Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1883 — A VETERAN BENEFACTOR. [ARTICLE]

A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.

His Past Life, Present Plans, and What He Has to Say Upon a Subject That Astonished Him. [From the New York Times.] Nearly forty years ago a' young man, of unusual endowments, began to mould public opinion upon a subject of vital importance. like all pioneers, his early efforts were unsuccessful, but his ability “id the value of his work soon won public confidence, and to-day there is not a village or hamlet in the country that has not been influenced by Dr. Dio Lewis. When, therefore, it was learned yesterday that he contemplated the establishment of a large magazine in this city, the fact was deemed so important that a representative of this paper was commissioned to see him and ascertain the truth of the rumor. Dr. Dio Lewis is a gentleman of 60 years and 200 pounds, with snow-white hair and beard, but probably the most perfect picture of health and vigor in the metropolis. He is a living exponent of his teachings, and, notwithstanding the amount of work he baa already done, promises still greater activity for years to come. He received the interviewer most courteously, and in. reply to a question said: “It is true I have come to New York to establish a monthly magazine. I have come here for the tame reason that I went to Boston twenty-flve yea s ago. Then Boston was the best platform in the country from which to speak of education. New fork has now become most hospitable to progressive thoughts, and especially so to movements on behalf of phy. lea’ training. “I have reason to know the great and abiding interest of the American, people in this subject. They have come to realize that the future of our country pivots upon our physical vitality, and especially upon the vigor of our women. My new magazine will bear the title Dio Lewin'k Monthly, and be devoted to Sanitary and Social Science. I hope through its pages to inaugurate a new departure in hygiene. ” “Have you not written several books on the subject?” “Yes, nine volumes, and some of them like Our Girin, published by the Harpers, have had an enoimous circulation, but the best work of my life I shall give the world in the new nia/azine. Forty years of skirmishing ought to conclude with ten years of organized warfare.” “Doctor, what is the occasion of this new interest in health questions?” “It has come through suffering, which seems the only road t • self-knowledge The stomach, heart, kidneys or liver fall into trouble, happiness i< gone, and then people give attention to their health. ” “Which of these organs is most frequently the victim of ,our ertorsl” asked the reporter. "Within the last few years diseases of the, kidneys have greatly multiplied. When I was engaged in practice, thirty-five and forty years ago, serious disease of the kidneywas rare; but now distressingly frequent and fata .”

“'Io what do you attribute this great in-, crease of klduey troubles?” “To the use of stimulating drinks, adulterated food and ii regular hnD.ts of life. ” ‘ Doctor, have you any confidence in the remedy of whieh we hear so much now a days, ‘Warner’s Safe Care*” - “I believe in the ounce of prevention, rather than a ton of cure” “But have you now ed the remarkable testimonials of Warner’s remedy?” “I have, and confess taat they have puzzled and as.onished me. The commendations of proprietary medicines usually come from unknown persons reading in back coan.ies. But I see in our most reputable newspaj era the warmest praise of Warner's Sate Cure from College Professors, respectable physicians, and o.her persons of high in elugence and character. To thrust such testimony t side may be professional, but it is unmanly. No physician can forget that valuable additions to oar Materia. Medico, have' si rung from just such sources. I was soimpre-sed with this cloud of witnesses that i purchased some bottles of Warner's Safe Cure at a neighboring drug store, and analysed one cf them to see if it contained anything poisonous. Then I took three of the prescribed doses at once, and found there was nothing injurious in it I do not hesitate to say that if I found my kidne.i s in serious troub e 1 should use this remedy, because oc the hopelessness of all ordinary treatment, and because when a hundred intelligent and reputable i er.-ons units in the statement that a certain remedy has cured them of a grave ma aly I choose to believe that they speak the truth ” “But, as you may know, my great interest in life les in prevention. For forty years I have labored in this field. Cue of the pha~ds of my work in New England was »the establishment of the Ladies' Seminary at Lexington, Mas-. My aim was to iHus.rate the pos-» sibid'.ks in the phy ind training of girls darn; tbe r school life. This Institution became, before I left it, the largess and most successful seminary for voung women, owned managed by one person, in our countiy. I sat do an to dinner every day with a family of 201 ] ersons. The remarkable results of this muscle training among girls were given in my paper published in the North American Review of December. 1882. “Beside, I established tbe Normal Institute for Physical Traiijing in Boston, end for ten yeai s was its President and Manager. Dr. Walter Channing, Dr. Thoma r Hoskins, Prof. Leonard and others were among its t ambers, and more taan 400 persons took >ts diploma and went out into all parts of tae land to teach the new i chord of gytnna-d.cs. And now the years left to me I pr.ipose to devote to th J magazine which I have come here to establish. It will be the large <t' periodical ever devoted to this fie.d < f literature, and will present the hundred and one questions of hygiene with the simplicitv of a ch ld's talk. To this end all so-called learning will be subordinated. The magazine will be more or less illustrated, and will strive to reach a high place in the confidence and hearts of the people. In a few weeks our first number will appear, and we shall fondly hope for it a hearty welcome.” The facts above narrated are indeed most important It is gratifyingto know that the life-long experiences of a gentleman who stands without a peer in successfully demonstrate ng the principles of hygiene; whose heart has always been in sympathy with the afflicted, and whose brain has ever b?e_ active in planning for their relief, are to be given to the public through the pages of a magazine. And it is specially significant und proof positive of rare merit that proprietary medicine, even with such high standing as Warner’s Safe Cure is known io have, should be indorsed and recommended by a man so able, so reputable and of such national renown as Dr. Dio Lewis.

A New York newspaper man hearing the fire engines on the pavement below, stepped to the telephone, rang up police headquarters and asked: “Is our office on fire ?” “No, ” wae the reply, “It’s a little building round the corner.* Thus satisfied at not having to go down stairs to find out, he went back to his work. —————— ——- -v Americans run the horse cars and manage the telephone. in Mazatlan, Mexico.