Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1918 — Avoid Grouch and Live Long. [ARTICLE]

Avoid Grouch and Live Long.

Writing for the Minneapolis Journal, A. J. R. notes the demise of a Seattle citizen one hundred and three years old, and suggests that one of the reasons why he lived so long- was that he never grouched at the breakfast table or elsewhere. Discussing this, A. J. R. writes

“The enjoyment of breakfast and of the sunrise always comes so easily to me that I sometimes wall in charity for persons who, I have been led to believe, .start the generous day wrong by raising hades at the breakfast table. I will freely wager 75 cents that the Seattle centenarian who lived to be one hundred and three never Insurged at breakfast, never complained of the food, nor sneered at his wife’s cooking.” The aged Seattier ascribed his longevity to his own temper; he had not been angry since he was twenty, and had driven a yoke of oxen most of his life. Also, loved everybody, and everybody loved him.