Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-02

L would say be temperate In habits, use no
spirituous liquors before you are fifty and
drink no wines except q. meals. Keep the
joints well oiled with exercise, marry as soon
AZ you can after twenty years of age, don't
overwork and don't worry, and If you have
decent conscience and fair constitution there
is no reason why you should not reach four
score"
Justice Macarthur lie one Of the retired jus
tees of the Supreme Court Of the District ut
Washington. He has led an sctive and hard
working life, and nova seventy-seven, he does
not look as old as many a man of sixty. He 10
tall, erect and fine looking. There are but few
wrinkles In his handsome face. and his hair,
though gray. is thick and silky. He has
wonderfully clear complexion and his blue eyes
are bright and full OF life He is q fine talker,
when he was twenty years younger. met him
ut Saratoga and asked him his recipe for lon
gevity.
81 am" said he, naturally of q strong con-
stitution, and i attribute my almost perfect
physical and mental condition largely to a very
good set Of digestive organs I can eat any
thing and drink anything, and am one Of the
rev men Of whom il may be said that they do
not know that they have a stomach. ] have
been SO throughout my life and attribute my
continuing in this condition in that such eK-
cesses as 1 have committed in the past have
always made mp for by rest and bathing Ii /
am mp late at night l take pains to sleep late
the next morning; and if am at q big dinner
see that my pores are thoroughly open the
next day, so that any deleterious matters that
may have taken into my system may pass away.
don't believe In asceticism nor in the NORTH
cation Of the flesh by rigid rules of diet, by
uniting the appetite and by denying ones self
that good may come. / believe that man
should take as much pleasure ont of life as he
can consistently with his work as he goes along.
me desire for enjoyment is natural and it
should be gratihed as much as hunger and
thirst The very fact that it exists is an evil
1ence that nature intended 1t to be gratitied.
buf, OF course. every man must be a law unto
himself In such matters. and that which suits
one may not suit another"
noT-An BATHS
You were speaking Of bathing, Justice Mac
Arthur. What kind Of bathing do you mean?'
Il am great believer in hot-air baths" re-
piled the justice, "and keep myself in good
condition by one Of these every week. think
the Turkish baths are good. but my favorite
bath is the alcohol hot-air bath, which / take
regularly when / am at home. When / am
away take the hot-water bath, making the
water red hot and soaking myself in it until
the perspiration flows freely out Of every pore
OF my skin. / don't believe in the use of
much soap in bathing and think that the pores
OF the skin are not helped by the alkali that il
taken into them. Our skin is, you know, made
up Of thousands Of little pores, through which
q large part Of the waste of the system is car
ried of. These pores relieve every part of the
body, stomach. liver kidneys and every por-
ton Of the system. Each pore has little oil
duct in il to protect ii from injury and to keep
it in good condition. 1t is delicate piece of
machinery and do not believe this oil should
be secured out with soap, nor should the skin
be scratched and roughened with q flesh
brush"