THREE CENTENARIANS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 October 1922, Page 4

THREE CENTENARIANS.

RULES FOR A LONG LIFE

.By a remarkable coincidence the col lectiA'e wisdom of three centenarians who unanimously brand over-eating a the greatest cause of ill-health am premature death, is made available ti the American people to-day," says thi London Times' New York correspondent "Mr. John A. Stewart, one of th< most famous American bankers, an< Mr. Barr Spangier, a Avell-know-n mer chant and president of"the First Na tional bank of Lancaster, Pennsylvania recently celebrated their hundredti birthdays. Dr. Stephen Smith, -th< father of American public health,' diec JSIII^OIdOIOO JO S"s{o9Ai AVOJ V UllftlM a century of life, leaving ten maxims on longevity for the benefit of his countrymen. _ "Dr. Smith was the first graduate ol the American College of physicians.

qualifying in 1850. A favourite saying of h:s was: 'Every man Avho dies before a hundred practically speaking dies by Lis own knife and fork.' His ten : maxims of longevity are; Eat hardly any meat. Drink lots of milk; if it..disagrees with you drink more. Take^a ten or fifteen minutes' nap aft-er luncheon and dinner. Sleep ten hours. Sleep outdoors Avhen the Aveather permits. Don't smoke. Don't eat sweets. Take no alcoholic or other stimulants. Avoid the easy chair; absence of work is the first step to the grave. Finally, just he natural; (iuit all foolishness. ( "Mr. John A. Stewart, who is still [ active as -chairman of the United States | Trust Company of New York, and was ! Lincoln's financial adviser during the , Civil War, offers similar counsel. 'My I great rule (he says) is moderation. Eatj ing too much is as" had as drinking too . much. And I haven't smoked for eighty yearrs.' I "Mr. Barr Spangler's testimony again !*is an echo of that of both of his con- ! temporaries. 'I nttvibute my long life j and health,' he declares, 'to moderate I eating—l take but tAvo meals a day. Do plenty of Avork and take little medicine. I have never smoked.' "