Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1917 — THINKS FATE RULES LIFE [ARTICLE]

THINKS FATE RULES LIFE

New York Newspaper Man Decidedly Not of Opinion That Man Can Postpone Date of Death. A well-known physician says If a man obeys certain rules, is temperate in all things, doesn’t eat much, exercises, eschews liquors and cuts out tobacco, he will live long. Bon vivants and gourmets who nightly tarry in the vineyards of the Great White Way and eat their fill, who have caroused around for many years, declare that it makes no difference whether one lives the gay or the silent life, one don’t kick off until one’s number is pegged. Some of the most careful livers, they point out, are cut Off in their prime, while hard drinkers, live for years. There is Jim” Brady, for Instance, they say, still-under fifty, ill and the subject of a council of physicians, who. it is hoped, will make him well again. Mr. Brady never drank a drop of liquor to his life. Believing that tea and coffee had a bad effect on the nerves, Mr. Brady did not use either, and he refrained from tobacco. He was a good eater, perhaps ate more than he should, and that was all. Now he is paying the penalty—for what? Is it possible that abstemiousness leads to illness? Who can tell? Not doctors, certainly.—New York Sun.