Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-07-03
OKING, LIVE FOREVER
30 SAID HIS SUBJECTS. AND THE KING
BEGAN TO DO 1T.

secrets OF Longevity which WIN Enable
Common Men to Follow the Example OF
the. Monarch-Mr. william Kinnear's
Dietary Doctrine.
"And they said, % king, live for
Nerl' Whereupon the king Immediately
began to live forever" This fragment
If history, preserved in the chorus of a
.ollege song. used TO be regarded in
EARLIER days rather as n singular instance
IF royal condesccnsion than as encour-
aging any personal efforts Mt immortal
lty. In one of MIR. Andrew Lang's sto-
lies q young Oxonian, when confronted
with n ghostly coach and six, tried to
ceassure himself by the reflection that a
ghost would hardly put himself to all
this trouble and expense for n mere UNI
iergraduate. All undergraduates are
not gifted with the same praisewOrthy
humility, but without any undue diff
dence most of US tacitly felt that the
honors of Immortality We're probably be-
yond our reach However, for this later
and more fortunate generation Mr.. Will
liam Kinnear has come to the rescue. 1t
seems that he had been maturing n little
plan for living 200 years in average good
health.
The announcement is attractive, but
VIC must confess that, ON investigation,
it seems to Us full of disappointment 1t
is possible that Mr.. Kinnear's method
Of life may promote good health, but so
far as comfort is concerned it fails dis
mally. This is an objection common to
nearly every system which aims Mt max
ing man something more than human
The element of asceticism in our nature
is almost rs strong rs our selfishnessl In
every age there have been people who
cherish the conviction that they can but
attain spiritual excellence by making
themselves necdlcssly uncomfortable.
Mr.. Kinncar is comparatively moder-
ate in his promises, but his regime, like
the rest of them, is branded with the
cursr of discomfort. 1t seems that the
chief enemies to vitality are the air we
breathe, tho water we drink and the
bread and meat We eat all of which ap-
parently conSpire to form earthly de-
posts of n gelatinous and fibrinous char
acter in our unfortunate system These
deposits, which mostly consist of carbo-
nate and phosphate of lime, interfere
with the physical functions generally,
and in particular impede the proper re-
pair of tissue
Moreover, it is to their constant and
increasing presence that the stiffness and
dryEess characteristic of senility are
due. Hence if we wish to prolong life
and avert, in part mt any rate, the in
conyeniences of old age we should min
imize these earthly deposits. Unfortu-
natcly we cannot dispense entirely with
air, water and food, but we can combat
the mischievous effect of atmospheric
oxygen by the use of phOsphoric acid.
By drinking distilled water only we es-
cape the calcareous salts which ordinary
water would deposit in our tissues, and
by avoiding everything fit to eat we
} may render our daily food comparatively
innocuous. Practically his recommend
atoms come to this: Abstain from
bread, meat and heterogeneous food gen.
orally and live upon apples and distilled
water favored with phosphoric acid.
Such n menu is high p.ice to pay
for longevity, and after an orgie con-
Quoted ON these lines for two centuries
the prusclyte would probably be able to
give an emphatic answer to the ques-
ton. lis life worth hving:" The mon
otony of the regime is alone sufficient
to make it distasteful, but the objections
: to it strike somewhat deeper than this
Nitrogen possesses to a peculiar extent
the power of holding other chemical
substances in combination. This Is at
once the cause of the stability, rs it is
called, of nitrogen compounds and of
the tremendous power which many Of
, them display. Nitrogen enters largely
into the composition of muscular tissue
or flesh and thereby becomes the chief
|, source of physical energy. To diminish
the supply of nitrogen as Mr.. Kinnear
proposes would almost inevitably pro-
duce n chronic lassitude. Nor is this the
only danger, for the patient this really
seems the most appropriate world, cut
of from his usual heterogeneous diet,
. would be tempted to supply the want
by a larger consumption of the vege-
e table foods left open to him and thereby
to overcharge his system with carbon
A dietary doctrine which proclaims
that lin the necessary elements of nu-
triton Turk the enemies of life" may
/, fairly be regarded with preliminary sus-
r picion. But even with this PROPOSE
ton accepted il is surely fsal to Mr..
Kinnear's claim that to follow his sys-
tom is to live according to nature in the
: highest and finest sense. II nature ju-
n diciously doctors our necessary foods
= with slow poison, il is clear that she
g cannot intend us to cumber the earth
i too long. If she does not Mr.. Kinnear' s
e theory collapses. But whether his dag
. nosis be right or wrong il seems fairly
II clear that nature does not look with IA
II vor on an abnormal length of life. Ac-
J. cording to Professor weissman nature
only faynrs the survival of the indivi-
dual so far as it is necessary TO provide
= for the pcrpetuation Of the species Tbs
moment this point Is passed the forces
of nature turn against him The specie:
can prohsEiy take care of itself physio
logically~sithou any persuasion ON oul
part, but the social and political moon
veniences which attend any wide sue
cess of Mr. Kinnear's system cannot b
contemplated without dismay. Thes.
are sufficiently obvious to any unpreJu
diced mind and form far too delicate 1
topic for discussion here. On one point
however, we must confess to what W,
trust is n pardonable curiosity. How
old Is Mr.. William Kinnear:-Londol
World.
Wrecked by Ineendiarie.-
PINE BLUFF. Ark. July 3.-Two mile
south Of New Louisville n freight ON III
St Louis Southwestern railruad wen
through n high trestle. the engine, CO
bOose and - cars falling Engineer Fel
guson and Head brakeman Richnrfso
were killed outright and Fireman ONE
fatally scaldctl The trestle had been fire
and burned nearly through.
Convicted . Pension Agent
TRENTON, July 3-Jessc Hcnsee. the He
boken pension agent indicted for extor'
ing Illegal fees was tried I'm the Unite