The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-13
WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY?
House adjourned at noon.

I'm 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 mairen
of twenty, as The rip 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. cIea eyesight,
sound teeth, elastic STEP and mental yigOr."
Does this sound absurd ana impossible
Why should it? 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-tiv1 working years before
him. Who so dies short of one hundred
| thar viOleDce) dies of his own folly or that
OF his ancestors. Oneschief 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 farmer
we'll known and highly respected in his
district. In the spring of 1891 he had an
attack of influenza from which he never
fully r.cuperated. The severe symptoms
passed away, OF course, but he remained
weak. No doubt food would have built him
up, provided he could have eaten and
digesGed it. Yet here was the trouble. his
appetite was poor, and what little he to, k,
as matter of Necessity rather than OF
| relish, seemed to act wrong with him. In
| stead OF giving him strength it actually pro-
duced pain and distress in the sides, chest,
and stomach.
Then again-which is a common ex-
perience-he would feel craving for some
thing to eat yet on sitting down to a 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
weakness and it wasn't long before it was
all he Could do to shannon strength TO walk
about. As for working on his farm, that
to be sure, was not to be thought Of he
had doctor attending him, as " should
expect. If the services of a learned medi-
al man are ever needed they must be in
such case-when nature seems to be all
broken up, and the machinery runs slow, as
cur 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
/ cHOuSu uoCtoi uOcou ike 70 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, ali my medi-
cines fail to make you better il is owing to
your age" That idea was plain as pixies
taft ana if the patient had never got any
better afterwards, why who could dispute
hat the d.ctor saidP Nobody, of course.
1t would look st as though Mr.. Leegate
We're really going to pieces from old age.
But meth ny subsequently happened
which spoIls that easy theory of the case.
What il was he tells US in a letter dated
February 3D.. 1898.
After doctoring several months with
out receiving any benefit, l determined to
try Mother Siegels Curative Syrup. l got
a bottle from Mr.. G. ri Hansen, bemist.
New BolingorOze. After taking the syrup.
for week 4 was much better. 1 had good
appetite, and what / ate digested and
strengthened me; and by the time had
taken two bottles was tceH aud strong as
erer. You may publish this statement if
you think proper. (Signed) Richard Leg
gate"
So 1t proved, after all, that Mr.. Leeeate
was not suffering from Old age tat Serenity!
Nonsense!l but from indigestion and dys-
pepsia. When Mother Siegel's great dis
covery routed that, he felt "weIl and strong
as ever"
Now for the moral: 1t ia not Father Time
VINO mows people down thus early in life;
II Is the Demon of Dyspepsia. Keep him
away, and barring accidents -you NAV
live century.