HOW TO LIVE LONG
There have been many recipes for long life, but being ducked in a barrel of rainwater seems ono of the queerest. Mr. John A. Bennett of Winlaton, England, has been declaring that when he was a child, the youngest of 15 and a weakling, his mother and father ducked him once a day in the rainwater butt to make him grow up to be strong and healthy. It sounds rough treatment, but it cannot have had any harmful effects, for Mr. Bennett is now 84, and he lias had a working life of 60 years. His ducking as a child was the only doctoring he ever had; but simple food and exercise have helped to prolong his days beyond the three score years and ten.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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129HOW TO LIVE LONG New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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