The Washington times., 1917-10-21

oreos WOMEN as wei, pass tne century we uVeo
wisely
The number of women that live to one hundred is
about double the number of and this in spite of the fact
that because of deaths in child bearing face greater
danger of death than men.
WHY do more women than men live beyond hundred?
Because women are more temperate have more secontro
are gentler, less rebellious.
Read facts about the most famous of all the worlds old
RssSBBs saBBs Of whom we have EXACT HISTORICAL AN0"h
Luigi oornaro the famous Italian was born in Venice
The doctors told Cornaro at the age of forty: Your
constitution Is ruined your digestion gone your high hv
ing and violent have destroyed you you must pre-
COrnaro replied This is interesting will now study
my case and live. Life worth while since you
tell me must give it up
OOrnaro had enough know that the body made
Of what put in it, that length of life depends upon care
Of the body which includes of the mind His motto
"To eat much you must eat little Meaning that
He selected his food with the greatest care eliminating
after careful everything that did not agree with him
he weighed everything that he ate and drank scrupu
iousy for more than sixty He knew exactly how much
EfTfIE THiGr0'o O' 'n' '''''@ .1H H' H''D 'H ND
oornaros diet for twenty hours consisted of twelve
ounces Of solid food andsad to offend good Prohbitonist
but it Is necessary fourteen ounces of wine
On this diet he lived in perfect health with marvellous
strength, until past one hundred years Of age
He drank light wines temporarily, as all the worlds
greatest men have done with extreme temperance.
Concerning wine he said: Wne is truly the milk of old
ont his sixty years of careful living except occasions
when he not able to secure the wine suited to his con-
stitution.
Needless to say the wine that he took the natural
light Italian wine In mis- daily allowance Of fourteen ounces
have considered insane drinking whiskey cocktails
the vile half ermented champagne with which Americans
poison themselves.
Is such a careful life as that of Cornaro WORTH
WHILE, will ask It is indeed You would think so
you read his third discourse written by Cornaro at the
age addressed to the Rev Daniel Barbara pa
triarch of Aquileia.
To his reverend friend Cornaro writes most truly Cali
mankind may possess earthly paradise after the age of
eighty-a paradise with which myself am blessed"
As matter of fact the human being of average strength
at BIRTH living with Cornaros wisdom from the beginning
would barring accidents easily live to the age OF one hun
dred and fifty.
Cornaros own lfe and the well-estabished facts
eernng it, the question What does life amount to
at that extreme age?"
At ninetyve through his grandchildren his large for
tune had been diminished he took his business in hand
and than made the oss recaimng swamps adding
to the value of his lands He good business with
body, brain, and teeth in good order at ninety
When past ninety he showed the Venetians how to
increase their revenues reclaim the marshes control the
tides
assistance-which many modern man does with difficulty
at half that age.
The best tribute to the happiness of the right kind of old
age is in Cornaro's words 81 NEVER KNEW THE WORLD
WAS BEAUTIFUL UNTIL REACHED OLD AGE"
The wisdom of Cornaro's life theory shown in his
own family he married when he old and his wife was
old. But their daughter Chlara had EIGHT SUNS AND
THREE DAUGHTERS all of whom grew up to give their
aged grandfather much pleasure She must have been
healthy daughter.
And Cornaros wife, who was doubtless nagged into v
ing husband did proved the value of his theory for
she also lived be hundred-n spite of the fact that she
probably spent many dull hour listening to her husband
telling how wonderful he Women lead dull lives and
history says very little about them
Cornaro knew how old should die, well how
an old man should live and eat.
Death for the old that live wisely ne said should be
AL
he died peacefully his palace Padau in the hundred
and third year Of his ageorty than he need
of his life.
Such are few of the facts concerning who lived
tempatey and wisely and conquered death for more than
Confined a Bottom of Last COIumn.)