The Lambertville record., 1900-08-22
DAILY SUN BATHS,
He Says, Will Enable Him to Live
100 Years-ls Now 1t3.

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Andrew Joseph Thompson of Santa
Rosa. Cal, aged ll3 years, arrived
here on his way To Weyerhauser,
Wis, where he is going to attend the
marriage of his reatgranddaughter,
Irene Tibbils. who lives near that
town
Mr.. Thompson has false teeth and
his hair is gone. with the exception Of
few scattered gray wlsps, but he Is
as active as n 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.. Th0mpson's
grandsons. One is 62 years old and the
other 80 They say the old man can
run mile in six minutes Hat on
sandy road and that he expects to live
another hundred years The aged Cal.
ifornian is wealthy. having made IA
large fortune In California gold prop.
critics in the early days He is we'll ed.
ucated, having been trained as Il 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
% years Of age He stands as straight
as a pine. has square shoulders, and
his face is full and round There il
nothing in the mans walk to suggest
his great age, and he tossed off bot.
tie OF Bass ale with great nonchal.
ancp, Later he expressed the opinion
that ii was about breakfast time and
one of the dutiful grandsons was dis
patched TO order heefsteak
None of your giblets, now" the old
man shouted after him. Il want por
terhouse cooked rare. with baked po
tato and some coffee
u he fact of the matter Is lid Mr..
Thompson. rs he lit IA cigar aud pulfed
1t with evident enjoyment that | am
SO old and 50 healthy because lave
discovered the secret II not OF eternal
life, at least. of living n couple Of hun
dred years in comparative comfort. In
my opinion the dread of death is " hat
causes death In innumernblp cases or
course do not mean that organic dis.
ease can be overcome by the means
| have adopted, hut | 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 be wor.
ried about anything. / never did wOr-
ry. 1t must, of course. be taken into
consideration that | have really moth.
ing In particular tu 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 / huve 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 have glass hOuse
ut 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 cranklness In my meth
Cd concluded the aged traveller at 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 a bare hu-
man body Is more beneficial TO the
health Of that body than whole dis.
pensary fun Of drugs. Chicago Rec
ord