HOW TO LIVE TO 150.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1150, 10 June 1911, Page 9

HOW TO LIVE TO 150.

ME. EDISON'S PLAN. "Mr. Thomas Elva Edison, tho famous inventor, who disbelieves in tho immortality'of the soul, declares in nil interview his conviction that the human body is a machine which, if properly treated, is capable of sustaining lite in comfort and enjoyment for 150 years. Ho stated that he himself expccts to live to that age. Tho inventor's confession of his expectations of a long life was olicitn;l by a controversy started by Mr. J. C. Stubbs, of Chicago, a friend and business -associate of the late-Mr. ~E. 11. Harriman, who announces that he will retire on his sixty-fitth birthday. Mr. Stubbs declares: "I am going to retiro because I. want to live," and adds, "all business men ought to retire at sixty-five for their own sakes as well as for the sake of the institutions they serve." According to Mr. Stubbs the reason Mr. Harriman died at a comparatively early age was that ho "worked all day and thought out problems at night." Mr. Edison received an interviewer at his Orange laboratory in New Jersey at the conclusion of a week during which lie had worked seventeen hours a day, including one stretch of forty-eight hours. "I can think," he observed, "twice as much and work twice as long as Mr. Harriman did and Mr. Stubbs does. This is due to the fact that my system of living is based: (1) on proper eating; (?) proper sleeping; and (3) on proper clothing. "Why did Mr. Harriman think in bed? Because he ate too much. Mr. Stubbs and others of his ilk eat as much, though not as wholesomely, as a hod-carrier, without taking any exercise. They choke their engines with too much coal. I eat just as much as I want, and that is very little, Tierhans half a handful of solids at each" meat. The result is that I am asleep thirtv seconds after my head hits the pillow." Mr. Harriman spent four out of eight hours in bed thinking and dreaming. I am in bpd for six .lour?, and all of it is good, solid sleep. I never dreamed in my life. , "I e.m now sixty-four, and can work and think better than ever I did. This talk of retirement is bosh. I have worked since I was twelve, and hope to continue working until T am 150. My Paradise is here on earth. . , "My physical condition is perfect. This is also due in part fo the fact that I clothe myself sensibly." Mr. Edison here kicked off a shoe two sues t"o large, and exclaimed with a chuckle, ho with troupers and shirts. Every vein and artery is thus given a chance to do its wnvk, for none of them is ever pinched. Bactrria starve in my system. They nave abandoned the job of tryn: r { tn fasten Bricht's disease. diabetes, and other sicknesses on me. What vices have If M ell. chewing tobaccn. My wye used to this, but shim she learned that the Chief .Tnfti-o has the same habit she is resigned, and thinks it respectable.