The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-08
HOW EDITOR DANA LIVES.
m. .H. Connolly, in The Cook.l

A familiar figure in the streets of New York, is that oi a sturdy, athletic man, with 6rm yet springy tread, keenly ob- servant look and genial smile. whose strongly marked individuality would cause almost any stranger to ask, "Who is her and almost any New Yorker would promptly reply, That is the Hon. Charles A. Dana. the representative edi- tor" Neither in face or figure does he seem 10 be more than forty years of age, yet on the Sth of Angus. next, he will be s;xty-six. That he should still be in man. hoods prime, after so many years of en- ergetic, exhaustive, unremit,ina toil. ever under the weightiest responsibilities and cares of editorial, literary and public life, is surprising. How does he do iii -Well," Mir Dana replied, smilingly, to one who put that question, d live we'll and take rational exercise. l have no hobbies about plain and simple food. but eat everything can get that is good and that l know by experience agrees with me. Theories about eating are all nonsense. Experience must govern every sensible mans selection of his food II a man like Gould, who has one of the best of cooks-or Vanderbilt, confines himself to a few simple dishes, it is be- cause he has learned by exper fence that they agree best with him. Some men naturally have weak digestive powers and must put strange restrictions on them selves. Conkling. for instance, when ia Washington, used to breakfast always on baked apples and little bread. use very little fruit, seme vegetables, a good deal of bread, but mainly meats-meAts of any kind; have no pIejudices. Two 1 good meals day arc enough for me. If l take luncheon it is very light-hardly more than glass of milk. Do drink wine5 Oh, yes; dry champagne. be- cause l consider that best. left of long ago drinking claret, hook and all swee, wines. They and fruit tend to rheuma- tism and gout. The only saie thing to drink, if you would avoid gout is dry champagne. Burgundy1 An A man of sound principles would rather have the gout little, than abandon 1t altogether. Corton and Musigny, or even A hne Lafitte, are we'll worth some hazard. Yes, and Clos de Vougeot is very good, too, With either of them you get sort of something for. ] take tea at breakfast, l Odh uSC NCty ttkNg JUICE All kuIOuku the war, when was nding a great deal on horseback, after being all day long in the saddle coffee was useful and pleas aRt, but 1t does not agree with my habits of life since then. Ii has more effec; upon my nervous system than lea has. No, l do not smoke do not use tobacco in any form. IL is not diges,ibie. That is matter of experience, not of theory" The conversation drifting to the suo- ject of exercise, Mir. Dana sad From 1850 to 1870, 1 took a good deal of horse back exercIse. Alter the war l rode a great deal in Dickel's, a!terward Greens, and also at lit,le riding school kept by my friend Palomino on East 22d street
 1 have great passion for breaking green, young horses to the high manege While the main purpose is exercise, the attrac- ton is the fun of II. used to train horses to all sorts of circus tricks. or late years have not done so much rid. ing. It takes too much time. My main exercise since partly giving up riding has been billiards One can always find time for a game Of billiards. And 1t IS an excellent exercise. Your whole frame is brought into sufficiently active exertion, not of violent kind, and your mind is quite taken away from the subjects that habitually occupy 1t, Ina, is wha, makes both billiards and horseback riding such valuable exercise, the best indeed, for men engaged in intellectual pursuits. Yes, draw poker is good in its way. do not wish to underra,e II as an intel iectuai and dIverting pursuit. Su; yo. don't get the exeroise from il that you do from riding or billiards. Walking is ex- ercise for the sake of exercise and oblec- tionable for that reason"