The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
DAILY SUN BATHS,
He Says, Wt1l Enable Him to Live
200 Years-ls Now 113.

2OO 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
few scattered gray wisps but he is
as active as a kitten and bright-eyed
as a lad of 10. His companions are
Nardon Thompson, of Santa Rosa, and
Elmer Thompson, of the same town.
These gentlemen are Mr. ThOmpson's
grandsons. One is 62 years old aud the
other 80. They say the old man can
run a mile in six minutes fiat on
sandy road and that he expects to live
another hundred years. The aged Cal
ifornlan 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 doe
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
60 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 bot
tie of Bass ale with great nonchal.
ance. Later he expressed the opinion
that 1t was about breakfast time and
one of the dutiful grandsons was dis
patched to order n beefsteak.
None of your giblets, now" the old
man shouted after him. 81 want por.
terhouse cooked rare, with a baked po-
tato and some coffee"
THE fact of the matter is" said Mr..
Thompson, as he lit n cigar and puffed
1t with evident enjoyment, that | am
so old and so healthy because ! have
discovered the secret If not of eternal
life, nt least, of living u 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 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, | refuse TO he wor
ried about anything | 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 OF
more. Since l ceased active business
about GO years ago | have never let
n day pass when the sun shone with.
out barring my body to its rays for one
or two hours.
son my place in California | have
an inclosed space where | am free to
20 naked withous 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
| began this practice of sun bathing
For cold weather | have Il 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 "It /,
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 II bare hu
man body is more beneficial to tho
health of that body than whole dis
pensary full of drugs. Chicago Rec
ord.