New-York tribune., 1922-11-19

Worle, aged fo5, whose peculiar re-
tScence piques my interest, ard that
mysterious and anonymous Hrnaiasy
lady who suffered from cold feet Nof
to mention Mr.. Robert Tylor. OF Scarye
who lived an peace and content for i32
years, but when Queen Victoria sent
him her photograph for SO doing uI
and died in three months.
Would you be useful at eighty? Con.
sider Miss Elizabeth Warlow. OF Aetau
who ct that age wss reciting Esperante
in a crowded and doubtless edited
auditorium. DO you fear that people
will forget yon7 Remember that Mrs
Howeki, of King Edward Road, Walt
ham Cross, on the evening Of her
centenary was surprised by the Baptist
congregation OF that place with thf
gift of q shawl.
II you would both eat and aourisf
regard the fact that Miss Betsy Wot-
ton, Of Harrew-on-the-H Hill, consume.
daily at the age of t04 q rasher OF
bacon, boiled mutton and onions, m;1k
puddings, bread, butter, Ash. and seme-
times cake and sweets--and. suspect
anything else that happens 70 be lying
about. AS for drink, relative Of Dr
Smiths at the age OK forty-fiSe was
presented BY lady with a hogshead
Of very old Jamaica rum, too large to
get into the house. So he began to
drink it up, and at ninety was still
going strong. A poison that takes &
hundred years to kill, the doctor re
marks, may be regarded as slow in its
effects.
hear this in mind, the pace that
kills is the crawl. A lady of ninety,
bride for the fourth time, attributes
her vigor to the privations she under
went while successfully the wife OF
three different tappers, two of whom
died of starvation and one from freez-
| ing. Those interested in a regimen
may notice that it Is healthier te
| marry a trapper than TO be one. The
vocation of the brides new mate and
what spectacular fate he contempIates
are not vouchsafed.
! A tranquil and not too overburdened
mind appears to be conductive tos
| longevity Most Of DR.. Smiths cx
/! hibits seem to have been singularly.
! free from what might be called in
! tellectual compiexity. They all testify
TO the salubrious results of leading &
good life. Owen Jones, Robert Owen,
John Jones, Miss E. Pugh, and Evar
Jones, aged, respectively, 90, 81, SO, &C
and 81, attended Sunday school sey
orally without an absence OIL, SO, s.
and 81 years. The could no more.
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! Or. Smith makes no secret OF hi
partiality for the aged in every wall
| In life, and particularly in the medics
/ profession. He tells Us that each one
/ of us ought to have a good ''three
guinea consultation" with an elderly
physician at least once year and ad
/ rnits that he. would like TO see one such
case in his own Office every day
hope he gets ten. That would make
thirty guineas. IF you can't go, the
book will do, for he has managed some
how, between clippings, TO pack it with
/ practical advice. -
/ am fully aware that nay passionate
affection for DIR. Smith is oni.s a trici.
i of my mental evolution and the symp-
tom of most lamentable repression
My unconscious has appropriated the
/ good and learned leeeh as convenient
grandfather-image. 1t wants him t.
a feed it peppermints and let it looi
i through the stereosccpe at pictures O.
Niagara Falls in winter. 1t is only my
conscious mind that demands the grue.
and the stethoscope. My loyalty rs
mains g
/ But there are still things want ts
know. Is Mrs. Mary Coleman. of Roy
don, Epping, aged io3, as spry as s1t.
/ makes out to be2 | have my doubts
| want to talk it over. with Dr. Smith.
shall gather my aged tantrums about
me, borrow three guineas, and leave fol.
| London as soon as it can be arranged
Until then l shall gather what com
fort can from she rather ambiguous
information that the undertaken OF
/ Cosport, Hants, buried three. people
over ninety in one week