Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-08
ROCKEFELLER IS Is
YEARS OLD TODAY
Has Half Billion Dollars and His
Health Is Better Today Than
For Years.
HIS SYSTEM OF LIVING
DESCRIBED IN CIRCULAR.
Health Counsellor of Oil King Gives
Some Advice Which Anyone Might
Find Valuable.
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Cleveland, O., July s.-Seventy-five
years old and the "richest man in the
world worth upwards of half a bill
lion dollars, according to his business
associates-John D. Rockefeller eele-
brated his birthday today. There was
no elaborate program planned for the
anniversary. The oil king spent the
morning at Forest Hill. He received
hundreds of messages of cOngratula-
tiOns from business and personal
friends.
Rockefeller's health is better today
than it has been in years and DR.. H.
F. Biggar, his physician for many
years, has assured him that he may
count on many more birthdays. A game
Of golf, an automobile ride in the coun-
try and calls from relatives and friends
made up the birthday program,
Despite many stories to the contrary,
Rockefeller is unusually healthy for
man of his age, especially when his
early business worries and work is
taken into consideration. For his ply
steal condition of today, Rockefeller
gives credit to his personal physician
and friend, DR.. H. T. Biggar, aged 70.
Rockefeller has kept his health and
strength while men his Junior by many
years have succumbed after winning
bushes laurels not nearly as great as
those the oil king has won. OF these
perhaps Z. H. Hartman and the late
j. P. Morgan are the most prominent.
He has survived his One-time partner,
Henry NJ. Flagler, who recently died at
the age of II.
DR.. Biggar attributes the health of
both his wealthy patient and himself
to his always followed "system of liv-
ing" This system he describes in a
recently issued pamphlet which he has
distributed among some of his friends.
Its Keynote is simplicity. Strict study
Of personal neeus and constant watch
fulness, also are among the essentials
of longevity, according to the pamph-
let.
Two meals day, one entirely of un-
cooked fruit; an occasional day of
feasting from all foods but fruit; ep-
som salt baths frequently and a few
Turkish baths with vigorous massage
at least every two weeks are some of
the recipes offered with the solid back
ing of their eminent success in the case
or the doctor and his famous friend
and patient. DR.. Biggar is sworn en-
emy of pneumonia, the absence of a
practical known specific for which he
deplores as failure of the medical
profession.
SO A draft on any part of the body
arresting superficial circulation may
result in cold and if the body is not
in healthful state, pneumonia and
general catarrhal conditions are likely
to Develop said the physician.
"Spray the mouth, nose and throat
with antiseptic solutions if you would
avoid these dangers. Breathe pure aiI
and keep the lungs clean. OF all the
poisons that will produce cold, lung
poisons are the worst. More than q
quarter of all the waste and debris
thrown off by the body is exhaled from
the lungs. " DR.. Biggar advises mas
sage of the muscles of the neck, spine
back and chest as a likely method OF
relief from cold or diseases original
ing from a cold 'Baths are very
essential, " says DR.. Biggar, "twice OF
three times week take full batt
with epson salts, one pounu to the tut
of water. 1t leaves the skin smooth
and velvety, making the muscles elias
tic and pliable and relieves the nerve,
Of tension. Nature now and then needi
Observation-Disclosures a day to he
by an occasional fruit feast, eating al
the fresh fruits you may DESIRE Their
is no doubt the mental and physica
activity cOnjoined with rational tenn
perance and regularity in eating i
generally conducive to health and long
evity."
Rockefeller s health counsellor cor
= demns the three.meala-day habit a
n not always conducive to good healtl
4 A rule, he says, is to eat when hungr
and then not to repletion. ~Only rip
fruits should be eaten, - he says, fan
whether foreign or domestic only afte
cleansing and steaming. Avoid th
banana with the clear yellow skin;
is unripe and unhealthy. Select o.
anges with a deep golden yellow an
yielding to pressure. The grapefu
should be dark and yielding and cate
without sugar. A meal of ripe fruit
is virtually cooked by the sun s ray
and practically pre.digested. Normi
persons are not injured by the moderat
use of tea or coffee; both should
drunk without cream or sugar. III
injuries from their excessive use a.
dyspepsia, biliousuess, constipation, i
somnia, irritability, irregular and into
mittent pulse, hardening of the arterie
neurasthenia and bad heart.n