HOW TO PROLONG LIFE. 143 



HOW TO PKOLONG LIFE. ^ 



The following should be carefully perused 

 esj^ecially by the young. Are there any among 

 you my young friends, who desire to preserve 

 your health and cheerfulness through life, and 

 at length arrive at a good old age? If so Ksten 

 to what I am about to tell you. 



A considerable time ago I read in one of the 

 newspapers of the day, that a man had died near 

 London at the advanced age of 110 years, that 

 he had never been ill, and that he had main- 

 tained through life, a cheerful^ happy tempera- 

 ment. I wrote immediately to London to 

 know if in the man's treatment of himself there 

 had been any peculiarity which had rendered 

 his ' life lengthened and so happy, and the an- 

 swer I received was as follows: 



"He was unusually kind and obliging to every 

 body; he quarreled with no one; he ate and 

 merely that he might not suffer from hunger or 

 thirst and never beyond what necessity required; 

 from his earliest youth he never allowed himself 

 to be unemployed; these were the only means 

 he used." 



