HOW TO LIVE TO 150

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 26 June 1911, Page 6

HOW TO LIVE TO 150

MR- EDISON'S PLAN.

Mr Thomas Alva Edison, says the » New York correspondent of the "Daily. Mail,'' declares in an interview to-day (April 23) his conviction that the human foody is a machine whie"h, if properly treated, is capable of sustaining life m comfort and enjoyment for 150 years. He stated r that he himself expects to live to that age. . The inventor's confessions of lis expectations of a long life was elicited' by a controversy started by •Mr J. C. Stubbs, of Chicago, a friend and business asociate of t-h e late Mr E. H. Harriman, wttio announces that le will retire on his 65th birthday. Mr Stubbe declares: —'"I am going to retire because I want to live," and adds, business men ought to retire at 65 for their own sakes as well us for the sakes of the institution they serve." According to Mr S-tubbs the reason Mr Harriman died 1 at a comparatively early age was that ht, "worked all day and thought outproblems at night." Mr Edison received an interviewer at his Orange laboratory in New-Jer-sey yesterday, at the conclusion of a vreek. dating Which he "had worked 17 liours a day t including one stretch of 4S hours. "I can think," ho observed, "twice as much and work twice as lor.£r as Mr Harriman did and Mr Srubbs does. This is due to the fact that my system of living is. based —(1) on'proper eating; (2) proper sleeping; and (3) on proper clothing. "Wiby did Mr Harriman think in bed? Because he ate too much. Mr Stubbs and other of his i'.k eat as mueh, though not as -wholnsomeiy, as a without talcing any exercise. They choke their eng'-ies with too much coal. I eat ""ust us much as "I want, and that is very iittls —perhaps half a foandful of solids at each meal. The result is t Hat Ia in asleep 30 seconds after my he\d hits the.pillow. Mr Harriman spent four out of eight hours in bsl thinking and dreaming. I am-in bed for six i:ouis, and all of it is good s-olil sleep. I never dreamed in my life. "I am now 64, and can work and think better than ever I did. This - talk of retirement is bosh. I have woiGted since X was 12, and hone to continue working until I am 150. My Paradise is here on earth.

"My physical condition is perfect. This is ,also due, in part to tlhe fact that I clothe myselfi sensibly.'' JMr Edison here kicked off a shoe two sizes too largey and exclaimed with a chuckle, "So 'with trousers- and shifts. livery vein and artery is thus given a cliance to do its work, for none of theni is ever pinched. Bacteria starve in my system. They have abandoned the job of trying to fasten Bright's disease, diabetes, and other sicknesses on me. What vices have I? Well," dhewing tobacco. My wife used to object to this, but since she learned that the Chief Justice has the same habit she is resigned, and thinks it Tespectable.'