Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-10-28
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
The Course Parsed ~ People Who Nave Attain
"a Greaf Age

The Course Pursued ~ People Who Nave Attain
Cd Great Age.
A few days ago the hero Of the hour
in France was NJ cheyreul, who has
just completed the FIRST century OF his
existence; and fete in his honor was
celebrated in the botanical gardens OF
Paris. To what does this eminent
man attribute his great age? To the
action OF coffee in preventing waste OF
system, and to his moderation in eat
ing.
In addition to coffee, he has indulg.
ed In warm baths He has always,
it is reported, had a repugnance to
fish and 70 vegetables; but be likes on
ions and fruits. Wine he has never
tasted But other things besides diet
have contributed to NJ. Chevreul' s long
life.
First, he had good beginning. His
ancestors were healthy and lcnglived;
moreover he never found money hard
to get and heavy to hold" II not
born with a silver spoonin his mouth,
he was certainly well provided for,
and he seems to have had little troubls
In the world.
But NJ Cheyreul does not dogmatize
like some other. men who have
achieved lenth of days. A few seem
to think their own method OF living
and working the best for all other
men. The Able Moigno, a famous
French scientist, for instance, ex-
claimed: How happy would those
be who should adopt my regime" He
attributed his powers OF work and his
old age to abstinence from tobacco,
eating little meat, to thehab ofnever
saying 81 shall do, nor IL am doing"
but al have done" and TO the fact
that he added a drop of rum to his
coffeei
The experience OF NJ. Mignet, another
octogenarian, who was the oldest
member OF the French Academy, diff
fers slightly from the Industrious
savant. He ascribes his extreme old
age to sobriety in eating and drinking,
the habit of long walks, constant and
eongenial work, early hours, and per-
feet contentment with a small in
come.
Extraordinary are the reasons assign
ed by some people for their great age.
Referring to NJ. Chevreul, Paris cor
respondent says he can see no special
merit in mans living 100 years.
The other day" he says, 81 was
shown an ancient angler who is los
years old, and WHO has been teasing
the gudgeons in the River Rance for
nearly century past"
This worthy old Frenehman at
tributes his great age TO fishing with
a rod and line, and says that il every
one would go a-fishing for a hundred
years or so very few would die young
Lord Marchmont, the friend OF the
poet Pope, lived to the age OF Sc. In
reply to question as to his habits.
he explained that he had laid down
when young one maxim to which he
rigidiy adhered, AMI to which he at
tributed much OF his good health.
What was that? To rise with the
lark? No. To go to bed sober? No.
To live on one meal day? No. 1t
was, "never to mix his wines"
Not less curious IS the reason
given by a certain Canon Bleadon,
who reached 100 years by the simple
precaution of wearing an overcoati 1t
is recorded by another centenarian
that he had never eaten cold meat,
and by this abstinence he had saved
his digestion from premature exhaus-
ton.
From the Land of Cakes we have
equally interesting, but equally I'M
satisfactory, explanations of long life.
A Scotch newspaper recently announc-
ed the death of four centenarians in
Morayshire. OF one it is stated, ''Dur-
ing her long life she took on other
medicine than sulphur and infused
blackberry leaves, to which she at
tributed her perfect state of health
and longevity"
There is one case on record which
would seem to prove that even dirty
habits are not unfavorable to longev-
ity. An Edinburg paper of February,
It'll, reports the death ola Montrose
woman in her 10th year. "Her neigh
bors say that she had not washed her
lace for thirty or forty years before
her death.
Some people are always complain
ing of the moral degeneracy OF our
times. Obviously they have never
read the social history of their own
country. Not half a century ago
drunkenness was encouraged by all
classes. An old adage says:
He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,
Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;
But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed
mellow,
Lives as he ought to do, and dies good
fellow.
In the good old times this ad age APP
pears to have been regarded as gospel
by all classes, and, in spite OF hard
drinking, many tipplers lived to old
age.
There is now in England a famous
New York minister who began life as
a blacksmith in Yorkshire. This is
the Rev. Robert Collyer, who says
that the way to the age of so is to be
temperate, virtuous, and to keep on
the sunny side of the hedge" He is
himself considerably over so, and de-
clares that he has never been i'll for a
day. He attributes his good health
to the fact that be was reared
on oatmeal and milk, and he claims
to have never had indigestion in his
life.
On the other hand, Carlyle lived to
be s3, had the dyspepsia all his life,
and never lived on "ths sunny side OF
the hedge" at all.-English Elk.