Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — Mr. Wu’s Rules for Longevity. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Wu’s Rules for Longevity.

The delightful Mr. Wu Ting-fang, lately ambassador from China to the United States, is described In Miss Juliet Bredon’s book on her uncle, Sir Robert Hart, as having certain theories concerning one’s diet and one’s mental attitude toward life which have had much currency, among Occidentals of late years.

Wu Ting-fang prided himself upon his alert manner, which made him appear much younger than «e really was, and his favorite boast was that he meant to live to be two hundred. Furthermore, he would explain how the feat was to be accomplished.

The first thing, naturally, was diet, The man who would cheat time should live on nuts, like the squirrels. Under no conditions should he touch salt, and he should begin and end eacn meal with a teaspoonful of olive oil.

"I have hung scrolls in my bedroom,” Wu Ting went on to explain, “with these sentences written upon them in English and in Chinese: *1 am young, I am healthy, I am,cheer fuL’

“Immediately I enter the room my eye falls upon these precept*. I say to myself, ‘Why, of course I am, and therefore I am.”’ Was ever simpler or saner method discovered for warding off old age?