The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17
SECRET OF LONG LIE
Gable to New York Herald.3

Gable to New York Herald.)
London, Dec. 3.-The secret of long
! ;fe is a question which the editor of a
weekly paper called Young Man has
! been asking a number of well known
septuagenariaDs and octogenarians,
and the result OF his inquiries is pub
! liShed in this weeks issue
Lord Avebury, who, Notwithstanding
| his busy life in the realms of COM
| nlerce, science, literature and politics,
| replies that he is still hale at 20. His
answer is written in a clear. steady
| handwriting, a facsimile of which is
reproduced.
He thus defines the secret of long
! life;
''I believe the secret of health is to
| eat little, drink little be as much in the
open air as possible keep the mind free
| from anxiety and the conscience from
remorse."
| Frederick Harrison, chairman of the
English positivist committee. who long
since passed his three score years and
ten. has been a great traveller in his
day, and Notwithstanding his years
| still takes pleasure in long walks. He
| gives the following advice:
Touch not tobacco, spirits nor any
unclean thing. Rise from every meal
=,
sleep nightly seven hours, reverence
all to whom reverence is due. Be con-
tent with what you have
To look at DR.. Haig Brown, master
of Charterhouse, no one would ever
think he had attained the age of 81,
and he attributes his long life and free
dom from sickness to the spare diet in
which he always INDUCED, freedom
from financial care and abundant work
with little leisure.
Sir Edward Fry, who has escaped
after long service in the stuffy law
courts, is now living at the age of II
near Bristol, makes a brief but signif-
cant reply in Latin, which may be
translated mot too much of anything"
Justin Mccarthy, who is "A, says:
''1 he best way to grow old is, accord
ing TO my experience, to keep UP
steady, regular work, have as much
open air physical exercise as possible,
and think as little as may be about the
advance of years.
William Thomson, lord Kelvin, the
first scientist TO be made a peer. who
is now IN his S7th year. was installed
chancellor Of Glasgow. university ON
Tuesday. last. It is remarked of him
that even at that good old age the bril-
liant intellect which has done mankind
such infinite service for sixty years is
as keen. as ever.
The imagination which has pioneered
so many epoch making discoveries is
still as vivid as in the early days, when
young man he solved the problem of
rendering the mariners compass i'm
mune from the distracting influences
of terrestrial magnetism Wealthy,
famous. or prodigious learning, he still
is one Of the most modest and simple
minded of men, with a gentle face
wearing the most pleasant of smiles, |
framed in snow white hair.
Queen Alexandra was so years old on
Thursday. May she live until she |
looks it, was the neat way IN which |
one congratulatory message was ex- |
pressed The passing years have lain !
their hands lightly on England's |!
queen.
When she met Queen Amelia of Por-
tugal on her arrival at Windsor station |
a couple of weeks ago a diplomat ia !
miliar with all the courts of the world |
declared:
There you see the two most beauti- |
full queens in Europe" And" re-
marked one who overheard him, 81
don't know which looks the younger of
the two
The queen passed her birthday at
Sandringham, where in the evening
there was a dinner party, at which
some thirty-five sat down. The birth
lay cake was in three tiers, beautiful
~ ornamented, mounted on globes of
gold fishes Beside the members of the
royal family the guests included the
iowager Duchess of Manchester, Earl
Howe, Earl and Countess de Grey, Lord
Herbert Van Tempest, the prime min
ster. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Sassoon and
Countess Airlie.
Lord Strathcona, who is in his S5th
year, had not taken a midday lunch
-or sixty years. For sixty years it
has been my custom to go without
unch," remarked Lord Strathcona,
but that doesn't mean L have not
taken midday meal. but as a rule
AXE only two meals day-breakfast
and dinner. Of course, If there is any
,ne whom I particularly wish to meet
I am prepared to take lunch with him.
Il should not like to recommend that
very man dispense with lunch. Every
hing depends on the individual Some
nay be better with lunch, others with
)ut lunch. l don't know that this Gus
on of dispensing with lunch has made
ne more vigorous than other men. If
am more vigorous it may be due to
he invigorating climate of northern
Canada.
Il see no harm in smoking little, but
believe in temperance-yes temper
lnce in all things, whether food, drink
" tobacco. At the same time, in my
pinion, there are none more intemper-
tie than those who insist upon total
ibstinence."