The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-06
MARK TWAIN'S
10TH BIRTHDAY
Gentle Humorist Given a Dinner by
Editor of Harper's.
NOTED AUTHORS PRESENT
CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH BY
GUEST OF HONOR.

al W YORK, Dee. 5-Mark Twain
IN tonight was the guest OF honor
at a dinner at Delmonlco's, Civ
en- by George Harvey in honor
Of the SEVENTEEN birthday OF the hui
morist. The guests were confined
closely 20 writer's Of imaginative hter-
allure, and about i5J authors We're pres
ent, nearly half OF them women. Ilnr-
ing the dinner congra tulatory cable
message was received from England,
signed by forty of the most distinguished
writer's there including Thomas Hardy.
George Meredith Alfred Austin. Arthur
Balfour Rudyard I\ipling Anthony
Hope, Sir Gilbert Parker. Sir i. Conan
Doyle, Ian AfacLareu, Mrs. Humphrey
Ward and Israel ZangWill. The princi-
pal souvenir which each guest received
was q bust Of Mark Twain. half life size.
President Roosevelt and J. Chandler
Harris sent letters. and among those who
spoke or presented poems Were W. d
Howells. Richard Watson Glider, DR..
Henry VanDyke. Brander Matthews, Or.
Weir Mitchell KATE Douglas Nlggln,
john Kendrlck Bangs, Amelia Barr.
Hamilton ". M1bie, Caroline Wells. Try
ing Bachelor. Andrew Carnegie. G. W.
Gable, HOpkinsOn Smith and Agnes Rep
plier.
/ Twain's Humorous Speech.
When Mark Twain arose 10 speak he
tf-Nlu not proceed lOl several minutes on
account of the cheers that were given
in greeting. He said:
THE SEVENTEEN birthday-it is the
time Of life when you arrive AT new
and awful dignity. when you may throw
aside the decent reserves which have
oppressed You Tor a generation, and
stand uuafraid and unabashed upon your
seven erraced summit and look down
and teach. unrebuked. You can tell the
world how you got there. 1t is what
Of telling by what delicate arts and deep
moraiittes YOU climbed up to lhat great
place. You viii explain the process and
dwell on The particulars with senile rap
ture. I have been anxious to- explain my
own system this long time, and now at
last i have the right.
How to Reach Great Age.
4 have achieved my 20 years in the
usual Way-by sticking strictly TO a
scheme of my life which would kill any
body else. Il sounds like an eNaggera-
tion. but that is really the common rule
FOR attaining old age. We have no per-
mahent habits until re are forty. Then
they begin 10 harden, presently they pet
rlfy, then business begins. Since forty
/ have been regular about going TO bed
and getting upland that is one Of the
main things. / have made ii Il rule 10
90 10 bed when there was not anybody I
LETT 10 sit mp with. and ! have made il
rule 10 get up when 1 had 10. This
has resulted in an answering regular
ity of uregularity.
In the matter OF diet which is an
other main thing l have been persist /
entity strict In sticking to the things
yFhioh-did agFee with ne. -Irntff-C1fa or
the other OF MS got the best of il Until
lately got the hest of il myself But !
last spring I stopped frOlicking with
mlnce pie after midnight. Up to then
l had always believed it wasn't loaded
a inf
and bread at : in the morning and no
bite or sup TIL l:5O in the evening.
One Cigar at Time.
81 have made it a rule never TO smoke
more than one cigar at a time. ! have
no other restriction as regards smok-
AS for drinking. 7 have no rule about
that When the others drink ! ike 70
help; otherwise l remain dry by habit
and preference. This dryuess does not
hurt me. but il could easily hurt you.
because you are different You let il
alone.
Since I was years old I have lelm
taken "a dose Of medicine and have sell
dom needed one. But TO seven [ lived
exclusively on alloD1thic medicines. Ny
father took a drug store for a debt, and
l. made cod liver oil cheaper than the
other breakfast foods. I was the first
standard oil trust. / had it all BY
the Time the drug store was exhausted
my ucaltn was established ana tnefe mas
never been much the matter with me
since.
Never Take Exercise.
Il have never taken any exercise ex-
cept sleeping and resting. and / never
intend 10 take any. Exercise is loatn-
some. And il cannot be of any bane-
TIT when you are tired. / was always
tired
II have lived a severely moral life
But IL would be q mistake for other peo-
pie 10 try IL or fer me TO recommend
Ia. Very few would succeed. You have
10 have perfectly colossal stock of
morals, and YOU cannot get them on
margin: YOU have 10 have the whole
thing. and put them in Your box. Morals
are an conference.-the music, like q