Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
Facts That centenarians suppIy-Eatins
Too Much.


Facts That centenarians supply-Eating
Too Much.
Blessed are the poverty stricken, If
longevity be a blessing The majority
of the eighty -four ceutenarians who were
alive in France at the taking of the last
census were extremely poor. There were
twenty-oue of them living on aims as
beggars or in almshouses. The open air
life Of shepherd must be also condu-
Give to long life. A beggar named Rives,
at Tarbes, was born in ITO, and a
woman who herded goats in the Ceven-
mes mountains had exceeded 11S years.
Widows survive into 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 Il to 23 in 1884. Is
this because the ungentle sex are the
more deeply sentimental, or the gentle
ones eat less and have better regulated
tempers:
You know-or perhaps you don't
know-that nothing hastens senility like
habitual guiding. Would it not be well
to hang up the above statistics In the
dining rooms of city companies and at
the Mansion house? 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 centenarian 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 a
child--a reason why it does not clog
capillary arteries. But in the south 1t
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
the year than in the north. The egg is
ideal food for any one who wants lot of
nutriment in small volume. 1 should
pity the French mendicant who could
not procure at village inns an omelette
or an oeuf sur lie plat
1t is 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 all guzzlers, and man
aged to soak any amount of fine wines
at their lunches and dinners. The
fashion in their time came in of having as
many wine glasses at each plate as there
are flues in 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 more as it 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-
peror started before him, and 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 We're under the
ocracy, and the chief priests sons ate as
do city of London aldermen, the Philis-
tines routed them. Likewise Marshal de
Soubise was immortalized by his sauce
for mutton chops and disgraced by his
defeats. The old French monarchy was
done for when Louis XVI, whether try.
ing to fly from France or prisoner Of
the assembly in one of its most stormy
sittings, could not do without heavy
meal at the usual hour. / never saw
anything so prodigious as the service de
Ia bouche at the Tuileries and Fontaine-
bleau. The kitchens there were vast fac.
tories, and were situated at great dis
lance from the court dining and ban.
\ quoting rooms out of respect for imperial
I nostrils. By the time, therefore, the
dishes got to table they were spoiled. -
| Paris Cor. London Truth.