Lewiston inter-state news. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1905-1906, 1905-12-12
how TO LIVE
TO REACH 70
MARX Twain Tells How He Reachec
Three Score and Ten.

MARX Twain Tells How He Reached
Three Score and Ten.
New York, Dec. 11-"How to get TO
be 70 and not mind it.
- That was the subject Of the address
delivered Monday night by Mark Twain
a. the dinner given in his honor at Del
n,onico's by olonel George Harvey,
nres.dent of Harper & Bros. The din
ner signalized the worldrenowned
hurnorist's SEVENTEEN birthday.
The guests were almost exclusively
writer's of imaginative literature.
About ITO authors were present, nearly
] half of them being women. 1t was the
f1rst time in the history of the country
that large literary dinner was attend
ed by members of both sexes and the
| experiment proved delightful success.
Nearly every well-known writer in
AAmerica greeted the celebrated humor-
6st either personally or by letter or
poem.
During the dinner a cOngratulatOry
cable message was received from Eng
land signed by forty of the most dis
. tinguished British statesmen and men
Of letters.
Colonel Harvey was the POSTMASTER.
Mark Twain SAID IN part:
sThe sevetnieth birthday! 1t Is the
time of life when you arrive at a new
and awful dignity; when you throw
YOU for generation and stand I'M
afraid and unabashed upon your seven
terraced summit and look down and
teach-unrebuked. You can tell the
world how you got there. 1t is what
/ they all do.
Mark .Twain's Way.
II have achieved my seventy years
IN the usual way; by sticking strictly
to scheme OF life which would kill
anybody else.
1--WE have no permanent habits until
we are forty Then they begin to pet
rify, then business begins. Since forty
] have been regular about going to bed
ana getting up-and that Is one of the
main things have made 1t rule to
20 to bed when there was not anybody
LETT to sit up with: and have made 1t
rule to get up when I had to. This
has resulted in an answering regular
ity OF irregularity. It has saved me
sound, but 1t would injure another per-
son.
IN the matter Of diet-which is an
other main thing-I have been persist
entity strict In sticking to the things
which did not agree with me until one
or the other Of US got the best of It..
Until lately got the best Of It myself.
But last spring I stopped frolicking
with mince pie after midnight; up to
then I had always believed 1t was not
loaded. For thirty years have taken
coftee ana bread at in the morning.
ana no bite or sup till 1880 in the even
Ing, Eleven hours. That Is all right
Tor me, and il wholesome, because !
have never had headache in my lift,
hut headachv people would not reach
seventy comfortably by that road, and
they would be foolish to try It.
Never Smokes in Sleep.
81 II have made It a rule never to smoke
more than one cigar at "a time. ! have
no ether restriction AZ regards smok-
ms do not know just when began
10 smoke: only know that It was in
my fathers lifetime and that 1t was
discreet. He passed from this life early
IN 1A47, when was a shade past IL:
ever since then I have smoked publicly.
A N example to Others and not that I
always been my rule never to smoke
when asleep, and never to refrain when
MHake. It - good rule-I mean for
hut some Of you know quite well
net .anaWer for everybody
- {6 IT. ssxantx
r ii / haves 10
M ylI the ni6&13
~, $1,000 ~
6H6If n % Old Ind lpus
- that II / should break II Shohld
451& - you, sir would feel. II you
Sld lose the only moral moral you've
4fmeaning the chairman). II you've
~ svnokfnu M rhar0oa
NH II grant, here. that have stopped
king. now and then. for few
NGd1ths ct q time. But It was not on
polnoiple---it was only to show OF. 1t
was to pulverixe those critics who said
Woa = slave to my habits and could
not 6reak my bonds.
X Al Tor drinking, have no rule about
that when others drink like to help:
Otherwise remain dry. by habit and
proference. Tho dryness does not hurt
me hut It could easily hurt you be-
cause you are different You let II
0roe Lived on Medicine.
since I was years old have sell
06in taken q dose OF medicine and have
eeld0mer needed one. But up to
! lived exclusively on allouathic medi-
+ cinea, Not that / needed them. for
don't think did; It was for economy
NY father took drug store for debt
md it made cod liver oil cheaper than
the other breakfast foods.
~ have lived . severely moral life
But e would be mistake for other
{ people to try that, or for me to recon-
s1Aend Il. Very few would succeed. You
1eyo 20 have . perfectly colossal stock
~ mosals. ana you can't get them on a
1naxxan. You have to have the whole
3 thing and put them in your box. Morals
1 ASe m acQuirement-like music like q
1oEol&n language like pietv. poker
paxn1ysis-no man IL born with them
Morals are Of inestimable value fol
i every man n born crammed with sir
: microbes and the only thing that car
exttrpate these sin microbes Is morals
Nov you take a sterilized Christian
mean, You take the sterilized Chris
y 41an for there's only one-dear sir.
y1ohf you would not look at me like
1 three score years and ten?
Four Invitation hOnors me and