Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-30
DAILY SUN BATHS,
He Says, viii Enable Him to Live
200 Years-ls Now 113.

200 Years-ls Now 113.
Andrew Joseph Thompson. of Santa
Rosa. Cal, aged 113 years, arrived
here on his way to Weyerhauser,
Wis, where he is going to attend the
marriage of his great-granddaughte
Irene Tibbils, who lives near that
town.
Mr. Thompson has false teeth and
his hair is gone, with the exception of
a few scattered gray wisps, but he is
as active as a kitten and bright-eyed
as lad Of Is. His companions are
Vardon Thompson, Of Santa Rosa, and
Elmer Thompson, of the same town.
These gentlemen are Mr.. Thompsons
grandsons. One is 62 years old and the
other 80. They say the old man can
run mile in six minutes fiat on a
sandy road and that he expects to live
another hundred years. The aged Cal
ifornian is wealthy, having made
large fortune in California gold prop.
critics in the early days. He is well ed.
ucated, having been trained as a doc
tor in Edinburgh, from which city he
took his departure for the United
States with several others, now all
dead, in 1909.
1t is not stretching the truth to as.
sert that Mr.. Thompson appears about
65 years of age. He stands as straight
as pine, has square shoulders, and
his face is full and round. There is
nothing in the mans walk to suggest
his great age, and he tossed off a bot
tie Of Bass ale with great nonchal.
ance. Later lie expressed the opinion
that it was about breakfast time and
one of the dutiful grandsons was dis
patched to order beefsteak.
None of your giblets, now" the Old
man shouted after him. 81 want por.
terhouse cooked rare, with baked po-
tato and some coffee"
'The fact of the matter is" s lid Mr..
Thompson, as he lit n cigar and puffed
ii with evident enjoyment. that am
so old and so healthy because l have
discovered the secret II not of eternal
life. at least, of living a couple of hun
dred years In comparative comfort. In
my opinion the dread of death is what
causes death in innumerable cases OF
course do not mean that organic dis
ease can be overcome by the means
| have adopted, but l do think that all
the deaths that occur from what we
characterize as general collapse could
be averted. My plan is simple enough.
In the first place, l refuse to be wor.
ried about anything l never did wor-
ry. 1t must of course, be taken into
consideration that | have really moth.
ing In particular to worry about, and
that there has been nothing to cause
me to worry for the last 60 years or
more. Since | ceased active business
about GO years ago l have never let
day pass when the sun shone with
out barring my body to its rays for one
or two hours.
ION my place in California l have
an inclosed space where | am free to
go naked without being seen by any
human eye. The sun sinks into my
bones and gives them new life. MY
skin is as brown as an Indians all
over. 1t has been that way ever since
l began this practice of sun bathing.
For cold weather have a glass house
at the top of my residence comforta-
bly, fixed up, and there take my bath
through the windows when compelled
so to do.
There is no crankiness in my meth
od' concluded the aged traveller ut is
simply giving the Lords own medi
cine chance to do its work. and
can assure you that one hour of bright
sunlight pouring down on bare hu
man body is more beneficial to the
health Of that body than whole dis.
pensary full Of drugs."-Chicago Rec
ord.