Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1913 — SECRET OF HEALTH [ARTICLE]

SECRET OF HEALTH

Hale Scotchman Tells How to Pass Century Mark. Leslie Fraser Duncan, Age Ninetytwo, a Resident of London, Declares People Eat Too Much—He Lives on Two Meals a Day. London.—The secret of health and long life is two meals a day. That has always been my rule, and” —as If to clinch the matter—"l’m the tallest Scotchman In London —six feet six inches in my socks!” “Leslie Fraser Duncan, ninety-two, with flowing white beard and a face glowing with health, thus gave the secret of his vigor. "I began It as a boy,” he said. "From when I was five years old, at my birthplace near Elgin, I used to walk six miles to school and six miles back, every day for twelve years— Just 400,000 miles in all—and that was on two meals a day. At eight In the morning I breakfasted on porridge, milk and barley scones. Then I had nothing till about eight In the evening, when I had more porridge or brose. On that fare I grew to be six feet tall at sixteen, strong and hearty, and now f am six feet six inches. "In 1845 I came to London, and all through a busy career of fifty years I worked twelve and fifteen hours a day. Now I get up at noon, and my invariable diet, on which I hope to pass the century, for I am well and happy, to: "One o’clock—Breakfast, three boiled eggs, tea, and three slices of thin bread and butter. "Two o'clock —Glass of milk. "Four o’clock—Glass of milk. "Five o'clock —Tea, one boiled egg. tea and thin bread and butter. k t . . “Eight o’clock —Dinner, one boiled egg and thin bread and butter. “I have not touched meat for seven years, and I did not eat it until 1 was twenty. 1 never smoked, except for a

year when I was a young man in Edinburgh, and I have rarely touched alcohol. For years my drinking has been confined to four glasses of champagne a year—one on my birthday, one on my wife's birthday, one on Christmas day, and one on New Year's day. “It is true that my business career was confined to the days before modern rush, and I have never used a telephone; but it is over-eating, not rush, that ages men. They tell me that they feel old at fifty—and then I find they eat five meals a day!**