The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-11
famous Old men and On< Cell e Secret 81 ron0 Life

what I lived on, /. told them love and
neW-laid eggs. Now [ say soup and
! sympathy, or cocoa and comfort; for 1
! have not eaten any solid food for a few
( years past. But l was never a, club
man, and all that club life means. OF
course, [ went freely about among my
friends, and did not shut myself up, !
hermit fashion; but did not go in for
that rapid rate of living and about
| town mode of life which wears men out /
sooner than anything. Then L was /
never smoker. Once, it is true, |
smoked half cigar, but that expert |
ence was quite enough for me. have
i not repeated it since
COIMENDS A DAILY TUB.
''I was singing last night for a char +
liable concert Sims Reeves told the
interviewer, and at the end some one
/ came to me and said, MIR. Reeves, I
heard you sing in public fifty years
ago. It seems long time to look back
on-ffty years a. public singer.
THE question as to how long life is |
attained is not to be answered in a mo-
ment Mr.. Reeves continued. But
believe the great cause, not only in my
own case, but in nearly every instance, |
is constitution. The man who has a
good, sound constitution, and no func- |
tional disorders, is able to bear many |
strains, and even excuses, that would |
quickly kill another. If you look at the /
lives of old men, you will see that not
all We're able to live quiet regular e71-
lStences, but they were able to ward off
possible evil effects by their own in
herent strength
Coming to exact rules for maintain
ing long life, regularity and moderation
are great things. l have found the
greatest benefit from the daily tub, and
from thoroughly good rubbing down
| dow Ac 70, lar rO1Ir
harmful that is not the thing to hurt
any man."
JULES VERNE GIVES ADVICE.
From two veteran authors character
istic letters We're received. Jules Verne.
who still rises at 5 in the morning and
works steadily until II, although it is
more than forty-five years since his
first story was published, wrote:
Il can but reply to the various ques-
tons put to me: Work and temperance.
There is the whole motto of life;
work always, be temperate in all
things. And, above all, do not over
indulge in sleep. Obey the precept of
the school of Salerno, which runs, if l
am not mistaken, thus:
" Six hours of sleep suffice for old and
young,
Seven for the lazy, eight we grant to
none
JULES VERNE"
Sir John Mowbray, father of the
house of commons, says that he at
tributes his longevity mainly to hered-
ity.
My father was 49, my grandfather
"a. My mother, when she died, was
close upon &c. I had a great grand
mother who lived to SO. Three genera
lions of our family kept golden we'd
diiags in Sc, "a and 49, AS regards my
own habits moderation in eating and
drinking has been everything. take
: little meat and no beer or tobacco. L
have always been used to wine in a
reasonable quantity, and lately mainly
; whisky. In younger days, L remained
at the house of commons as long as it
sat. I never do this now, and rarely
return after dinner l am one of those
, who require a great deal of sleep, and
am always ready to take it. was
great walker up to a very recent date"
Congressman Galusha A. Grow, who
occupies similar position in the house
of representatives, gives very similar
: testimony. Inherited health and a boy
: hood spent largely in the open air, he
says, gave me a fund of strength and
yiSor to begin with. 1 have been care
full not to draw too heavily against this
/ valuable bank account. AS for habits
Y of eating, regularity is the great thing
to be observed. 1 do know that tobacco
5 works either for or against a man; it
2 is a matter of personal liking. 1 don't
r believe that work, merely work, is any
l foe to long years-rather an aid L
/ should say
: SIR CHARLES GAVAN.
Y On the contrary Sir Charles Gavan
D Duffy is an example of a man handi-
capped in youth by delicate health who
has preserved his life for more than
eighty years by taking care Of it. He
writes from Nice:
Il am now in my eighty-tllird year,
and 1 attribute my prolonged life to a
careful and systematic method of liv-
ing. In boyhood and youth, / suffered
habitually from dyspepsia, and in early
manhood | was so engrossed in political
work that L gave no attention to the
state of my health.
About my thirty-siX year a. great
change came I read in Addison's Spec
tator a paper on Louis Cornaro, who
preached with singular force and per-
suasion the necessity of obtaining con-
slant good health to an advanced age,
by a strict and habitual moderation in
eating and drinking. Addison describes
Cornaro as an Italian gentleman of
,undoubted credit, who lived to be a
hundred years of age by pursuing the
practice he recommended. [ studied
this little book with great satisfaction,
and it was probably about the same
|
works, graphic homily on the SUI
preme advantages of health. Health
he says, is the soul which animates
all the enjoyments of life, which fade
and are tasteless without it. Without
| health, a man StarYeS at the best
tables, makes faces at the most deli
cate Wines is old and dull among the
most sparkling beauties and poor and
wretched in the midst of the most
splendid treasures, music grows harsh
and conversation disagreeable, riches
are useless and honors and attendants
cumbersome / determined to spare no
pains to become well and vigorous.
From that time [ rarely or never ate
to fulness or drank to elevation. L
have also avoided, as far as was COM
patible with the business of life, to
study or sit UP past midnight, or in
later years past o'clock, and l have
always been an early riser. [ have
lived as much as possible in the open
air, and have read for instruction or
amusement, but still more for neces-
sary. rest or relaxation, some hours
every day. l have never suffered from
rheumatism, govt, sciatica, or any
other torturing malady, and this i'm
munity is, [ think, attributable to my
mode of life. I may add that 1 have
never paraded any system, or troubled
my friends outside my own household
about what l was to eat or drink, but
simply refrained wherever it was nee
essary. [ do not consult doctor on
an average more than once year, and
altogether refrained from taking medi-
cine till after my eighteenth year, when