New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-27
HOW LIyE.IDNG.
fhs, Course Pars.ed BY People wkb Have Attain.
ed Great Age.

fhs, Course Pafsued BY People VIII Have Attain.
ed Great Age.
A few days ago the hero OF the hour
in France was NJ. Chevreul, who has
just completed the first century OF his
existence; and a 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 to.vegetables; but he likes on
ions and fruits Wine he has never
tasted. But other things besides diet
have contributed to NJ. Chevreuls long
life.
First, he had good beginning. His
ancestors were healthy and long lived;
to get and heavy to hold" If not
born with silver spoon in his mouth,
he was certainly we'll provided for,
and he seems to have had little trouble
in the " orld.
But M. Chevreul 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 the habit ofnever
saying 81 shall do" nor al am doing"
but 81 have DONE" and to the fact
that he added drop OF rum to his
coffee!
The experience OF M. 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
congenial 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 M. Chevreul, a Paris cor
respondent says he can see no special
merit in q mans living 100 years.
'"The other day." he says, 81 was
shown an ancient angler who is lO5
years old, and who has been teasing
the gudgeons in the River Rance for
nearly a century past"
This worthy old Frenchman at
tributes his great age to fishing with
rod and line and says that if every
one would 60 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 SO. In
reply to a question as to his habits,
he explained that he had laid down
when young one maxim to which he
rigidly adhered, ana to which he at
tributed much OF his good health.
What was that? To rise with the
lark? No.. To 60 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 certain Canon Bleadon,
who reached 100 years by the simple
precaution Of wearing an overcoat! 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.. Ofone tits stated, 'Dur-
ing her long life she took on other
medicine than sulphur and infused
blackberry leaves, to which she at
trtbuted her perfect state Of health
and longevity"
There ls,one case on record which
would seem to prove that even dirty
habits are not unfavorable to longev-
ity. An Edinburg paper of February,
1771, reports the death OF a Montrose
woman in her I07th year. "Her neigh
bors say that she had not washed her
lace Tor 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 thar 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 N October,
But he, who goes to bed and goes to bed
mellow,
Lives, as he ought to do, and dies goaG
fellows.
In the good old times this adage 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 III England a famous
New York minister wEa began life as
a blacksmith in Yorkshire. This is
the Rev. Robert Collyer, who. says