LONDON'S NEW LORD MAYOR.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13277, 30 November 1911, Page 4

LONDON'S NEW LORD MAYOR.

Eighty-one years is a ripe ago at which to be entering upon tho most strenuous year of one's municipal lifo. That is the age of the Lord Mayorelect, who will this month assumo the office. Sir Thomas Crosby is the first Lord Mayor of London who is by profession a medical practitioner, and he l-eealls with pride that as a young man he had many nursery cases in Lombard street. He had no spoei.il prescription for keeping young. He is not a teetotaller or a non-smoker, but ho has one settled belief: "Take care of your arteries." In the city of London, or anywhere else," lie says, "you must take care of your arteries. A man is as old as his arteries. If they degenerate you get an effusion of the blood upon tho brain or elsewhere and crack!—you are old at 25." Rut how can you keop them from degenerating? "Early to bed," he replied; "smoke little and drink less, but first of all early to bed."