The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-18
LIVING $50 YEARS.

Mr. Edison like WI Ting Fang and Professor Metchnko thinks
he poong his life $50 Both these eminent men are eat
ing moderately taking reasonable exercise keeping work and in
close touch with affairs They believe in fresh air simple diet
gune point Of view and in worthy occupation Here and there a
tenc history they find the lives of who have
at least turned the century mark by keeping to similar dcpme
Cornao the Italian of te-a physical wreck at forty who
through abstinence it sad kept himself earth
nearly generations Little else known of him, however
his temperament his surroundings before deciding that reduced
diet alone was the means OF carrying him through
which labor and sorrow he spends his life under such SALT
conditions those the Catholic priesthood
observe All the world have about the average
existence the simple ouodoor races the the indoor
than do The Chinese the
Getting close of longer life than getting
close humanity Look everywhere and individual
the of seventy is an old man.
Such notable exceptions we have read about or seen
the Balkan mountains and the desert of the Colorado
do not anywhere the Edison or WI Ting Fang
femit Fresh air exercise and diet largely made of milk
said for the Baanese longevity and the Indians of the
hu continuous sunshine moderate diet and absence of
Dwell upon the point They need and but things There
Ouses between rich and for all They
wars rvales and from ambition and vciss
ude from anything disturb their sleep exhaust their
of their desert life For them thoughts beyond
the REGIONS of their souls But though few of their men and women
live years beyond three generations time we'll this side
Of $50 they find the machinery Of their bodies worn out and they yield
the mmutabe law and make for others True their mode of
kept long Edison WI Ting Fang or
Meschko such ess and cooress existence would be worse
than death By choice these modern will stay in the world of
action the world OF friction and the world OF and must they
take the consequences?
We speak of the nmutable law of passage. Nature
derfu looking after the welfare of the
to the life of humanity by the size and productvenes of
the earth With average human life meeting dead wall seventy
the population is already the of subsistence
the tenure of dobd Would there be
population that the earth could nourish
getting that in about two hundred years poey
be lighting for food AT least the mathematician if
the span of life with corresponding vry dis
aser would much than the year 2l00 If the were
Probably
adapt the population the acreage But things are men
cannot hope individual live time
lhe ncoerS are cowg Nature must provide food enough
enough for them all
But let discourage those who would with the plan of
hey he bee heco1, -
best thing Corao got from the simple life his great age
after seventy mans do usually affairs The
real to Cornao his comparative physical
and So whether goes far towards the century the
heatu regimen of life will ward pain let
quietly and without fear from which no av
er returns With smile fitting breath and without vis
bic png Conaro paid his debt So might have
done II they had lived to the processes of the rather
than them
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