The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-12
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
Facts That Centenarisns supply Eating
Too Much.

Too Much.
Blessed are tie poverty stricken II
longevity be a blessing The majority
Of the oighty-four ceWenarians who were
alive i'm France at the taking Of the last
census were extremely poor There were
twenty-0ue of them living on aims a
beggars OF in almshouses. The open ar
life of a shepherd must be also condu-
GIVE to long life a beggar named Rives,
at TUrbcs. was born IN 100, and "a
woman vino herded goats in the Ceven.
mes mountains had exceeded llS years.
Widows survive into a great Old age;
their husbands more often than widow.
els 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 10 % IN 1884 Is
this because the ungentle sex are tie
more deeply sentimental, or the gentle
ones eat less and have better regulated
tcmpcrs:
Yon know or perhaps you don {
Lnow-tEat nothing hastens senIllty like
habimal guiding. Would 1t not be well
dining rooms Of city companies and ai
the Mansion house, Your elderly guz
zler or the shady side of middle life D..
though De lives, in many respects dead.
His brain IS starved 10y the cioggng Il
the hair Ike arteries which used % feed
it, The sediment that chokes them
comes of too nutntiyc food and too much
l. J. Il q
his muscles rigid his knuckles chalky
and has lungs and throat ready o. catch
cold. Turkish baths keep of. IN q de-
gree. these effects, but the best Liam l. moi
10 he gourmand.
Those centenarian beggars. dare say.
had not tie 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 q
cmld-a reason why it does hot clog
capillary arteries. But in the south il
has deal of force in it derived strgigLi
from the sun. WHICH is convertible INTO
vivacity. Eggs are also plentiful, hens
having in the south four more months IN
the wear thar ia the north. The egg Is
ideal food for any one who wants a lot u
nutnmcmt in a small volume / should
pity tine French mendicant who could
not procure az village inns an omelette
or an mu' sur ie plat.
L. is Tact worth noting that most q
the families who were raised 10 high
positions and profusely gilded 10y the First
Napoleon are extinct. and that those still
existing are represented chiefly by
women. The First Empire and It's wars
did not play havoc with the dukes and
princes who sprang up around Is head.
The harm was done by the second EN-
pre. whose ideal was fare Dombance.
The higher class Bonapartists ate drank.
and were nearly all guZzlers, and man
aged 10 soak any amount of fine wines
al their lunches and dinners. The
fashion in their time came in Of having as
many wine glasses at each plate as there
are hues in a great stack of chImneys.
When appetite palled, the sorbet russo
was brought IN 10 act on the unfortunate
stomach as a tonic and enable II TO go
through Us much more as II had gone
through already. One Of the reasons
why the late Marshal Bazaine could not
get quickly out of Metz to bar the way
against the PruSsians was that the en-
reror started before hun, aud SO the road
was blocked with the service de Ia bouche
and the wagons carrying the belongings
of his imperial majesty, which were
truly impedimenta.
When the Israelites Were under the
ocracy, and tine chief priests sons ate as
do CITY Of London aldermen, the HhIIIs-