Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-01-21
HOW TO LIVE TO Be S8
DIR. Wiley's Rules for a Long
and Happy Life.
Noted Pure Food Man Tells Whit Not
to Ent in the Course of n Lecture
in the Redpath Series ut u.
v. NJ. Gymnasium.

Tho lecture of Or. Harvey W. Wiley
of pure food fame at the college gym
nasium Monday. the event being one
OF the Redpath series. was enjoyed by a
large audience. 1t was not like formal
address but was more of an interesting
talk on the possibilities of longer life
by one who knows what he is talking
about, devoid of the technical suggestions
of a physician, full of practical advice
and possessing the human quality
throughout
After DR. Wiley had been introduced
by President Benton. the lecturer spoke
of his feeling of satisfaction at being
able TO address the people of Vermont
and particularly Of burlington. He COM
mended the work of the university,
which he was proud 10 acknowledge as
foster mother, and he spoke a good
word for the agricultural college. the
medical school and for the States health
department. making especial reference
to the work Of the department of
hygiene which is now engaged in study
ing the dreaded scourge of infantile
paralysis
COWS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE
THAN BABIES
DR.. Wiley commented on the apparent
fact that II the cows or horses of the
State were to suddenly experience a dis
ease there would he plenty of State and
federal aid to fight the same but not
much could be expected in the way of
an appropriation to fight an epidemic af-
fectins children which shows that I'D to
now we regard our cows of more con-
sequence than our babies The subject
or his discourse was. he said "The
Public Health" He added that he had
never written anything on the subject
ana committed 1t to memory and that his
talk of the evening would be different
than 1t was the night before and would
pe something else the next night But
there was always one thing he would
talk abote and that was the drecard
OF Ire which human beings seem
70 possess. He said that II he were
10 ask the question how many
people In the hall wished to live he would
PROBABLY not receive a half dozen an
s"ers IN the negative and they would
PROBABLY be from some very young peo-
PIE VINO might want to die because they
We're disappointed In love. He advised
them to wait until the next day or per-
maps the day after before they atten1pt-
ed self-destruction, for a feeling to live
would grow stronger each day The dis
ease to die Of is old age. but in this
country the average length is only a
years a man at 70 is only a callow
youth. He is Just beginning to know how
TO work. All the best service TO hu
mainly has been done by people who
have passed the age Of 20. DR.. OsIor
who, in a Joking mood. said that men
should be chloroforaed at CO. is 70 and
now occupying the position of regius
professor Of medicine at the University
OF Oxford, the premier physician Of the
worked
IMPROPER FOOD FATAL.
Improper FOOD, said DIR. Wiley. coming
10 MS subject, is the cause Of the great
est inroads into vitality known He
pointed to the tremendous percentage of
death among children under one year
OF age of avoidable diseases as n la
mentable fact, and added that with the
pure milk supply the length of human
life would be increased ten years He
referred to the fact that one valuable
article or diet, rice, had been changed
into a poison by people insisting that the
grains should be polished Among rice
Known as beri-beri. BY polishing the
grains the coating was removed, de-
Stroytng the food value. The same was
rue of wheat. Nowadays white bread
IS insisted upon and the coating Is re-
moved from the wheat also the germ
hnd the grain is submitted to a bleach
|ng process. To live on white -four would
cause the same disease as prevailed
among the rice eaters. The same is true
pr potatoes which should always be cook
ed with the Jackets on and 1t would be
better if the Jackets We're eaten too Dr.
Wiley took occasion to say that one of
he greatest arts in the world was cook
ng a potato and he advised all Young
women to learn It, He said that once
be was looking at the frescoes in the
Vatican and he thought how wonderful
hey were, but he declared ne would
ather know the art Of cooking a po-
alto properly than to have been able
o paint the frescoes. They reminded
him Of how millions of people IN the
World were eating poorly cooked pota-
oes.