WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY?

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2661, 12 June 1896, Page 3

WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY?

''In the coming time," said a famous EnsK'h poet, " a man or woman eighty or one" hiindred years old will ho more beauti'ul than the youth or maiden of twvnty. as the ripe fruit is race beautiful and fragraut thnn the green. These ripe men and women will have no wtinkles on the brow, no prey hair, no bent and feeble bodes. On the contrary they will havepe'fect heuing. cleat- eyesight, sound teeth, ebsic Step, and mental vigour." Does th'B sound absurd and itnpos-ible? Why should it? People over one hundrtd yeare old a'e frequently met with in iheso days, as tbev have been as far as human records go-back. A man is of no -real vahv until he is past fifty and gained cont-ol ff iiis passions and acquue-i some piactic v wisdom. Afrer that he ought to hays fivm. fifty t) seventy-five woriung yeirs befors him. Whose di?s sho»t of one hundred (bu violence) die 3of his oivn lolly u> : that of his ancestors. One chief thing however we must learn. What is it ? Take an illustrationsuch as we see multitudes of on every sid?. Mr Kichard Legatfo of New BWingbr-ke near Boston. Lincf'lsliiie. is'a man now somewhat above seventy fa'mer wellknown and highly respected io his district. In the spring of IS9I he ha-3 an atfciclt of influenza f'om which he never fully recuperated. The severe sympV>ms pa-sed away of course, but he remained weak. No doubt food would have built him up, provided he could have eaten and digested it. Yet here was the trouble, his appetite was poor and what lit'le be took, as a matter of necessity rather than of relish, eeetned to actwrang with. him. Instead of giving him s'rensth it ac:mlly produced-pain and distress ia the shies, chest and stomach.

Then again-which is A common experience —he wouldfeel a caving for someth'tu! to eat, yet on sitting down to a m?al in trie hope to enjoy ifc, the stomach would suddenly rebel against the proceeding, and ha would turn from the tab>e without having swallowed a mouthful.

Nothing cmld come of this but increasing weakness, and it wasn't long before it woe all he could do to summon strength to walk about. As for working on hi 3 that to be sure, was' not to be thought of. He had a doctor attending him as we should expect. ; If the services of a leaned medical mm are «ver''noeded they must be in snch a oise— whfn nature seems to be broken up, and ihe machinery runs too slow, aa our domestic clocks do when we have.forgotten to wind them at"the usual hour. , ' • W«ll, Mr. took' -the vprescubed medicines, but got no better. ; l He..-aakcl the •doctor why iha,t wae, and he appe.ated to r, e p.niz'ed for an answer at enough a doctor doesn't like to admi( iHat his medicines are doing no good, becmse he axpects to be paid for them; and then there is his professional pride, besides. However, he finally said,' If my medicines fail to make you better it is owing to your age. . That idea was as plain tt s a pikestaff, and if the pa'ient bad never sot any better afierwards, why who could dispute what the doctor said? Nobody, of course. It would look just as though Mr Legga'e were really going to pieces from old age. But something subsequently happened which spoils that easy theory of the case. What it wjs he tells us in a letter dated February 3rd, 1893. * After doctoring several months without receiving ady benefit, I determined to try Mother Seigel's Ctuative Syrup. I got a bottle from Mr Gr- H. Haneon, Chemist, New Bolingbroke. Afier taking the Syrup for a work I wae much better. I h*d a good appetite, and what 1 ate dig sted and strengthened me; and by the time I had taken two bottles I was ' well and strong as ever.' You may publish -tine statement if you think proper. (Signed). Richard Leegate.' So it proved, after all, that Mr Leggite was not eufferine; from old >. age (at Nonsense!), bnt fiom indigesion and dyspepsia. When Mother Set gel's J. great discovery routed that he felt well and strong as ever.' Now for the moral: It is not Father Time who mows people down thus early in life ; it is the Demon of Dyspepsia. Keep him away, and—barring accidents—yoii may live. & sc ntury. ■• '