarkable results of this
muscle training among girls, were given
in my paper published in the North
american ReUie1c 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, Dr.
Thomas Hoskins, Professor Leonard,
and others were among its 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 n.y.
giene with the simplicity of child's
talk. To this end all so-called learning
will be subofdinated. The magazine
will be more or less illustrated, and will
strive to reach high place in the con-
fidence and hearts of the people. In a
few weeks, our first number will appear
and we shall fondly hope for it hearty
welcome"
The facts above narrated are indeed
most important. 1t is gratifying to know
that the life long experiences of a gentle
man who stands without a peer in sue
cessfully demonstrating the principles 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 a mag
azine. And it is specially significant
and proof positive of rare merit that
proprietary medicine, even with suck
high standing as Warmers Safe Cure is
known to have, should be endorsed and
recommended by a man SO able. so re-
putabie and of such national reLown as
Dr. Dio Lewis.
1t is announced that Miss Anna
Dickinson IS tn ha~ip another starrinnr