The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-04

Abroad We're first given to us. On De
cember 9th he was the guest of honor
at II dinner in New York, to celebrate
his SEVENTEEN birthday. The guests
were confined closely to writer's
of imaginative literature. and about
lIo authors We're present, nearly haif
of them women. Every guest received
as souvenir bust of Mark Twain,
half-life size. Naturally Mr.. Clemens
was the principal speaker: he took as
his text. How to get to be seventy
and not mind it." He said
"rhe seventeen birthday. 1t 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 for generation.
and stand unafraid and nabashed
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. You shall never
get tired of telling by what delicate
arts and deep moralities you climbed
up to that great place. You will eX-
plain the process and dwell on the par
ticulars with senile rapture. l have
been anxious to explain my own sys-
TEN for long time, and now at last
have the right.
Regularly Irregular.
81 have achieved my seventy years
in the usual way-by sticking strictly
to scheme of my life which would
kill anybody else. 1t sounds like an eN'
aggeration. but that is really the com
mon rule for attaining to old age.
We have no permanent habits until
we are forty Then they begin to har-
den. presently they petrify, then busl-
ness begins. Since forty | have been
regular about going to bed and getting
m and that is one of the main things.
have made it rule to go to bed
when there wasn't anybody left TO SIT
nm with, and l have made it a rule to
get I'D when had to. This has result
ed in an unswerving regularity of II
regularity. :
.In the matter of diet-which Is
another main thing-I have been per
sistently strict in sticking to the things
which didn't agree with me untll one
or the other of us got the best of H.
Until lately got the best of it myself.
But last spring l stopped frohckihE
with mince pie after midnight; mp 10
then | had always believed 1t Whsn
loaded. For thirty years l have taken
coffee and bread at s in the inorliin-
and no bite nor sup until $50 III the
evening. q,
II have made it a rule never 10
smoke more than one cigar at Il 'iihe'
have no other restriction as rsaiu
smoking. l do not know just Wheh
rac,n to smoke; | only know that II
,ras in nv fathers lifetime, ana lnHt
was indiscreet. He passed from l",s
life early in 1S47. when was Il s,"u s
mast eleven: ever since 'heh 80
smoked publicly. As an example
others and not that l care Tor in'u',
,tion myself. it has always pee" in5
rulc never to smoke when asi'ti''
r,vcr 10 refrain when awake. II.
"As for drinking. ! have no
obout that When the others u 'uG
like to help: otherwise l remain a. Az
Inv habit and preference, nls .,,i5
moss does not hurt me, ou' II ,,r,
easily hurt you, because W"
direrent. You let it alone.
, First Standard Oil Trust.
.St,co was seven years old l nav
IL, t,l,ou Il dose of medicine ""'
-, stiu more seldom needed 'l,
m,,, ,,n To seven lived exclusively va
'ua,ntbic medicines. Not that h'''
.,,om for don't think dld; pU' IT
p,' Gu y" ,nr economy. My father TOOK Il
-. store for a debt and II uIa,'
- all rheaper than the othcr vi I,'. "a
-. eds | was the first St'lu'l''," "
nn m trust had IT all by the ''nny .m,.
49,, 1,rv store was exhausted
nna,,h n was established. and theIS u.S .,s
; nsysr peeu much the matter WIN '
II have never taken any eASi .a J's,, ,,,.yer
cont sleeping and resting, ana ! 4i'' -