Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-05-04
OED FOLKS HABITS.
STEADY WORK, AN EVEN PULSE AND
REClU AR LIVES

/ than The Globes old people have given IL.
Not only have the farmers and their wives
. been early risers, but nearly all who have fol
/ lowed other occupations have been also If
/ Observance of FrunBlin's maxim has had any
predominant effect conducive to longevity,
the fact we have just stated strikes hard
blow at the theory Of some physicians, who
claim that man should not 60 abroad in the
morning until the sun has been up long
enough to dissipate the noxious vap0rs which
have risen from and overhang the earths
surface during the night.
So marked were the instances of eaIly rls-
ing and retiring that The Globe made list
Of persons who may be said to represent the
extremists of at least the first lines of the
maxim. and found that out of about 1900
persons whose habits of life were intelligent
" set forth in the blanks $50 men have been
through life in the habit of lying abed not
later than $50 o'clock in the morning, while
3gs women always have risen before g a. m,
most of whom stln continue to do So These
are the people who were trained from youth
90 get a grip ON the days work that did not
loosen until it was done: who cleared our
forests, built our roads, founded our towns
established our school system, and from the
native richness of their country homes sent
into the world the sturdy young men, the
rosy checked young women, with whose in
hux the town became the city, the city a
metropolis and profitable market was Gre
ated for the products of the farms they had
left and the money made in mercantile life
went back to the tillers of the soil and our
inland commerce came into being
One correspondent, writing from New
market, N. H., gives good idea Of the cir
cumstances of some of the old people he has
seen, and advances one or two ideas not un-
supported by medical opinion. He says II
could extend names almost indefinitely of
men all around here living on an abundance
of plain food, hard workers, no liquors, regu-
lar in their habits, who never die from dis
ease, but only as old age takes them off, l
include regular church attendance because
l believe that to be an important matter as
giving peace of mind, cOntentment and hope
all favorable to longevity. On the other
hand, l could furnish large list of persons
who, other things being favorable have
killed themselves with liquor cider, irregu-
larity in eating, working and sleeping; some
living to good age but always sickly Men
and women living in the neighborhood, who
have been temperate in all things, never die,
if they escape consumption, except from
pneumonia or other acute disease Almost
every farmhouse that has remained in the
same family for a century will be home for
three or four generations, all living together,
extremes meeting excellent company for
each other and the happiest families that can
be found No danger Of filial love and rev
erence dying out in such families as these.
GNThaV.a fe inf l.
bring out in this canvass among the old
people" writes another correspondent, "and
that is the effect of tobacco ON the health.
If this point has been as carefully considered
by other correspondents and with the same
results, it alleyiates the fears which many
may entertain about nicotine and the cur
tailmeut of life by the use of tobacco
Among the very oldest of the people inter |
viewed, between 80 and 100, the men have |
been addicted to the use of tobacco, in the |
majority of cases, since an early age"
But our returns fail to show that any con. |
siderable number of the old people ever made .
habitual use of liquor through life; and il /
must be borne in mind that the Medford rum .
1t our grandfathers and other liquors in use
half century ago We're without doubt purel .
and better than nineteen -twentieths of the |
liquor sold today. One hundred and fifty of |
the old gentlemen say positively that they
never used liquor or tobacco in any form qs
'ontesS TO the use Of liquor only. II TO the
lse of tobacco only, while "a admit bayino
made hahitual use of both Guuor and IN.
l9cco, though instances of immoderate ugf
# liquor are very rare. We cannot tbinL
heSe figures accurate, as it is doubtful if tbi,
uhjtct was thoroughly canvassed. but if is
aio to say that a very small proportion of
he men and but trivial number of tbs
women made habi,ual use of liquor and To-
,acco.
IL Is curious TO note, by the way. that
many OF the men who used liquor only in
arly life ceased using it entirely. while Of
he men who used liquor and tobacco nearly
III who discarded liquor clung TO the tobacco
ahit Cider forty-four men say. they have
rank for years, but the effect of hard ciler
pom the constitution cannot be learned from
Tie Globes figures until some of the farmer.
hat had nothing 90 say ON the subject mr.
card from
The statistics of women who p,oda b,lit,,-s
Sc of liquor or tobacco are more incopnls-.
lan of the men. Only three were OilIipg n,
ny that they had used snufr-whicb mpsf bg
Grand eleven admit having smoked which
Toportlun, too, must Doe small.
With exceptions So few as TO be NOT yv,rtb
'cortins numerically, the old people upoD
ie list have had three meals day. nj rem.
n hours, of substantial food throurb tl,si,
'os; aud what is moro interesting pin,. il
nIhs ot them stIu continue to eat beartiI,,
nd of whatever they like Il is a hvgienir
~ that thnoe light meals day are bettey
" elderly people u health than ane bes,-,,
le, and our old people, Of course. ars simply
lloWinS The dictates ot nature. while at tbs h,
me time they prove the truth of her te,cL. II
IS Tea and coffee, too, they usa ops m,
o other, but most ~ them both. with oply
'out dozpn exemptions Some have takeD
drinking those beverages late in life hnt nj
Z enough, we may infer, % affect No. 8,
racy ot the statement that ne9rly su i, al
em have hoen toa and cohee drinkers y
Ot Vegetarians but nine are mentioned fr.
'n ami four womoa Two WortsD ~ ~
so,abi1s, one 0ats none that gr5O sl.,ys
ounsA one cats no hsh and one eats mo- p,..,t al
To sum up their table habits. our 5ctr.rsr.,
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