The times., 1899-03-25
MEETING OF LoNa-L1FE CLUB.
Variety of Views Concerning the
Way to Secure Longevity.

Way to Secure Longevity.
New York. March 24.-Future centenari-
ans filed the Astor gallery of the Waldorf
Astoria last evening. All of them were
busily counting up how they would occupy
themselves from twenty-five to ssventy-five
years from now. for they belonged to the
Hundred Year Club, which bars not age
sex, or nationality.
There Is wide diversity of views as to
how to pass the century mark. There were
speakers who said eschew meat, and 9TH
ers gave elaborate instructions concerning
the way to eat the proper kind of flesh.
There was a vegetarian with a long beard,
who said to. feed upon fruits, vegetables,
and grain II you would live to be 100, and
a long haired scientific farmer told of the
terrors and the bugs which lurked in the
rosy checked apple and the seductive pear.
Don't slaughter animals" said the
vegetarian Presbyterian. Eat flesh of
animals properly slain,'' advised the Rev.
DR.. Silverman, an eminent Hebrew rabbi
About the only food and drink concern
ing which there was nothing very objec-
tionable said was water. The collation.,
therefore. consisted of cold water.
Walter S. Logan, president of the board
Of trustees, presided Mr. Logan said that
the object of the club was to make life
worth living. He wished to have clean
streets, and men and women with clean
hues to walk upon them.
i've heard" he continued. "of a suicide
club in session. They do not have to go to
McGurk's to see IL. 1t meets in the fash
ionable hotel and in the club. II is not the
good things of life which cause men 20
commit suicide. but the misuse OF the
good things. A hot canvassback duck
and quart OF champagne are just as good
as anything else when taken at a civilized
hour
DR.. H. w. Wiley, a chemist of the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washington
d. c., remarked that the time was not far
distant when infants would be fed on food
suitable to prepare them for the profess
sions for which they were destined
DIR. George w. Grover announced that
the club would shortly found psychologist
cal department, with complete laboratory
Letters of encouragement had been receiv-
ed from Prof James, of Harvard: Prof
Cattell. of Columbia; the younger DR..
Charcot, OF Paris, and DR.. Num- of Ber-
lin.
DIR. j. II. Kellogg of Battle Creek. Mich.
commented sorrowfully upon mental de-
generacy. He said that fifty years ago
there were only 500 cases of insanity to
the million and now there were eighteen
hundred From these he figured that in
265 years every man on earth would be two
and one-half times crazy. He observed that
men would continue to die young il they
did not find out the divine way of life and
| stopped filling up the cup of iniquity
Men need but one thing in order TO live
100 years. and that is life. Let them eat
we'll drink WE'LL breathe well. The best
food is that which contains the most life;
the best water that which is simply water;
the best air that air having for its essen
tial element air without contamination
There are men who believe that water may
be made more viralizing by the use of for
eign matter. Hence beer. wine, tea coffee,
| and other poisonous decoctions supposed to
| cheer. The food which God made for man
| to eat was fruit. nuts and grain. Civilized
man has gone SO far away from his God
| that he chooses death rather than life"