Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — Why Some People Live Long. [ARTICLE]

Why Some People Live Long.

Is there a microbe of longevity? It would really seem so from the diversity of courses ascribed by aged people to account for their long lives. Sir Isaac Holden, an ancient man who lately died in England, said he owed the prolongation of his existence to his abstinence from bread. Thomas Whittington lived to 101 years and never drank any liquid except ardent spirits. A centenarian smuggler said his prescription for long life was “wet feet every day and drunk every night.”