Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — How to Live Long. [ARTICLE]

How to Live Long.

Why not let’s all be centenarians. Dr. Richardson, an'eminent English scientist, says there is no reason why a large number of people may not live until they are a hundred or a hundred and twenty years old, and then have the bloom of youth on their cheeks. He advances the idea that the majority of people die for inadequate reasons, and with unnecessary promptitude, and that it would be a comparatively easy matter for us to acquire the art of living much longer than we do and of getting more physical enjoyment out of life. Briefly stated his Ideas of the means to be employed to attain such an end are a life of serene cheerfulness and scientific physical culture. He looks upon extreme physical vigor as an art to be learned like dancing or whist. The muscles may be cultivated like early vegetables, and with results almost as astonishing. Nobody need be afflicted with a torpid liver, imperfect lungs or flaccid muscles. In every man there is t. possible Hercules. Man may make his body a finely strung and exquisitely poised machine, with every part graceful in contour and in a state of perfect working efficiency, and this will result in the indefinite widening of the span of life. He argues that no man need be particularly abstemious in regard to the use of any particular food, all that is necessary is the cultivation of a happy disposition linked with plenty of sleep, physical exescise, and that all appetites shall be temperately indulged. Breathing should be done scientifically and a daily cold bath should bo taken.