LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1298, 29 November 1911, Page 3

LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.

♦ AGED SI. With pride and wonder I/ondoners .'ire following Hie career of Aldcrinau Sir Thomas Crosby, the octogenarian physician, who has been chosen to succeed Sir Yczey Strong as Lord Mayor during the coming year. At eighty-one years of age. Sir Thomas is discharging ail his duties with a. youthfui vigour that is- little short of marvellous. "Take rare of your arteries'" Thai is Sir Thomas's prescription for the preservation of youth. "In the City of London or anywhere else, lake care of your arteries. A man is as old as his' arteries. If they degenerate you get an effusion of blood upon the brain or elsewhere and crack!—you are old at five-and-twenty." "But what do you do to your, arteries to keep thorn from degenerating?" ho was asked by an interviewer. "Early to bed," ho replied, "smoke little and drink less, hut first of all early to bed. vou know the saying, 'Sik hours' sleep for a man, sevr.ir hours for a woman, and eight, for a. foolr' Well, the man who s.iirt that" wa-s a. fcol liimself, and all the fools wbo hove believed him have found out. their folly. A Ion" night's sleep, that is the gTeni rule." ° Sir Thomas added: "I have been a. teetotallcr for a time, and, as far as I could judge teetotalism did mo no harm. I was as well without anything as with it. But it you want to know why, after .all my experience, I take a glass of wine, I will tell yon. It is beca.uso I like it and the -Lord Mayor-elect laughed a bi-' hearty laugh. ' ■ • The new" Lord Mayor "took officc" on November 9.