LONG LIFE AND MERRY ORE.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 14 July 1904, Page 6

LONG LIFE AND MERRY ORE.

~i • J AMriaMa Wko •*!f;i-fiianai OmtUt» m» IWowi Who Are It aeema "that we are all wrong '! about the hurtful and life-shortening effect of American* "Hiustle." Our .nan lional motto may be, said to have been,? . "A abort life, but a strenuous... one." We are willing, as a people. - to hay* the span shortened a little if only we could have something, worthiolEfeSte tfflWtffo&Qg active an-l r effective, going all the time. But it.. seems, according to,the latest bull*;, tin of the census, bureau, that tie fast li{e'.la.Wl6>ineJlong one, says , Harper's Weekly. Our "median ajr" —that is, the age which is such that half the population is under It and hair c*ir than -aeve n~ years greater than it was a century ago, and from decade to decade. We t are Surpassing easy-go-ing foreign countries in this respect; we are surpassing even „th.e loose-jointed, indolent, beautifully relaxed, never-worrying. African in our midst; for" whereas the median age' of oup American whites.is 23.4 years,that of the devil-may-care colored person is bfJUttT~~Xatf-ly much cafFZ fusion has arisen in the minds of many Americans- ovet the statement •'3 4a by certain' "*Tcm"inent neuroloV*»ta that it is next to impossible fnr a pitua.to "overwork," provided ■•i.«i bodily functions are-kept in good order oy temperate and wholesome living. Other physicians, to be sure, tell us that hurry and worry • spell death. We have accepted the latter qualifying reflection thafc» px| what science: tells nH t * It" -arwaya v aeems to have "another thing coming." This census bulletin which links the long life ■ with the fast one appears to be the other "think."