METHUSELAH RECIPE.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17218, 29 September 1927, Page 4

METHUSELAH RECIPE.

HOW TO LIVE LQWG. Who is the oldest man in the world to-day. According to a Berlin story, the answer is easy. He is a Kurd called Zaro Aga, at present living in Constantinople, where he has recently, as a mark of respect for his seniority, been given, a job as usher in the Law Courts. He clamis to be 145 years old. Zaro is still active and well, though he was four years old when Frederick the Great died; though he was a con-: temporary of the French Revolution; and though he was over fifty before the first railway in Europe was built. He knows nothing of the rejuvenation theories of Steinach and Voronoff. He eats what seems good to him, and Lives quietly as a pensioner should. He attributes his long life to the fact that he has had nine wives and outlived thern all except one, who now looks after him, and who is younger than he by the inconsiderable period of eighty years. His chief delight is in being taken for drives by admirers, for which he charges a small fee. On his return his sexagenarian wife always takes the money from him, lest it might tempt Mm to become frivolous. He produces no birth certificate, on the reasonable ground that they did not exist in his young days. But he has been passed as genuine by Dr. Mauerburg, who points out that other men have been equally long-lived; Henry Jenkins, 169; and Thomas Parr, 153. Zaro hopes to beat these records.