The evening times., 1899-03-24
MEETING OF LoNG-LIFE CLUB.
Variety of Views Concerning the
Way to Secure Longevity.

Variety OF views concerning the
Way to Secure Longevity.
New York, March 24.-Future centenari-
ans filled 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 seventy-fve
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 If you would live to be 100 and
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 sain," advised the Rev.
DIR. 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 suicide
club in session. They do not have to go to
McGurk's to see it. 1t meets in the fash
ionable hotel and in the club. 1t is not the
good things of life which cause men 10
commit suicide but the misuse of the
good things. hot canvassback duck
and quart of champagne are just as good
as anything else when taken at a civilized
hour"
DIR. H w. Wiley, a chemist of the De-
| partment of Agriculture at Washington,
ID. 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.
DR.. George w. Grover announced that
the club would shortly found a psychology
cal department, with complete laboratory
| Letters of encouragement had been receiv-
ed from Prof James, of Harvard; Prof
| Cattell of Columbia; the yodnger Dr.
| Charcot, of Paris, and DR.. Mum, of Ber-
! lin.
DR. ]. H. kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich,
commented sorrowfully upon mental de-
generacy. He said that fifty years ago
there were only 600 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 if 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
| WELL drink well, 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 yitaliZing 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