The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-20
WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY?

"In the coming time" said a famous
English poet "a man or woman eighty or
one hundred years old will be more
beautiful than the youth or maiuen
of twenty, as The ripe fruit is more
beautiful and fragrant than the green.
These ripe men and women will have no
wrinkles on the brow, no grey hair, no bent
and eeble bodies. On the contrary they
will have perfect hearing clea e, esight,
sound teeth, elastic step, and mental ,igur. 4"
Does this sound absurd and impossible
| Why should it2 People over one hundred
years old are frequently met with in these
days, as they have been as far as human
records go back. A man Is of no real value
until he is past fifty and gained control of
his passions and acquired some practical
wisdom. After that lie ought to have from
| fifty to seventy-five working years before
him. Who so dies short OF one hundred
(bar violeDce) dies of his own folly or that
of his ancestors. Oneichief thing, however,
we must learn. What is it? Take an
illustration-such as We see multitudes of
on every side.
Mr.. Richard Legatte OF New Bolingbroke,
near Boston, Lincolnshire. is man now
somewhat over seventy. He is a farmer,
well-known and highly respected in his
district. In the spring of 1891 he had an
attack of influenza from which he never
July rcuperated The severe symptoms
passed away, OF course, but he remained
weak. No doubt fool would have built him
up, provided he could havr eaten and
digesCed it. Yet here was the trouble, his
appetite was poor, and what little he took,
as matter of necessity rather than of
relish, seemed to act wrong with him. In
stead of giving him strength il actually pro-
duced pain and distress in the sides chest,
and stomach.
Then again-which is common ex-
periencs-he would feel craving for some-
thing to eat yet on sitting down to meal,
in the hope to enjoy it, the stomach would
suddenly rebel against the proceeding, and
he would turn from the table without hav-
ing swallowed n mouthful.
Nothing could come of this but increasing
weakuess and it wasn't long before it was
all he could do to 4 u ILnon strength 10 walk
about. As for working on his farm that
to be sure, was not TO be thought Of he
had doctor attending him, as We should
expect. II the services of "A learned medi-
cal man are ever needed they must be in
such a case-when nature seems to be all
broken up, and the machinery runs slow, as
our family clocks do when we have for
gotten to wind them at the usual hour.
Well. Mr.. Leggate took the prescribed
medicines, but got no better. He asked the
doctor why that was and he appeared to be
puzzled for an answer at first. Naturally
enough doctor doesn't like to admit that
his medicines are doing no good, because
he expects to be paid Tor them; and then
there is his professional pride, besides.
However he finally said, III my medi-
cines fail TO make you better il is owing to
your age" That idea was plain as a pixies
taft, ana if the patient had never got any
better afterwards. why who could dispute
what the doctor said? Nobody, of course
1t would look at as though Mr.. Leggate
were really going to pieces from old age.
But something subsequently happened
which spolls that easy theory of the case |
What il was he tells us in a letter dated
February Sd, 1898.
After doctoring several months with |
out receiving any benefit, l determined to
try Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup. ! got
a bottle from Mr.. G II Hansen, chemist, |
New Bolingbroke. After II king the syrup, |
for week 4 was much better. had good |
appetite, and what | ate digested and |
strengthened me; and by the time had
taken two bottles | was cell aud strong as |
erer. You may publish this statement if |
you think proper. tSigned) Richard Leg |
gate"
So it proved, after all, that Mr.. Leggate |
was not suffering from old age tat serenity, |
but from indigestion and dys- |
pepsia. When Mother oiege's great dIs- |
oovery routed that, he felt well and strong |
as ever"
Now for the moral: 1t is not Father Time |
who mows people down TINS early in life;
1t is the Demon of Dyspepsia Keep EFni |
away, and barring accidents you may |
ave d cehlHIf. -s. =.