New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-08
OLDEST GUEST, % YEARS.
Hundred Year Club Holds annual
Dinenr.

OlnenT.
The Hundred Year Club which was organized in
1873, which has members in all parts of the
United States. had it's second annual dinner at the
Hotel Majestic last evening. There were about
seventy-fve members present, and at the tables
persons Of various ages, the majority how
ever. having gray locks.
The Oldest person present was DR.. John r. Rice,
who has passed his ninety-third year. He appeared
to be hale and hearty. Others were Alfred Speers'
eishty-six years old; DR.. J. N. Farrar, who is
about seventy years old, and Captain G. w. Smith,
sixty-two years old who is the president and one
of the organizers of the club.
President Smith acted postmaster and after
the dinner. which consisted of only plain food,
had been disposed Of announced that Mrs Ann
Belts, who is in her 10lst year, was i'll and
was unable to be present. Mr. Speers was then
called on, and in a brief speech said that his
mother and Mrs. Belts were twin sisters.
DR.. Robert Walter the next speaker, and he
said in part
The great truth that vitality the force of life, is
inheritance from previous life, and not trans
mutation from some other force, has practical
bearing the subjects of health and disease that
Transmitted product and not a derived principle,
OF the schools are jusuTied. on the contrary, let
ton, and not of transmutauo; that is, inherent IN
living things, and not product even IN life; that
& iI ofe ro9oS Which b nor life to- give
iaborious processes of research in our Exact Sci
ence of Health, that all those substances which.
when mlnistered TO man, apparently increase his
vital forces, heal his diseases and preserve his
Just what they to give.
The next speaker was Dr. w. R. c. Latson. who
had a topic, The Conservation of Vitality"
DR.. Latson compared the human body to a steam
engine. He said that just the value of the
steam engine depends the amount OF energy it
can produce from its coal and water and air. the
working efficiency of the man depends the
amount Of energy he produce from the food
and air and water with which he is provided. THAT
is to say the term vitality applied to the hu-
man body. corresponds exactly TO the term horse
power as applied to the steam engine"
Mrs. B. de Rivera said in part:
In business there is a method adopted which re-
suits IN doing certain amount Of work without
seems 10 run on n 'go-as-yol-Dlea SCI plan I find
one for the waste of vitality domestic life
stages above barbarsm Woman is still the bar
barlan as she works 10 supply her individual wants
to gratify her individual desires. without any re-
gard to the laws governing division of labor; she
fo Ma nd n foT some M0ses 10 ie1a her tofth
tried and failed often as it has been tried be-
cause OF me non.appllcaton or business methods
solve this problem of the cooperation in the house
M and looking G broa t the the woma6 Shall al
see new heaven and a new earth.
Bolton Halls topic was Vitality and Business
Lie he Sald. among Other Things:
We know that most Of the diseases which affect
the rest from abnormal habits. AS l speak
know that what say will suggest to most minds
that believe in tenement house reform and sim
pie living So do but these are mere remedies
not preVenuOnS. We must abolish the tenement
house-'reform it off the face of the earth" just
merely relieve it. How snail do this? How shall
we restore the natural conditions under which
tbs table comes from The and ms 5wiIn 70 on
he a n OT1 hen to
cure freedom from anxiety as to our support,
drives men, as with goad, we must open the land
We must stop that monopoly which deprives men
OF the place and the means to work and crowds
them into sites of tenement houses.
In speaking on The Conservation of Vitality in
the Emotional Life" Mrs. Almon Hensley said
fear and worry were slow poisons to the nervous
system, Slapped the vitality. lined the face pre-
maturely gradually deteriorated nerve force, pre-
vented intellectual growth and inhabited the real
spirituality. She added
I do wish to be misunderstood or to hurt a1v
ones feelings. There are. of course, normal, self
manifest But IN the majority Of cases the CON
OF 1t are the result of highly nervous excitation
which is in itself the result of physical weakness
in it's beginning. purely egotisticai feeling de-
sire for physical possession the qualification of
through the cultivation of the Imagination and the
of the man for the woman the yearning seff-sac-
rifeing devotion of the woman mar for the man.
tonal life is to sleep and TO sleep and TO sleep.
II women, who are perhaps greatest
sufferers. would only learn to give up enough
time from their numerous duties. many of which
self imposed and unnecessary, to sleep, there
would be fewer sanatoriums fattening on our in
capacity Women expend in various ways more
emotional nerve force than men do. They show
signs of age more quickly as result. Every
woman wants to retain her beauty and still live
her own peculiar life of emotions, whatever they
may be. Then let her sleep nine hours every night,
and one IL possible in the middle of the day To
sum up in word the whole of my thought
the secret of the conservation nervous energy in
the emotional life is temperance, spelled with a
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