The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-12
FOR DOCTORS.
EVARTs, DEPEW, AND INGERsoLI.
NEVER SAW A SICK DAY.

NEW Eh SAW a SICK DAY.
Neither OF Them Has Ever Taxen Anv
Exercise-Evarts Still "a Rugged Old
Gentleman - Ingerson Occasionally
Takes a Walk Around @ Billiard
Table.
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New YORK, Jan. 11.-Since Senator
William Maxwell Evarts returned from
Europe several weeks ago, little or nothing
has been heard from him. This fact has
led some people to conclude that the sem
ator was beginning to show his age. and
had determined to slowly withdraw from
public life. It was asserted when he went
to Europe last summer that he had gone to
Paris to consult famous oculist there ahout
his eyes. Up to that time no one. so far as
have been ebie to learn. was aware
that there was anything the matter with
the great mans eyes. Not long after this
explanation had been given to the public
through the medium of the NEWSPAPERS
contradictory cablegrams were received
from the other side which gave an air Of
mystery TO the senator's mission. It was
asserted chat he had not gone there for the
reason first stated, but to consummata n
large deal in the electric light business
However this may be, this was certainly
the first time within tho memory Of
the present generation that the senator had
peen known to have any physical ailment.
IL has been universally conceded that An
spite OF the fact that he is so small and
spare, he Is one CT tho healthiest men i'm
professional life, "a nd capable of more unre-
uniting toll than any of those whose names
have been associ Ated with his. In fact. as
ex-Attorney General Leslie W. Russell.
Judge hilton's attorney in the Stewart will
matters, said TO me the other day;
The senator is the only living lawyer
and the only one of whom there il anv
record WITHIN the past decade, who could.
in his prime, work all day, eat dinner OF
eight COURSES, and drink three bottles of
wine at night, and then sit up until o'clock
iii the morning porting over law books
without showing the slightest trace of
wearinsssn
II all of the senator's children were alive.
there would be, | understand, some four
teen of them. In the great Beecher. trial he
was the only one of the many counsel en-
ployed who came TO time promptly every
morning and remained strong and hearty
while the law books piled up and the case
began to assume its final complicated nat
ure. All the others were absent moro or less
because of physical prostration, and people
wondered to see this dwarf in stature CON
tinue calm and undismayed with his mental
vigor undIminished, while his professional
brethren, giants in comparison with him.
were one after another overcome It is OF
more than passing interest, therefore. to
observe what the senator says is his own
belief about the cause of his strength.
Recently this statement was made on
authority:
"Mr. Evarts is knocking down at one
f.Van IF Nbn .l,, III Al.
physicians by stating that the reason why
he has never been sick a day in his life and.
although spare man, he Is capable day by
day OF unremittlng work. and always able
to dine freely In the evening and afterward
to return to his writing table, is that he
never takes, and never has taken, any
physical exerclsen
This declaration was made last summer.
at that time / endeavored to see the senator
and learn more fully from his own Inns
what had been his practice in this regard.
The doctrine promulgated here seemed both
monstrous and unjustified. As the senator
is not IN the habit Of making sensational
statements, but Is rather inclined TO be
ultra-dignified, at first thought it DOS
sibie that ne may have been misrepresented.
l called at his house on Second avenue and
at ms office, but he was not to be found at
either place. Mr. Joseph Choate, the eIo-
quent orator, and Mr., Evarts' side partner
In legal matters, said that the senator had
gone out Of town. ! had taken tho trouble
TO write out the above quotation and
banded it to Mr.. Choate.
what do you think Of thatr / asked
him
Mr.. Choate read it over very carefully.
looked at the ceiling I'm an abstracted
manner, hemmed and hawed, and finally
said, with smile that would have won any
jury:
so, 1 really can't say anything about this,
you know"
Mr.. Choate was not impatient; he was
only diplomatic.
There can be no question about its accu- |
racy, MIR. Choatep l asked him
HIM, ah, sweII, you know" said Mr.. |
Choate, stroking bis chin rehectiveIy and |
gazing with great intsntneSs at blank |
space over my head, ''do you really want |
to know r.
Why, certainly" replied.
w ell, then, am very sorry | can't tell |
you" said Mr.. Chbate, heaming on me |
grAciously. "I wish / could, but l really |
DON'T know. You might ask him when he |
ZONES back"
/ waited for three months and then I |
wrote to the senator. He evidently did not |
receive my letter, as / obtained no reply. / |
would have abandoned all attempts to solve |
the problem at this time had not casually |
the subject one day while visit |
ing DR.. tJhauncey M. Depew at his office at |
the Ora nd Central depot. DR.. Depew was |
half reclining in an easy chair, talking over |
the r>olitical situation with his private sec |
Rotary, the omniscient Henry G. Duval. |
Tie conversation had just turned upon |
Senator Evarts when l came In, and this |
inspired me to quote the above paragraph |
to Mr.. Depew.
"Why, certainly" said the latter, chat |
Is absolutely true. He told me this himself |
q OF so many months ago. He never had |
Jeen sick in his life up to that time. He is |
a man Of most remarkable v1gor, out l |
know that he never took any exercise. In |
fact, he objected to it,"
''Well, what do you think Of the doc
trineW | asked him.
81 think it's all right" said Mr.. Depew.
II don't believe in exercise In the ordinarily
accepted meaning of that term. | haven't |
taken any exercise in ten years, although
walk around a great deal in my Office
That is the only kind of physical exercise
that / have, and l never felt better in my
life. 1t makes a great deal Of difference
who the man Is. Now, a man like Mr..
Evarts, of spare figure, who hasn't any
adipose tissue to dispose of, doesn't, it
strikes the, stand in any very great need of
exercise. Big, fat men might require it.
1t is amazing, though, what remarkable
strength Evarts has for a man Of his years,
and no W he has been able to violate good
many accepted notions as TO the best means
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