Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-06-25
TO LIVE A HUNDRED YEARS
Scientists Declare Length of Life Should not Be Less than a
 Century

Again we have the word of a scien- tist for it that man should live a hun dred years, and that so far as he falls short of the century mark he has been cut off before his time.
 This statement, so often made by sci entifc men, is repeated by Sir James Critchtcn- Browne, well known London institution.
 'In my opinion," says Sir James, "every man is entitled to his century, and every woman to a century and a little more, for women live longer than men. Every child should be brought up impressed with the obligation of living to be a hundred, and should be taught how to avoid the irregularities that tend to frustrate that laudable ambition.
 While hygienists agree that the aver age duration of human life is unneces- sarily short, there is the greatest diver sity of opinion among them concerning the best methods of prolonging life. The late Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey, for instance, of Meadville, Pa, attained following on both sides of the Allan tic by advocating the fasting cure for | disease and the no breakfast plan for maintaining the health. Dr. Dewey con l tended that in case of sickness the di- gestive organs are in no condition to perform their natural functions; that the introduction of food into the stomach at such time merely results in the creation of poisons which retard the work of nature; and that feeding the sick Ito keep up their strength v | is, therefore, not only a delusion, but almost crime.
 But no one who has ever consciously | gone about it to solve the problem of | how to live long has ever met with the success that came to Luigi Cornaro, a l Venetian of the fifteenth century, who was a physical wreck at forty, yet lived to one hundred and three. Cornaro E story, of course, has been told and re- told with more or less accuracy for more than three hundred years. but il never becomes old, because in so many respects it is still abreast or, indeed ahead of the best hygienic thought of the day.
 Cornaro was wealthy, and until hC was forty lived the life of the rich Ital
 ians of his period. He ate too much drank too much and slept too little
 with the result that in his prime he wa
 suffering intensely from various all
 ments and seemed about to die. At thii
 point his physician told him that hi
 only chance lay in the adoption of th'
 temperate and orderly life,' To us'
 his own words. Cornaro adopted thu
 suggestion, and at the age of eighty
 three wrote a pamphlet telling about it
 At eighty-six he wrote another and stil
 another at ninetyfve.
 Nothing more vital exists in all tn
 history of hygienic effort than thi year -to-year narrative of an intelligen veteran, noting down the means b.
 which he had built up his body an kept it alive. His first step was to con fine himself to such foods as invalid might eat, and to take these in smal ) quantities. Incredible as the fact ma seem, he says that at the end of
 year he found himself cured. ,l Then he began to experiment to fin out what kind of food agreed with hin , as he wished to enlarge his diet. o !, testing the proverb that "whateve , tastes good will nourish and etrengtl , en, v he quickly discovered that the pa : ate is a poor guide. Cold wine, col
 melons, pastries, pork, and many othC z things tasted good to him, but distres ' ed his stomach. Gradually he elimil 9 ated from his fare everything that di 5 agreed with him, and he always mad n it a point to leave the table with h 5 appetite both for food and drink nc 4 quite satisfed.-Scrap Book.
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