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By ELLA Wi.EELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1914, by Star Company. i
- WILCOX. .. I
Several years ago
the received
a letter from a man
one hundred years
old.
At the ape of slx
ty-flve this man had
been old and ill.
Taking himself in
hand at that age, ho
began to live sclentl
flco'ly, according to
his own understand
lng of the
health.
nfiHßnH Ho gave up tea
and coffee, tobacco
al "' alcoholic and
malt drinks; he gave
CSSmm^mASSESS? up meat, tish and
fowl, and lived on cereals, vegetables,
fruit dnd olive oil.
He drank a tablespoonful of olive [
oil five times dally, and gave himself
an olive oil rub twice a day. j
As a consequence u.ll his physical I
ills dropped away. Rheumatism, gout, |
heart and liver weaknesses, sleepless-j
ness, shortness of breath, fatigue, all;
these symptoms vanished.
He gained in strength and vitality,]
and enjoyed life with all the zest of a j
normal youth.
Investigations proved that the man I
had written the truth, and that he had i
passed the century mark, and that his j
only physical ailment at the advanced
age was dimness of vision.
Without question 90 per cent, of the I
people who believe they have reached j
an age when mortal, maladies must
naturally assail them and who are mid- |
<]le-aged sufferers from combinations of j
diseases could be restored to vigor and
health would they follow such rules
of hygiene as this man followed.
The most illustrious example of this,
kind In the world's history was Louis |
Cornaro, the celebrated Italian noble-.
man, who lived to be 103 years old.'
Cornaro was sickly from his birth;
at forty the doctors pronounced him a
complete physical wreck. Their warn
ing that he was doomed to an early
death aroused him to a careful con
sideration of his condition. Ho saw
wherein his manner of life was respon
sible for that condition, and resolved
upon a radical change; he formulated!
a few rules for his method of living, l
which should at least insui that what!
was left of his life should be lived to 1
Excitement of Slight Fire
Causes Death of Woman
Special to The Telegraph
Gettysburg, Pa., March 5. —Mrs. Pe
ter C. Eyler, of near Emmitsburg, died
suddenly from heart failure. Fire was
discovered In the kitchen of the Eyler
home and Mrs. Eyler started to run
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THURSDAY EVENING,
its fullest value.
It was a simple method—easy to fol
low, pleasant In practise. It needed 110
drugs, no expense of time or money.
It proved even more successful than
he had expected—prolonging his life
sixty years beyond the time at which
he had been given up to die!
His falling vigor was restored, his;
enfeebled faculties renewed their vi-!
taltty. He whose condition at forty 1
had been pronounced utterly hopeless
lived with vigorous body and mental
faculties alert to the end of a century.
Cornaro's book, containing a minute
account of his method of living—a
work he finished at the ago of ninety
five —has been translated Into all cul
tivated languages, and will ever be
esteemed a classic and a standard by
the medical profession and the dis
criminating public.
He is the only one who, at the end
of a century, ever wrote—was ever able
to write—a statement, authoritative be
cause based upon experience of the
means by which others with but little
effort on their part could enjoy the un
speakable delights of a long life of
uninterrupted perfect health.
Louis Cornaro selected the diet that
agreed with him, and kept to it. He
did not make the claim that every other
human being should eat and drink ex
actly as he ate and drank, believing
that tastes and appetites and systems
differ.
What he did demand of all sensible
human beings who desire health was
EXTREME TEMPERANCE. Very little
food, very little drink, he found re
stored him .to health after he had been
declared an incurable invalid.
At the age of eighty-eight he said;
"As years multiply I lessen the quan
tity of my food, and I may truly say
that I never knew the world so beauti
ful until I reached old age. Rating
but little, my appetite is normal, and
I keenly enjoy bread, light broths, an
egg and all foodstuffs that are suited
to the old—but always in SMALL
QUANTITIES, and only in quantities
easily digested."
Mr. William F. Butler, the able
translator of Cornaro's book, says: "To
day only one man in 35,000 lives as
long as he could—only one In 160,000
as long as he should. Sickness, pre
mature old age and premature death
are so common that they have come to
be accepted as a necessary part of the
established order of things.
from tho room when she fell uncon
scious. A physician was summoned,
but she died before his arrival. She
is survived by her husband and five
children. The fire was extinguished
without serious damage.
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"But They Are Not!"
Barring accident or some quite ex
ceptional circumstance, there is no ex
cuse for sickness, nor for death from
any cause other than extreme old ago.
As a rule, he who suffers from sickness,
feebleness of falling faculties is alone
to blame—with him rests the remedy.
Woeful evidence of the present univer
sal untimely end of human lives —the
renl race suicide— ls at hand in tho of
ficial figures of "Tho American Table
of Mortality:
"Of every 100,000 persons enjoying
good health at the age of 30, 8,585
are dead before 40; 18,302 are dead be
fore 50; 32,214 are dead before 00;
54,859 (more than half) are dead be
fore 70; 83,000 are dead before 80; 95,-
580 are dead before 85; 99,009 are
dead before 90—only 3 out of every
100,000 men and women in good health
at 30 live to be 95."
And the unhappy close of unhealthy,
shortened lives! "What time is worth?
Ask death-beds; they can tell!"
There are few—very few and hard
to find—who are exempt from sickness■
of some kind, who have any actual and
definite conception of perfect health.
To be free from sickness is to live;
to die before one's time, as most do, is
self-murder!
How easy it is for man to live the
healthy, natural life that avoids pre
mature death is demonstrated in Lulgi
Cornaro's account of his own memor
able experience.
Yet, of the many who will read the
wonderful story of Cornaro's life, what
percentage will be willing to exchange
ill-health and weak old age for vigor
and a youthful body by following his
temperate methods? Not one in 100! j
Hundreds of people who complain !
that the necessities of life, with the
present high cost of living, keep them
in debt, together with their doctor's
bills, could easily do away with doc
tors and ill-health and tradesmen's bills
ai\d lay a tidy sum in tho savings bank
each year by simply using self-control
and changing their diet.
Instead of buying and eating conglo
merations of indigestible stuffs, if they
kept strictly to a few wholesome things
and eliminating the unnecessary and
never partaking of more than two kinds
of food at any one meal, health and
purse would both be benefited.
Selfcontrol, temperance, deep breath
ing, fresh air—these things spell health.
But few are the Individuals who care
to learn the lesson In the way.
New Officers Elected by
Methodist Sunday School
Special to The Telegraph
Mechanicsburg, Pa.. March 6.—Last
evening the annual election of Sunday
suhool officers in the Methodist Epis
copal Church was held and the fol
lowing were chosen for the ensuing
year: Superintendent, T. D. Hummel
baugh; first assistant superintendent,
E. E. Strong; second assistant super
intendent, B. F. M. Sours; secretary,
George W. Hershnian; assistant secre
tary, George Berkhelmer; secretary of
the Sunday school board, B. F. M,
Sours: assistant secretary of tho board,
Miss Myrtle Sours; treasurer. W. E.
Strock; librarian, Samuel Plough; as
sistant librarian, R. It. Thomas, 3d;
organist, Mrs. D. L. Suavely; assistant
organist, Mrs. E. E. Strong; chorister,
B. F. M. Sours; superintendent of pri
mary department, Miss Maude K. Wil
liamson; assistant superintendent,
Miss Claire Fryslnger; superintendent
of home department, Mrs. C. Egbert
Brlndle; superintendent of the cradle
roll, Miss Myrtle Sours, Among other
business transacted was the election
of Mrs. Samuel Plough and Mrs. E. E.
Strong as delegates to the Sunday
school convention to be held in Ship
pensburg on Thursday and Friday,
March 12-13, B. F. M. Sours. Miss
Julia Heffletlnger and Mrs. C. E. Um
berger were appointed a committee on
resolutions on the death of Mrs. Julia
T. Owen.
Loyal Temperance Legion
Enjoys Social Meeting
Waynesboro, Pa., March 5. —Last
evening the session of the Loyal Tem
perance Legion was devoted to a so
cial and a lot of work of practical na
ture and the program was novel to
the members.
There were seventy-five children
present and the regular business meet
ing and literary exercises were omitted
to make room for the social and other
new features, which the children en
joyed heartily.
Mrs. W. L. Widdowson took sixteen
of the larger girls into a vacant room
and began the practice of a flag drill,
which will Introduce the play that will
be given by the Loyal Legion the latter
part of April.
The remainder of the children were
divided into four groups and enter
tained by Miss Clay Wertz, Mrs. Frank
Boomer, Mrs. L. H. Maxwell and Miss
Alice Good. The smaller children were
occupied in pasting anti-cigaret and
anti-saloon cartoons In palm leaf fans,
the purpose of the teachers being to
give these fans to the children's ward
of some hospital, where other chil
dren who are not L. T. L. members
may study these pictures and catch
somewhat the spirit of the wideawake
L. T. L. of Waynesboro. Refreshments
of ice cream and cake were served to
the children.
PIGEONS HATCH CHICKEN
Marietta, Pa., March 5. ln the
lofts of the Marietta Pigeon Farm a
pair of racing homers were given a
chicken egg three weeks ago, and they
brought forth a chick yesterday. This
is the first time on record that a pair
of pigeons was known to hatch five
days over the time it requires to hatch
pigeon eggs. The cold weather froze
the chick, although it was perfectly
formed and hardy. Tho experiment
was tried many times, but the birds
would always leave their nest after
the seventeenth day, the time required
for pigeon eggs to hatch.
DOUGHTY DISCOVERIES
A dispatch from Norfolk, Neb., to
the newspapers of the country, last
October, read:
"A baseball batted into a cornfield
thirty-eight years ago by E. K. Ballan
tyne, later seargeant-at-arms in the
United States Senate, was found near
here to-day when excavations were
being made for a new building. Tills
was the first league baseball ever
bought for north Nebraska."
Of course, this story is true. A good
companion for it may be expected
within the next few days, as follows:
"The'first bullet fired at Armaged
don by Theodore Roosevelt was found
near Tuscaloosa this morning. It Is
the missile which split the solid
South."
Or this:
"A satin slipper, small as nothing
ness and plnlc as the first flush of
dawn, was dragged out of the Schuyl
kill river, near Philadelphia, at 11
o'clock last night. It is the first slip
per ever kicked off an actress' foot by
accident. The catastrophe befell Miss
Dolly Llghtfoot, in the old Walnut
Street Theater two hours after the
battle of Manassas."
Or this:
"The base which Merkle did not
touch in that famous league game was
discovered in tho bottom of an old
trunk in a deserted house In Harlem
ihjfl afternoon. It was learned that the
'trunk belongs to John McGraw."—The
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
JAPANESE SLEEVES
SHOWKEVERYWHEIIE
Lace Combined Prettily With Soft
Silk or Crepe in Girl'*
Frock
| ' BIBS GW Drasa.
10 to 14 years.
WITH STRAIGHT SKiRT AND TUNIC.
ELBOW OR LONG SLEEVES.
Tunic tracks are the smartest of all
things for school girls as well as for the
bigger folk and Japanese sleeves are in
the height of style; therefore this frock
, is one much to be desired. As shown here,
it is made of lace with crCpe de chine and
• worn with a wide ribbon belt. For dancing
I school or for parties or for any occasion
I of the 6ort, the combination is a charming
I one but fundamentally the model is sini-
I pie and, in the back view, it is shown
: made of plain and figured challis to be
come just a plain little afternoon dress.
Besides being extremely smart, the frock
is extremely simple. The Japanese
sleeves are really the delight ol the home
dressmaker, for they do away with all
fitting and the little skirt and tunic
require only to be gathered at their upper
edges.
for the j 2 year size, the dress will
require yds. of material 27, yds.
1H yds. 44 in. wide, with 3 yds. of
ouncing 19 in. wide, to make as shown
on the figure; or with 3 yds. of figured
material 27, yds. 36, 1 yds. 44 in.
wide to make as shown in the back view,
I yd. of ruffling.
The pattern of the dress 8188 is cut
in sizes for girls from 10 to 14 years of
age. It will De mailed to any address by
tne Fashion Department of thib paper,
an receiut of ten cenha.
Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns.
RECEPTION M)R NEW MEMBERS
Special to The Telegraph
Blain, Pa., March s.—On Tuesday
evening the Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union held a pleasant recep
tion to welcome the new members.
I t j
i Mk now electrically sealed with a '*
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$ / '/II appetite and diges
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Ii Klein Company take pleasure in an- jfj
nouncing their First Anniversary Sale |j;
at which Spring Fashions for Women |j
and Misses will be introduced. Open- ;
ing Days, Friday and Saturday, March if":
6th and March 7th. A practical but
elegant exhibition wherein Suits, Coats,
Dresses, Hats and other wearing ap
parel will be shown in a most attrac- ||
tive way. V
KLEIN CO. I
New Store for Women 1
9 N. Market Sq. I
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which took place in the vacant Hench
storeroom in Ilailroeid street. Over
sixty members attended and enjoyed
the social event. Miss Hazel G. Hench,
Miss Caroline Averili and Miss Evelyn
Smith recited; prayer was offered by
Samuel Reen, and David P. StoUes
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MARCH 5,1914.
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made an address. 'A luncheon of ice
cream, cake and homemade candies
was served. The signing of the pledges
was part of the business attended to
during the evening. The union is pro
gressing, the membership now being
about eighty.
NEW POSTMASTER AT MONT A I/TO
Waynesboro, Pa., March 5. - The
newly appointed postmaster of Mont
Alto, D. M. Brown, will enter upon the
duties of his office April 1. The loca
tion of the post office has not yet been
determined upon.
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