The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-30
DAILY SUN BATHS,
Ne Says, viii Enable Him to Live
200 Years-Is Now 113.

EOO rcdTS-tS NOW Ilos
! 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 gTeat-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 q lad of 10. His companions are
Eardon Thompson, of Santa Rosa, and
Elmer Thompson, of the same town.
These gentlemen are Mr.. Thompson's
grandsons. One is 81 years old and the
other So 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
ifornian is wealthy having made a
large fortune in California gold prop
critics in the early days. He IS Wei ed.
ucated, having been trained rs doe
tor in Edinburgh. from which 81 Y Ee
took his departure for the u.t"l
States with several 9th RS noA III
dead, in 1909
1t is not stretching the rur Z"
sert that Mr.. ThompS Z apre l3r'
65 years of age. He II I'll
as a pine, has square hn 81 $50,
his face is full and ~. nd
nothing in the mans 5-a Gt
his great age, and ne lts i.'
tie of Bass ale with s.rt
ance Later he eXprJS-r b 80 IL
that it was about break 50 d 49,
one of the dutiful grand DIS
patched to order beers e3>.
"None Of your gbletS. low Ia cd
man shouted after him Il WIN q Tor
terhouse cooked rare wi h Il baked o.
tato and some coffee
'The fact Of the matte is, i'll Mr..
Thompson, as he Ii a c.aar a-d uif"d
1t with evident enjoymen that / nm
so old and so healthy b cau,e ave
discovered the secret if not of eternal
life, at least, of living a coupe 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 ould
be averted. My plan is simple enough.
In the first place, | refuse TO be 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 or
more. Since l ceased active business
about 60 years ago | 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 | 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
/ began this practice of sun bathing.
For cold weather l have a glass house
at the top of my residence, comforta.
bly, fixed up, and there take my bath
through the windows when compelled
80 to do.
There is no crankiness in my meth.
od' concluded the aged traveller 1T 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 hui
man body is more beneficial to the
health of that body than a whole dis
pensary full of drugs. Chicago Rec
ord.
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