Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — A VETERAN BENEFACTOR. [ARTICLE]

A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.

Hl. Past Life, Prwent Plans, and What He Has to Say Upon a Subject That Astonished Him. (From the New York Times.] Nearly forty years ago a young mln, of,, unusual endowment*, began to mould public opinion upon a subject of vital importance. Like all pioneers, his early efforts were unsuccessful, but hi* ability and the value of his work soon won public confidence, and to-day there la not a village or hamlet in the country that has not been influenced by Dr. Dio lewis. When, therefore, it was learned yesterday that he contemplated the establishment of a large magazine in this city, the fact was deemed so important that a representative of this paper wai commissioned to see him and ascertain the tiuth of the rumor. Dr. Lio Lewis is a gentleman of 60 years and 200 pounds, with snow-white hair and beard, but probably the most perfect picture of heal h and t igor in the metropo.K He is a living exponent of his teachings, and, notwithstanding the amount of work he has already done, promises still greater activity for years to coma He received the interviewer most courteously, and in reply to a question said: - “It is true I have come to New York to es tablish a monthly magazine. I have come here for the tame reason that I went to Boston twenty-five yea s ago. Then Boston was the best platform in the country from which to speak of education. New York has now become most hospitable to progressive thought*, and especially so to movements on behalf of phy ica' training. “I have reason to know the great and abiding Interest of the American people in this subject They have come to realize that the future of our country pivots upon our physical vitality, and especially upon the vigor of our women. My new magazine will bear the title Dio Lewie's Monthly, and be devoted to Sanitary tnd 8 >cial Science I hope through its pages to inauguiate a new departure in hygiene. ” “Have you not written several books on the subject?” “Yes, nine volumes, and some of them like Our Girl*, published by the Harpers, have had an enormous circulation, but the best work of my life I shall give the world in the new magazine. Forty years of skirmrah jng ought to conclude with ten yoars of organized warfare.” “Doctor, what is the occasion of this new interest in health questions?” “It has come through suffering, which seems the only road t > self-knowledge. The stomach, heart, kidneys or liver fall into trouble, happiness is gone, and then people give attention to their health.” ‘ WMch of these organs is most frequently the victim of our errors?" asked th a reporter. “Within the last few years diseases of the kidneys have greatly multiplied. _ When I was engaged in practice, thirty-five and forty years ago, serious disease of the kidneywas rare; but now distressingly frequent and fata 1 .” “'lo what do you attribute this great increase of kidney troubles?” “To the use of stimulating dnnks adulterated food andiiregular habits of life.” “Doctor, have you any confidence in the remedy of which we hear so much now a days, ‘Warner’s Safe Cure?” *1 believe in the ounce of prevention, rather than a ton of cura" “But have you noticed the remarkable testimonials of Warner’s remedy?” “I hpve, and confess that they have puzzled and astonished me. The commendations of proprietary medicines usually come from unknown persons residing in back counties. But I see in our most reputable newspapers the warmest praise of Warner's Safe Cure from College Professors, respectable physicians and other persons of high in exigence ana character. To thrust such testimony aside may be professional, but it is unmanly. No physician can forget that valuable additions to our Materia Medica have sprung from just such sourcea I was so impressed with this cloud of witnesses that 1 purchased some bottles of Warner's Safe Cure at a neighboring drug store, and analyzed one of them to see if it contained anything poisonoua Then I took three of the prescribed doses at once, and found there was nothing injurious in it I do not hesitate to say that if I found my kidneys in serious troub’e I should use this remedy, because of the hopelessness of all ordinary treatment, and because when a hundred intelligent and reputable persons unite in the statement that a certain remedy has cured them of a grave ma'ady I choose to believe that they speak the truth ” “But, as you may know, my great interest in life les in prevention. For forty years I have labored in this field. One of the phases of my work in New England was the establishment of the Ladies’ Seminary at Lexington, Mass. My aim was to illustrate the possibilities in the phy-leal training of girls during their school life. This institution became, before I left it, the largest and most successful seminary for young women, owned and managed by one person, in our country. I sat down to dinner every day with a family of 203 persons. The remarkable results of this muscle training among girls were given in my paper published in the North American Review of December. 188 a

“Beside, I established the Normal Institute for Physical Training in Boston, and for ten yeai s was its President and Manager. Dr. Walter Channing, Dr. Thomas Hoskins, Prof. Leonard and others were among its teachers, and more than 400 persons took its dililoma and went out into all parts of the and to teach the new school of gymnastics And now the years left to me I propose to devote to the magazine which I have come here to establish. It will be the largest periodical ever devoted to this field cf literature. and will present the hundred and one questions of hygiene with the simplicity of a child’s talk. To this end all so-called learning will be subordinated. The magazine will be more or less illustrated, and will, strive to reach a high place in the confidence and-hearts of the people. Ina few weeks our first number wDI appear, and we shall fondly hope for it a hearty welcome.” The facts above narrated are indeed most important. It is gratifj ingto know that the life-long experiences of a gentleman who stands without a peer in successfully demonstrat ng the princiules of hygiene; whose heart has always been in sympathy with the afflicted, and whose brain has ever b?en active in planning for their relief, are to be given to the public through the pages of a magazine. And it is specially significant and proof positive of rare merit that proprietaiy medicine, even with such high standing as W; rner’s Safe Cure is known to have, should be indorsed and recommended by a man so able, so reputable and of such national renown as Dr. Dio Lewis.