Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
WE SHOULD BE CENTENNARIANs.


said to the correspondent:
WE SHOULD BE CENTENNARIANs.
Everybody, under ordinary circum-
stances, ought to live to be 100 years old.
AS it is, people live from to 15 years
longer than their forefathers did. They
have learned how to eat and drink; how to
keep their homes ventilated and their
sewers drained and how to generally take
better care of themselves. Still they 90 not
live anything like as long as they ought to,
because they do not yet live as they ought
to. They have too much to do, too much to
think about, and too much care to bear
Many are very much distressed as younger
men to know how they are going to make
sure of a living. By and by when their
reputation has grown they are driven to
death with the work forced upon them. If
I had lived anywhere near right in the
earlier part of my professional career, be-
lieve my lie would have been prolonged be-
yond, q century. I never used to know
what it was to be tired, hungry or sleepy
When the decline begins the face loses its
color; the plump, vigorous look of the skin
vanishes and lassitude takes the place of
elasticity.
"Open CRATES are far preferable to any
other means of heating a house, for they
help ventilation which is an important fac
tor in the prolongation of life never al
low furnace to be lighted in my house ex-
cept when there is danger of the water pipes
freezing up. One of the greatest dangers to
human life is
THE CANDY SHOP
which destroys the stomachs of children
Candy, in fact, does almost as much to de-
stroy the stomach as alcohol. A child with
its stomach full of candy has no desire to
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dren ought to be sustained by nutritious
food while they are growing. Adults are
| likewise harmed if they go about muching
candy. Sugar is a necessary ingredient of
| the body, but it should be taken in proper
quantities and at proper times, and not in
discriminatory. Tobacco is decidedly in
| furious when used to excess the same as
| liquor. A mild cigar smoked a ter dinner,
however, has a soothing effect and the
smoker sustains less injury from it than he
wound from rushing off to work on full
| stomach.
"No injury will result from sleeping after
meal. Old people are benefited by a nap
| after eating. Actors almost invariably take
| supper before going to bed and they are
| healthy set of men. Animals afford an ex-
ample. Feed two dogs and let one curl up
before the fire while the other is taken out to
hunt rabbits. Then on the return from the
hunting expedition kill both dogs. The
stomach of the one that has been sleeping
will be clean while the food in the stomach
of the other will be found undigested. The
dog that has been hunting has expended all
his energies in the chase and the food has
had no chance to digest.
THE EFFECT OF WHISKY.
"Whisky cannot be considered injurious
under all circumstances. There are times
&c af,,I a1 al
and quinine, but it is not beneficial when
used as beverage. 1 am not certain that
water is not as harmful as whisky. Ice
water, which people generally gulp down In
unlimited quantities, paralyzes the nerves
of the stomach, and is one of the greatest
causes OF dyspepsia in this country. People
should drink water at Its natural tempera-
ture. Boiling water drank an hour or so
before meals is valuable aid to digestion.
The majority of people eat more than they
ought and they also eat too last. In eating
it is not question how much person can
devour, but how much he can digest. Some
people are better off on two meals day
than on three.
Turning night into day-that is, work
ing at night and sleeping in the day time
does not mean that the person who does it is
doomed to an early grave. Men who work
nights may live to agood old age. William
Cullen was accustomed to working nights
and attained ripe old age. Still con-
sIder that people who work during the day
and sleep during the night are better off.
One thing is certain, person must have
sleep at some time whether it is at night or
during the day.
THE AMOUNT OF SLEEP.
''The average person ought to have eight
hours sleep. When I was young I read
that Napoleon only took four hours sleep
in "a. l thought that no great man needed
more than four hours, SO that was all 1 took.
I found out the error of that idea later.
When persons system PLAYS out no elixir
of lie is going to rejuvenate him. About
all the elixir of life amounted to was to
Tighten the pockets of old men and fool
them into the belief that they could be made
young again. Nothing in the way of medi-
cine or incubation will restore vitality.
Roast beef, beesteak, out door exer-
else, freedom from care and proper
amount of rest will do more to prolong
lie than anything else. The cure of hydro
phobia by the Pasteur method is pretty we'll
established, and the valueaof the transfu-
sion Of blood is demonstrated beyond doubt.