Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-09
WUS PLANTO LIVE 200 YEARS
Chinese Diplomat Explains How i
Can Be Done.
EASY ENOUGH TO TRY IF YOU LIKE
cot HIS First Idea when ne Gave Tn
Flesh Food IN order Z" Cure
Himself from Rheu-
matism.

fears old is perfectly simple and there Is
no secret about Il. Since so much publicity
has been given to this matter Mr.. WI
has received no end Of letters from per
SONS in every part Of the United States.
Minister WI was asked TO tell The Bee
something in detail about his new manner
OF living. whereby any man, be he Chris
tian or Confuscian. rich or poor, may live
and feel young at $50 or so.
Certainty" said MIR. WI, his eyes
frightened with enthusiasm. "Of course
I'm not selfish. I expect to live @' years
I wish others to live as we'll as myself. II
will be a pleasure TO induce others to adopt
my plan"
Mr.. WI fastened to give to an American
due credit for starting HIM on the road
70 an in~determinate longevity, and he
dIstinctly says that there Is nothing
mysteriousIy oriental about his amisble
doctrine. which for the hackneyed ard
somewhat cornwall while we live let us
live" substitutes live as long as you like.
The minister was seated in the drawing
room OF the legation, at Nineteenth and
u streets, whittier he had proceeded from
the dining room after his first meal Of the
day Cabout noon and where he expressed
his cheerful readiness to tell all about 1t.
Cure for rheumatism.
'-Three wears ago" he began, when ]
was In the foreign office at Picking. | re-
celyed a suggestion from a lady friend OF
mine residing in Washington as to a course
OF dietary treatment. / had ~scistica, Have
YOU ever had sciatica2 I also suffered
from dyspepsia. but the rheumatism was
worse. It was terrible. I wanted to die;
what was the use? My life ives seientsry,
sitting IN a chair all day. very little walk
ing or other exercise. Why, you know, the
scIatica was like a barometer, the worse
attacks of 1t were always forerunners or
weather changes and storms. Bad weather
succeeded a bad attack of ~sciatica lust as
surely as the sunshine comes after a rain.
well. the advice of this woman in
Washington, who had written a DOCK on
the subject, caused me to change my diet.
I gave up a. flesh food. oh, flesh foods
ere bad. you know; they contain uric acid;
uric acid in the blood, you know. IL means
sciatica or rheumatism. l began to feel
better. I became interested in dietary sub
jects and wrote to various doctors and au-
thors OF health books. Many Of them
wrote letters to me recommend ing this
thing and that. and such advice that APP
pealed to my judgment | tried. OF course.
not all OF It appealed TO me. | exercised
my own Judgment and noted carefully my
experiences. / gave up all meats Of every
kind. tea, coffee and splrituous liquors. l
didn't smoke. SO I didn't have that to give
up. What did / take in place OF these
things7 Eggs, milk-they contain the neces-
sary elements OF food. many vegetables, es-
pecially rice, which contains much starch,
you know; nuts. which are a fine thing.
Then / drink hot water. allowing 1t to cool
20 q comfortable temperature after it is
brought to the table.
How He Eats.
"It was wonderful. Before ] left Peking
20 return to the United States | was feel
ing much better. No more ~sciatica, no
more indigestion. And have cultivated a
new taste for food. At first 1 was
tempted to eat flesh foods. but now | have
no desire for them. Why. meat now
seems to me actually repulslve. | look
upon II merely as a piece OF carcass. OF a
dead body. Ny appetite Is fine. | relish my
food, eat It eagerly and enjoy It.
81 eat only two meals a day, the first al
about Il O'Clock in the morning and the
second at 6 In the evening. What time d.
] rise? Six o'clock or $3.50. | drink hot
water in the early morning. but eat no food
until II o'clock. Each meal takes a full
Jul ~ u ~ bRhANA 'N
doctrine Of Horace Fletcher. masticate my
food. take much time in eating. remember
ing that the saliva of the mouth is an i'm
portant factor in the digestive system
No, one meal Is much like the other, al
though the evening meal would probably
be considered the principal one.
'Then there is physical exercise to b'
considered. and I take exercises and prac
tice deep breathing"
Mr.. WI rose to open one of the windows
remarking:
And l always keep all the windows open
These are closed just now because the dus
is coming In clouds from the excavation
work across the street there. But I Away
have the windows open wide. both nigh
and day, summer and winter. Now, II
Peklng the climate is very cold, you know
colde In wirnter than It is here. The win
dows in my house were kept open just tn
same, night and day. or course more GOV
ering was required; but the windows mus
always be kept apaa, Even when It snowe,
the windows were open wide"
Ms. W. evinced much enthusiasm on tn
subject 81 open windows In winter and OF
every other branch Of the health doctrin
which he expounds. His manner was al
most that of a young cOllegian dSscussinI
the athletic victories Of his alma mater.
This matter of ones age, OF rather o
youth. which sent Ponce de Leon on
search half way around the world befor
there were any maps, is as simple as ca,
he, saws Minister WI. The discussion be
came 50 interesting that Mr.. WI was re
minded that he had in his American resi-
dence acquired a reputation for askln
questions. especially as TO folks ages. Ho,
old was he7
Young At seventy.
II have never answered" said the diplC
mat, Not that II matters; but what
the use? Sixty years, seventy years. eight
years-it is nothing, II means nothing.
am 90 we will say. A man says. 4 al
growing Old How foolish; Il is mere
a hsbit, a custom. Let him say. 1 am ie
A man 10 as old as he thinks he is or Z
young. Why. l heard of a young lady
20 who had been In an insane asylum sin,
she was Is or so. After all those years 81
looked as young as ever; not a wrinkle q
the fair skin OF her face, a fine colo
sparkling eyes, not a streak o. gray in n,
hair. What was the reason? When 81
was a very young lady the young man 81
was 10 marry dIed from an accident Al
the tragedy upset her mind. After tn
she was not conscious Of time; she did NJ