Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1912 — Compliments. [ARTICLE]

Compliments.

John Drew,, the eminent actor, at the age of 69 looks no more than 35. Complimented on this fact, Mr. Drew said: " "I try to keep my hair on and my stomach off—that is the true secret of perennial youth.” Then he told one of his famous sto rles Illustrative of his horror of oor pulence. "A fat man,” he said, "could not help laughing one day at the ludicrous appearance of a very bow-legged chap —one of those arch-looking chaps, you know. “Though a total stranger, to him, the fat man slapped the bow-legged chap on the back and said:. “*By Jingo, brother, yoqjook as li .you’d been riding a barrel.’ “The bow-legged man smiled and poked his forefinger deep into the fat man’s soft, loose stomach. “’And you look as If you’d bees swallowing one,’ he said.”