Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
ENJOYING GOOD HEALTH

| Item SCatlng that w. Scott Way, fOl
mer editor of The Transcript was ill 6
his home in Florida. But judging fro1
the tone of letter received from hir
this week the information receive
by our scribe relative to his i'll
ness was fortunately not true. Hi
Delaware friends will be interested il
the letter received from him which W.
publish below:
Winter Park, Florida, Feb. 10, 1911
Editor Transcript.
Middletown, Del.
The next best thing t.
being alive, to read ones own obituar,
is to be able to enjoy the joke of read
ing of ones own serious illness whe1
one is able to eat seven course dinner
without regrets.
If you know the person who so fal
forgot himself as to report the one-time
bald-headed editor of the Transcript az
being probable early subject for the
undertaken. in these times of war prices
for q decent funeral with silver-platec
handles, just tell him that 1 will run
him a foot-race at fifty yards for the
grape juice (this being prohibition
community, without regard to age
limit, or meet him at any other endur.
ance test suitable to the dignity of a
man over fifty with a gold-headed cane,
save that of plain, unadorned lying
AS l have not consulted a doctor of
medicine or had my temperature taken
during the past fifteen years, or pa
tronized a drugstore, save at the soda
fountain, or been charged with hav-
ing weak heart, weak back, hardened
arteries, milllonaires' collie, loss of ap-
petite or the heaves am quite at loss
to know why should be reported on
the list of dangerously sick. AS Mark
Twain once said of the report of his own
death, which CHANGED to be premature,
this report of my serious illness is
greatly exaggerated.
Please assure my old friends of Mid
dletown and vicinity, as we'll as other
anxious inquirers in Delaware that am
coming in to my meals with my usual
regularity, that l am not addicted to
pills, plasters, health dope, wheat and
molasses coffee or liver regulator at one
dollar a bottle, and, unless l should
chance in careless moment, to be run
down by a light six or heavy eight,
breaking the speed limit, l have every
reason to believe that l shall vote at
the next Presidential election. To be
sure, life is very uncertain. more un-
certain than dog fight, the European
war or a California election, and one
never knows when one may be gathered
in by medlesome microbe or two, any
more than one knows when one is going
to be skinned by warm personal friend.
To be serious, and l have reached a
time in life when one should be serious,
this little story of my being sick bed,
which some one may have put IN cir
culation merely to stir me up and thus
arm whether was alive and still kick
ing, has had the result to quite warm
my heart to the memory of my many
old friends on the Delmarvia Peninsula,
who seem not to have forgotten that
once lived Sin their midst" and did
what could to contribute to the ''gaiety
of nations. And, by the way, this re-
minds me that l owe my old readers of
the Transcript, and its new readers as
well, a letter about Florida, which you
shall have soon.
With best wishes, | am able to sign here,
Yours for health,
SCOTT WAY.
Come to this land of pure delight,
Where alligators never bite
But only love to joke and tease,
The negro in his hours of ease.
Scott.