RULES FOR LONGEVITY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4405, 24 April 1922, Page 1

RULES FOR LONGEVITY.

DOCTOR’S IPSI DIXIT. An eminent doctor summarises the secrete of longevity in the following rules: 1. Eight hours’ sleep. 2. Sleep on the right side. 3. Keep the bedroom window open all night. ' ' •I 1 . Have a mat to the bedroom door. 5. Do not have the bedstead against the wall. 6. No cold tub in the morning, but a bath at the temperature of the body. 7. Exercise belfpre breakfast.. 8. Eat little meat,, and see that it is well cooked. _ ‘ 9. (For adults) Drink no milk. 10. Eat plenty of fat, to feed the ceils which destroy disease germs. 11. Avoid intoxicants, which destroy t hose ceUib 12. Daily, exercise in the open air. 13. Allow np pet animals 5n living rooms—tihey are'apt to carry about disease germs. 14. Live in the country if. possible. 15. Watch .the three ©Ss— drinkingwater, damp, and drains, 16. Change of occupation. 17. Take frequent .and short holidays. 18. Lim.it your ambitions; and 19. Keep your temper. The Hauraki Plains “Gazette” opines that billions people will differ from the worthy, medico in respect to the eating of fat; as for ambition, there is no one in Paeroa suffering from a superfluity that' estimable driving-force. Apart from these two points, the doctor’s ipsi d£xit seems O.K.