The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Mr.. BLAINE'S HEALTH
Every One in Washington is En-.
quiring About it.
HE SAYS 1T is MOST EXCELLENT.
This Anxiety is Occasioned Because the Logic
ofEvenus has Made him the Leader Of
the Republican Party.
Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures DIsnatcb

| Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch. !
NEW YORK, Nov. PA World special
from Washington says: ga very common
topic of conversation just now in this citv
is the health of James Gillespie Blaine
Everybody recognizes the fact that if the
Republican party were called upon to name
presidential candidate this week, that
man would be James g. Blaine. Natural
ly, therefore, the physical condition of Mr..
Blame IS of interest to no end of people.
having twice denied himself to his party
as presidential candidate, it is understood
chiefly on account of his health, people are
naturally inquiring, evil Mr.. Blaine be
physically able to make the race in 1922
"a gentleman who saw and talked with
Mr. Blaine for several hours recently says
upon this point: Mr.. Blaine is lust as
Well as any man of sixty years could hope
TO De. He has not accumulated flesh, and
IN this respect is all the better. His eve is
GEAR, MS voice strong, and ne is as agile in
MS movements as youth of twenty. How
much fatigue he could bear were he sud
denly called upon is only matter of con-
lecture. His mental activity is something
OF the burdens and vicissitudes of public
lie. Always keen and incisive, his mind is
now ouoyant and omnivorous in it's grasp.
NO one can converse with, him five min
utes without being impressed with the
tenaclty of his memory, and above all is
ms active interest in all matters of life.
Mr.. Blaine says he sleeps about as well as
ever ne old, and his appetite is good He
does great deal of work, but he does il
methodically.'
In conversation with the gentlemen re
Ierred TO- Mr.. Blaine is quoted as saving:
ADMIT that at the close of the campaign
OF 1854 L was pretty well tagged out 1
mad performed an enormous amount of
work. l had my book, Twenty Years in
Congress-, on my hands, and it was neces-
sary | should complete it. This I did.
Then l saw the need of rest. | conld have
gone on working and vexing myself TO the
END, but having passed the age of forty, l
became something of d physician Abso-
lutte rest and recreation were what [ pre-
scribed for myself. l went to Europe. and
no American ever visited Europe more ra
tlonauy, am sure. l did not fatigue nv
sell with travel | stopped in cheerful
hotels, when l moved it was en- uoit,tre
Thus l saw all the beauties of the country
and outdoor life l was healty and vigorous
Alter all my European rest l came mere in
as good physical condition as any man of
my years, and propose to keep it by simply
observing an Intelligent regimen. So long
as live shall take at least three months
absolute rest and omen air life in the sum
mer.' TO the visitor quoted above Mr..
Blame said upon parting: Let me give
you grip with this left hand of mine,
Then followed blacksmith-liKe grip from
both left and right, firm and PROLONGED
Esculepius himself would have given a
clean bill of health on either of those com
pressions. There are a good many hand
shakes in you yet, Mr. Blaine said the
visitor.
And so there are, and no friend or ad.
mlrer OF the statesman of the state depart
ment need concern himself about the
health of the man who is again made bv
the logic of events the active leader of
the Republican party