The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
HOW TO LIVE long.
Facts That CenfenarIans supPly-Eat-
ing Too Much.

Facts That CeufenarIans ~Suppiy-Eat-
ing TOO Much.
Blessed are the poverty stricken, il
longevity be blessing. The majority of
the eighty-four c~entenarians who were alive
were extremely poor. There were TWEEN
ty-one of them living on aims as beggars
or in almshouses. The open air life Of a
shepherd must be also conducive 60 long
life. A beggar named Rivers, at Tarbes,
was born in ITO, and a weman who herd
ed goats in the Cevennes mountains had
exceeded 118 years. Widows survive into
a great old age; their husbands more often
than widowers pay such bad compliment
to their wives. The proportion of the
c%entenarian widows as compared to the
same class OF widowers was as Al to % in
1894. Is this because the ungentle sex are
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 habit
ual guzzling. Would it not be well to
hang up the above statistics in the dining
rooms of city companies and at the Man
sion house? Your elderly guzzier 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 sedi-
men that chokes them comes of too nu-
tritive food and too much Of it. His bones
are dense and weighty, his muscles rigid,
his knuckles chalky, aud his lungs and
throat ready to catch cold Turkish baths
keep of, in d degree, these effects, but the
best plan is not to be g%ourmaDd.
Those c~entenarian beggars, | dare say,
had uot the means of eating heavily, and
few in the south of France, to which they
belong. drink deep. Meat, too, is their
dear and trying to bad teeth, and fruit is
plentiful, cheap and good. This last won't
make bone and muscle 10 a child-a reason
why it does not clog capillary arteries.
But in the south it has a 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 the ideal food for any one who
wants a lot of nutriment in a small volume.
| should pity the French nnendicant who
could not procure at village inns an ONE
lette or an euf sur 10 plat.
1t is a fact worth noting that most ofthe
families who were raised to high positions
are 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 lone by the second empire, whose
ideal was faire bombance. The higher
class Bonapartists ate, drank, and were
nearly all guzzlers, and managed 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 fiues in a great
stack of chimneys. When appetite palled,
the sorbet russo was brought in to act on
the unfortunate stomach as a tonic and
enable it TO 60 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 Prussisns was that
the emperor started before him, and so the
road was blocked with the service de la
bouehe and the wagons carrying the be-
longings of his imperial majesty, which
were truly impedimenta.
When the Israelites were under a theoe-
racy, and the chief priests sons ate as do
city of London aldermen, the Philistines
routed them. Likewise Marshal de Sou
bise was immortalized By his sauce for
mutton chops and disgraced by his de-
fates. The old French monarchy was
done for when Louis XVI, whether trying
to fly from France or q prisoner at the as
sembly in one of It's most stormy sittings,
could not do without a heavy meal at h
usual hour. | never saw anything SO
prodlgious as the service de la bouche at
the Tuileries and Fontainebieau. The
kitchens there were vast factories. aud
were situated at a great distance from the
court dining and ~banqueting rooms out of
respect for imperial n~ostrils. By the time,
therefore, the dishesigot to the table they
were spoiled. -Paris Cor. London Truth.