The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-06
WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY p?

In the coming time" said famous
English poet "a man or woman eighty or
one huncred years old will be more
beautiful than the youth or matter
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 feeble bodies. On the contrary they
will have perfect hearing, clear eyesight,
sound teeth, elastic step, and mental vigor."
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. 4 man Is of no real value
until he is past fifty and gained control of
his passions and acquired some practical
wisdom. After that ne ought to have from
nifty to seyenty-tiye working years before
him. Who SO dies short of one hundred
Char violel ce) dies of his own folly or that
OF his ancestors. Oneschief thing, however,
we must learn. What is it? Take an
illustratlOn-such as we see multitudes of
on every side.
Mr.. Richard Legatte of New Bolingbroke,
near Boston, Lincolnshire, is man now
well-known and highly respected in his
district. In the spring of 1891 he had an
attack OF influenza from which he never
fully ~ecuperated The severe symptoms
passed away, OF course, but he remained
weak. No doubt fool would have built him
up, provided he could have eaten and
digesCed it. Yet hare 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 it actually pro-
duced pain and distress in the sides, chest,
and stomach.
Then again-which is a common eI-
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 mouthful.
Nothing could come of this but increasing
weakness and it wasn't long before it was
all he could do to summon 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 we should
expect. If the services of a learned medi-
| cal man are ever needed they must be in
such 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 thai
his medicines are doing no good, because
he expects to be paid for them; and then
there is his professional pride. besides.
However he finally said, VII my medi-
cines fail to make you better it is owing to
your age" That idea was plain as pixies
taft, and if the patient had never got any
better afterwards, why who could dispute
what the doctor said? Nobody. of course
1t would look j1st as though Mr.. Leggate
were really going to pieces from old age.
But something subsequently happened
which spoils that easy theory of the case.
What it was he tells US in a letter dated
February Sd, 1893.
After doctoring several months with
out receiving any benefit, l determ.ned to
try Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup. | got
bottle from Mr.. G. H Hansen. Cheml. #.
New BolingbroSe. After taking he syrug
for week was much better. had GOOD
appetite, and what | ate digested ard
strengthened me; and by the time had
taken two bottles | was tceH aud strono as
erer. You may publish this statement if
you think proper. (Sisned) Richard Leg
gate"
So 1t proved, after all, that MIR. Lepgate
was not suffering from old age Cat serenity
Nonsense!b but from Indigestion and dys-
pepsia. When Mother Siegel's great dis
covery routed that, he felt swell and strong
as ever"
Now for the moral: 1t is not Father Time
who mows people down thus early in life;
1t Is the Demon of Dyspepsia. Keep him
away, and-barring accidents may
live century.