The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-07-14
EDlsoN's HEALTH NOTIONS.
than this.

He Does About as lie PIeases and Keeps
Wen at It.
They have "a little cot at the laboratory
where Edison sleeps when he spends "a
night at the laboratory, which is not more
than 10 minutes walk from his handsome
house i'm Llcwolyn park Upon this cot
he viii snatch am hour and a halrs sleep
no night while waiting for the worlmCn
to- finish am armaDure or to bore a hole i'm
some experimental steel His meals dur
ing such times are sent down from the
house, and he may eat them working at
the bench OF standing up OF forget them
altogether
This may go ON for days at time, and
Edison may not even take the trouble to
go to the cot, but may turn in on a heap Of
sawdust or the soft side of a board and
snatch a few minutes of sleep Mr. Edi
son long ago got weary of people who went
up to him and said, You will ruin your
health Physicians gazed at him with
a long face and told him if he kept this up
his days were numbered
'They wanted me to take drugs, said
be to the reporter. but l am my own doc
tor
He has a poor opinion of doctors who
write prescriptions designed to insert
strange drugs into a man Mr.. Edison,
who is blessed with a most rugged consti.
tuition and an elastic nature, has a curl.
Gus theory upon which he doctors him
self. " He holds that nature somehow
balances things. When he has deprived
himself Of sleep for several nights in sue
cession, he takes long sleep to make up
for it. When he has been eating meat, and
his liver or his kidneys trouble him, he
suddenly turns vegetarian. THAT brings
me around all right, said he, land then
it, after time, anything goes wrong l be
gin to eat meat again, when everything is
justified" "
Il eat what l like, says Mr.. Edison
1t appears to agree with him. One of the
| things he likes is pie He drinks very
| little and yet is far from being a total alb.
stuiner when l was in France, they
told me that l must drink wine, or I'd get
| the typhoid fever. So ! began to drink
| their wine, but after awhile my hands be
| gan to shake guess they only throw in
the typhoid fever to advertise their wine
Tea and coffee and water are the best
| drinks for me.
| Mr.. Edison expects TO live to be 9C
years of age. MY father went to Europ,
at the age Of "a, " said he, when il
Paris his companion, young fellow O
65, proposed going out to Versailles Tht
old gentleman declined to ride, and they
walked out and back. My grandfather
lived to be l03, despite the horrible infu
ence of tobacco and think my chances
are good for 90, barring accidents" Mr.
| Edisons reference to the horrible influ
ence Of tobacco is what he calls his 'lit
tie joke" He is an inveterate smoke
| himself
"How many cigars do you smokeW
From 10 to 20 u day, " was the reply,
"Strong onesi"
THE strongest can get, he answered
Doesn't it hurt your nervesf"
''No. l never saw a sign of it, If
thought it hurt me, I'd stop it."
Mr. Edison was asked what he did 70
amusement, and he replied that he liked
good story and was fond Of the theateT
On account Of being slightly deaf, how
ever, he cannot hear all the actors sa
and is therefore more devoted to ligh
opera. He says he can get down in tn
front row and hear all the musio.-Ney
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