The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-10

~ Oh tne pe3S8uIKy, ana you Know
Sandy feeds on oatmeal twelve months Of
the year. The things were subject Of
considerable ridicule, but the people appre-
ciated them, and whenever they used them
they said Is they rubbed: God bless the
Duke of Montrose., When come to eat
ing, / take . cup Of hot water and sip
it. It should not be drunk. That is
the only water l taste during the day ex-
cept glass of water at the beginning Of
dinner. All the water / drink is boiled.
Then comes porridge and fruit, the former
with milk and sugar. Then some brown
bread and butter, little fish and . little
bit of chop or steak, and then I wind up
with two boiled eggs. have eaten from
two to four boiled eggs every day Of the
year for thirty years, and when / speak in
the evening / always eat two boiled eggs
before so doing. For lunch / eat few
biscuits, little cheese, herring and shaw
ings of dried beef.
For dinner at o'clock simple soup,
one course Of meat with one or two Of
vegetables, green things In spring, and
above all, onions. / am very strong on
onions. believe it to be the most valua-
Bile vegetable that enters the stomach.
take boiling milk before going to bed,
which is the last thing. and enables me to
sleep well. My digestion is as perfect as
when q boy, and think that without a
doubt, any man, by adopting the same
methods that did, can achieve the same
results"
SUPREME JUSTICE BRADLEY on LONGEVITY.
DR.. Milburn here attributes his good
health and working powers to his habits of
life. Many of our spryest old men say that
habits are little, but the inherited consti-
tuition is everything. Take, for in
Justice Joseph P. Bradley, of the
United States supreme court, who
has, for the last twenty years,
been one of the most learned men on the
supreme bench, and who now does as
much work as any man in public life.
He was born in 1918, was 70 years old
last March, and his working hours are
from ten to twelve daily. There is no
brighter mind in the country than his,
and his range of knowledge is as wide as
that of any other man on the bench.
met him at Deer Park during the past
summer and chatted with him as to his
health. Said he: II have been q worker
all my life, and during great part of my
career have put in from twelve to sixteen
hours out of the twenty-four. 1t is my
habit now when the court is in session at
Washington to put in four hours on my
cases before | go to the capitol. | rise
early, take my breakfast, and work from
until IL o'clock. The court meets at II
o'clock, and | sit there and pass upon
cases until O'Clock. I then return to
my house upon the adjournment of the
session of the court, and take a couple of
hours relaxation until dinner time. Some
times take nap. After dinner usually
spend the evening in my library, where
work until get sleepy. / vary my work
with philosophical or mathematical calcu-
lations, and sometimes take rest by read
ing good novel. am very fond OF good
fiction, and have natural tendency to-
wards mathematics.
THE CONSTITUTION EvERyTHIsG.
II attribute my health and working
powers" said the judge, ito an excellent
constitution, added to q moderate degree
of temperance in eating and drinking.
My father was q farmer, and he married q
farmers daughter. He was Is years old
when he was married, and my mother was
IL, and was the first child and appar-
emily inherited the vigor of both parents.
/ was brought up on farm and spent a
part OF every year upon one until was
twenty. After I went to college spent
my vacations in teaching, and also did
considerable surveying. While I was at
fG shsf WORKED oo hord oay ana
early life, and especially during .
period of my practice Of the law.
was very ambitious to succeed
and when had important cases / often
sat up until morning studying them. One
night remember well, and it was this ex-
perience that led me to be moderate. I
had q very knotty problem to solve, and
worked away far into the night. Towards
morning was shocked to ind my mind
all at once refuse to act. l could not think
at all upon the case, and feared that 1
had paralysis of the brain, or at least the
first symptoms of it. l took q wet towel
and laid It over my head, and went to bed
and slept about three hours. When I
awoke found my mind all right. but de-
cided not to risk such thing again. I
have since been more temperate in my
work, and am regular in my working
hours.
AS TO SMOKING AND DRINKING.
81 have never patronized the doctors to
any extent" continued Judge Bradley,
and / have been well the greater part of
my life. When I was about 20 years old
was troubled with bilious attacks These
continued number of years and then left
me. / don't know that / did anything to
drive them away, and have no particular
rules of diet. l have smoked during .
part of my life, and I smoke now.
l find no trouble, however, in
stopping, and throughout life I have
smoked for two or three years
it up again, and again stopping. When I
break off smoking, however, I become a
tee-totaler as to tobacco for the time. l
also take little whisky and water oc-
easionally and l have never found it to
disagree with me. Good wines in modera-
tion Seem to suit some men, but they are
too acid for my stomach, and l do not
drink them. As to what l eat, am not
particular save that | choose such things
do not.
You ask my advice to young men who
wish to make the best of their working
powers. I can only advise moderation and
temperance. The young man who is mod
crate in everything, leading temperate
life, sustaining from worry, and keeping
his working apparatus in good order, is
bound to outlast him who does not. pro-
yided the conditions of the two are the
same. | believe that marriage condnces
TO length of years. The married man
keeps better hours, and his life is natural
one"
HOW HogATIo KING KEEPS YOUNG.
Another Washington septuagenarian,
almost as old, and fully as active, both
physically and mentally as Judge Bradley,
is the Hon. Horatio King, who was post
master general in Buchanan's cabinet and
who now, generation later, is as fond of
Washington literary and social life as he
was then. / met him on the street the
other day, and my first question was as to
his habits of exercise. He said:
Il am great believer IN walking. and I
think one OF the secrets of my good health
is IN that have never owned a horse or
carriage. | walk until l get tired, and
then if have not reached my destination
of life, don't really know that have any