The sun., 1916-11-17
Young "Chancey," SO Next
April, Speaks on cart Of
Growing Older"
VOICE CARRIES TO CURB
Ex-senator Calls Three Score
and Ten Theory a Bad .
Fallacy.

nItiee ana sixties crOWded the audi
torium Of the New York Academy Of
Medicine in West Forty-third street last
night to heal young Chauncey Depew.
who has II all framed up TO be 80 years
old on April % next. deliver an address
entitled "The Art Of GROWING Older and
h Value Of IN Interest In r-'"',c Life"
Before Chauncey0or Chancey. as he
called himself during the course OF his
remarks-came into the lecture hall the
doctors. doctors wives, daughters. sons,
nurses m everybody else present buEzed
forth their regrets that the academy had
been 80 cruel as to ask so aged a GENTLE
man to prepare and deliver an address
TO them at such a %goshawful hour a.
S:t5 o'clock at night.
The buxzing stopped suddenly. Into
the auditorium walked the chairman of
the evening. Old Or. Walter b. James.
who was accompanied by . slim waisted
lad In evening clothes who was laughing
and chatting rnerrily. The swagger boy
was Clancy" He gave every appear
ance Of a young man who would live
through the night.
This academy was founded in 1884,
DR.. Chairman James insisted upon say
ing during the applause hat riccocheted
steadily all over the building once
Chancey entered. ian once a year we
ask q layman to talk to us. 1t has been
said that after a man Ia so years old
he ID his own best physician. II that
be true. and %supposing he grows better
- he grows older. Mr.. Depew. who has
repudiated Holy Writ. should be accepted
In the profession. Ladies' and gentlemen.
Senator Depew."
A Good wife IL . Safeguard.
I'm afraid" began the distinguished
i Aay tn m .AaNAa II, .tt.at 10 r
should reveal how often I have had to
rely on a physician the old tradition
about a man being his own best physi-
clan after ne Is fifty would disappear.
The octoEenarian may not think a doc
tor Is necessary-but his wife does.
tLaughter.1 On the other hand. nobody
can question what a man past fourscorc
Of years says unless that body is older.
"Seventy-hve years ago when IL say.
seventy-hve years z when ! was IA
years old remember that our village
had any number OF old men n old
women. They advertised their age.
t~Laughter.1 After reaching the age OF
so years the women donned caps. one
sort OF cap during the daytime and an
other sort OF cap at night. Laughter. ]
Men past 20 years OF age lay around the
house or indolently sat on a nail key at
the village grocery.
We haven't got that sort OF people
nowadays. To-day you can't tell a
mother from her daughter because OF the
way mother and daughter dress. and
you'd have a hard time finding a states
man sitting on a nail key. ILaughter.l
Everything helps old age now. There
Is the telephone: A man can reach his
friends now by telephone: he can get
his office, his club. or he can listen TO a
sermon. an opera or . speech without
leaving his nome. The cable. the wire
less, connect a far spread world and SO
help to keep alive mental activity.
THE famous seven ages Of man do not
exist to-day. Shakespeare died at SO
thinking himself an old man. He was
only a young fellow. tIaughter.l lie
spoke of the sixth age OF man. the lean
and sllppered p~antaloon period. Tha,
sort Of man,to-day is at the bar--the lie.
gal bar. l mean llaughterl-or In the
pulpit n giving the world the best OF
his maturity.
"Shakespeare's seventh age sans
teeth. sam taste, sans ~eyes-why. m
friends. the dentist OF to-day gives We
better teeth h a nature gave us In the
frst place the ocul!st improves oul
sight As for taste. every pood wife
knows that she had better look out " the
old gentleman finds something on tn
table that does not come up to what hs
was accustomed to have in the old days
(LAughter.)
Criticises Nfnetieth Tsaln.
zone OF the greatest influences on tn
world has been DavidN ninetietl
psalm. IN which David said that three
score and ten years were tho limit a
life. There's no telling how many mer
and women have died becaused they be
t-.-A D..,l ~- .- -.-
hat psalm. I believe. has caused NOR,
deaths than the war now raging In Eu
rope-ten times over. tApplauss.1
David lived life. tLauEhter.l He hAa
all that ne could get. Laughter. I
there were any husbands In the wa,
David saw to It that they were sent 4
the forefront of the nearest battle
t~Laughter.l
MY grandfather died at the age O
! rs. One OF my great grandfathcr's de
when he was so years old, and he spen
. tho last years Of his life lamenting tn
= decadence of the age-because Jefferro
. had been elected President. Laughter,
I The only ce%ntenarian ] ever knew was
French chemist named Chevral. ] at
. tended his hundredth birthday celebra
ton in Paris.
"He had attended a grand concert II
! tho opera house the night before. whel
" i leIt MN NJ . OClOCh III inc uoTIllnl
d he was still in his box at the oper
{ house. The next morning, his birthday
no helped review the troops Of the CARR
son Of Paris In the afternoon he read
r scientific paper and in the evening h
attended a great banquet. tLaughte
y and %applause,l
s Didn't Use Alcohol or Tobacco.
. 81 asked him how he did It, I like m
>. work. he answered, AM l never use a
A cohol and ! never use tobacco An oil
: a was sitting next to the c~entenariai
an old man who was filling his glas
= steadily and toasting everybody. Che,
= raj every now and then would lean owe
and try 10 stop the old man from bein
too exubcrant. l asked some one. Wh
!. Is the old gentleman indicating tn
= aged man that Chevral was trying
: +. keep quiet. That's his son, his olde'
boy was tho answer. His boy has Ju'
passed his seventy sixth birthday
t~Laughter.l
O Had CLANCY ANY rules for growing ol
A beautifully? That was a question whicl
u doubtless. crowded the minds OF many {
n his listeners. He had CLANCY hrougi
his two hour talk TO a close by limiting
n his rules.
Is Don't retire. he said-retire hcl
It meaning retiring from active interest
not In the sense Of going to bed. ct
70 up early In tho morning, no matter no
late you so to bed. Maintain some II
%terest. II you do not maintain some II
:" terest In sports or what not maintain 4
interest In service. There IL no need 4
" hainu a mollvcnddla or mn ipsipid poll