The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-02

The disease reached so acute a stage
at thai time that the multi millionaire
was obliged to give up all his business
activities His weight fell or nearly
forty pounds II was found that money
could not buy relief and that he must
work for it literally with the sweat OF
his brow.
He retired to his palace at larry
town. overlooking the Hudson river
dressed in a suit of overalls and Joined
every morning and worked till sunset.
His energy would have secured him q
position anywhere for 81 a day.
Is Getting Well.
Gradually the color came back to his
face, the pains and nervousness dimin-
iShed and he gained in weight After
nearly four months of this heroic treat
ment Mr. Rockefeller was again able
to return TO his office and assume his
many responsibilities.
This programme is repeated every
summer. The life of a laborer for four
months a year enables him to barely
put through the winter. Every sum-
mer he is obliged to become a IabOrer
again for his health's sake. That is all
the fun he gets out of his vacation.
1t is another curious paradox that. the
richest man in America must walk
despite all his horses. while the poor
est man with nickel may ride. Mr.
Rockefeller'S town house is on Fifty
fourth street near Fifth avenue 1t is
so essential that he should have reg
ular exercise that even in the winter
months he almost invaria bly walks
from his house to Twentv-third street
before entering his luxurious carriage
which carries him to his office in lower
Broadway. If the weather permits he
often walks the entire distance
Mr. Rockefeller may often be seen in
the stormiest weather plodding his way
down town, while his most poorly paid
clerk is comfortably seated in a warm
car rushing past him. His mangnifi-
cent stables and strings of horses and
luxurious carriageS-he has three auto
mobiles alOne-cannot avail 10 relieve
him Of a fraction of his long cold
morning walk
The Popular Conception.
The classical myth of Tantalus. who
while starving, saw visions of food be-
fore him which disappeared when he
reached for it, is more than realized in
the case of the Standard Oil king. Mr.
Rockefeller may develop an appetite
but all his millions cannot enable him
TO crafty it and enjoy a good digeS-
ton In the popular imagination the
millionaire'S table is crowded with the
choicest foods and rarest wines. Mr.
Rockefeller sits down each day to a
simple bowl of crackers and SKINNED
DaIleV
water. AS a special luxury. when his
stomach is unusually strong he may
eat brown or graham bread. but never
with butter. Any fatty substance
causes him agOnies of indigestion. This
simple meal must be eaten very slow
~. To deVOur even a soda cracker
hastily would be disastrous
''Delicacies of the season. are unat-
tainable luXurieS to the great million
aire. Even the fruits and berries of
summer are forbidden 1t is a strange
example of the irony of fate that the
man who could have the first fruit of
every kind brought from the ends of
the earth must particularly avoid
them, since the earliest fruit is most
dangerous for him. The only fruit al
lowed him is in the height of the sea-
son, and even then he must confine
himself to the juice, which is carefully
strained.
The lightest tobacco impairs Mr.
ROckefelIers digestion and heart ac-
ton, undoing the good work of DAYS
and weeks of hard work in the fields
So he may not court my Lady Nico-
tine, who carries solace to the pauper
and even the prisoner.
He is said to be very fond of sailing
on the water. Dyspepsia makes such
a pastime impossible for him.