Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-09
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
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Blessed are the poverty stricken, If
longevity be blessing. The majority
Of the eighty -four centenarians who were
allys in France at the taking Of the Iagt
census were extremely poor. There were
twenty -oue Of them living on aims as
beggars or In almshpnses. The open air
life OF shepherd must be also condu-
Give to long life. A beggar named Rives,
at Tarbes, was born in 1770, and a
woman who herded goats in the Ceyen-
mes mountains had exceeded 118 years.
Widows survive into o great old age;
their husbands more often than widow
ers pay such a bad compliment to their
wives. The proportion Of the centenarian
widows as compared to the Same class Of
widowers was as Al to 90 in 1884. Is
this because the ungentle sex are the
more deeply sentimental, or the gentle
ones eat less and have better regulated
tenqpers?
Xou know-or perhaps you don't
know--that nothing hastens senility like
habitual glzzling. Would it not be well
to hang up the above statistics in the
dining rooms Of city companies and at
the Mansion houseS Your elderly guz-
zler on the shady side Of middle life is,
though he lives, in many respects dead.
His brain Is starved by the clogging Of
the hair like arteries which used to feed
it. The sediment that chokes them
comes Of too nutritive food and too much
of it. His bones are dense and weighty,
his muscles rigid, his knuckles chalky,
and his lungs and throat ready to catch
cold. Turkish baths keep off, in de-
gree, these effects, but the best plan is not
to be gourmand.
Those centenaIian beggars, ! dare say,
had not the means of eating heavily, and
few In the south OF France, to which
they belong, drink deep. Meat, too, is
there dear and trying to bad teeth, and
fruit is plentiful, cheap and good. This
last won't make bone and muscle in
child--a reason why it does not clog
capillary arteries. But in the south it
has deal Of force in it derived straight
from the sun. which Is convertible into
vivacity. Eggs are also plentiful, hens
laying in the south four more months In
tho year than In the north. The egg is
ideal food for any one who wants lot of
nutriment in small volume. / should
pity the French mendicant who could
not procure ut village inns an omelette
or an oeuf sur le plat.
It Is a fact worth noting that most of
the families who were raised to high
positions and profusely gilded by the First
. Napoleon are extinct, and that those still
existing are represented chiefly by
women. The First Empire and its wars
did not play havoc with the dukes and
princes who sprang up around its head.
The harm was done by the second en-
pire, whose ideal was faire bombance.
The higher class Bonapartists ate, drank,
and were nearly al guzzlers, aud man
aged to soak any amount of fine wines
at their lunches and dinners. The
fashion in their time came in Of having Us
many wine glasses at each plate as there
are fiues in a great stack Of chimneys.
When appetite palled, the sorbet russo
was brought in to act on the unfortunate
stomach as tonic and enable it to go
through as much moro as it had gone
4 through already. One of tho reasons
3 why the late Marshal Bazaine could not
get quickly out of Metz to bar the way
against tho Prussians was that the en-
peiEr started before him, and SO the road
E was blocked with the service de la bouche
4 and the wagons carrying the belongings
Of his imperial majesty, which were
truly impedimenta.
When tho Israelites wero under the
ocracy, and the chief priests sons ate rs
do city of London aldermen, the Philis-
tines routed them. Likewise Marshal de
Soubise was immortalized by his sauce
4 for mutton chops and disgraoed by his
: defeats. Tho old French monarchy was
done for when Louis XVI, whether try
ing to fly from Franco or a prisoner of
( tho assembly in ono of its most stormy
4 sittings, could net do without n heavy
meal ut tho usual hour. mover saw
anything go prodigious rs tho service de
] Ia bouche at the Tui!eTies and Fontainc-
n bleau. The kitchens there were vast fac
tories, end were situated at great dis
\ lance from the court dining and ban
+ quoting rooms out Of respect for imperial
ncst 4ils. BY the time, therefore, the
dishes rot TO table they were spoiled.
Poris Cor. London Truth,