METHUSELAH RECIPE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5190, 12 October 1927, Page 3

METHUSELAH RECIPE.

HOW TO LIVE LONG. Who is the oldest man in the world to-day. According to a Berlin story, the answer is easy. He «s a Kurd called Zaro Aga, at present living in Constantinople, where he has recently as a mark of respect for his seniority been given a job as, usher in the Law Courts. He claims t,o be 145 years' old. Zaro is still active and well, though he was four years old when Frederick the Groat died ; though he was a contemporary of the French Revolution ; and though he was over 50 before the first railway in Europe wa& built. He knows nothing of the rejuvenation theories of Steinach and Voronoff. He eats what seems good to him, and lives quietly as a pensioner should.

He attributes his long life to the fact that lie has had nine wives and outlived them all except one, and who is younger than he by the inconsiderable period of eighty years.

His chief delight is being taken for drives by admirers, for Which he charges a small fee. On his return his sexagenarian wife always takes the money from him, lest it might tempt him to become frivolous. He produces no birth certificate •on the reasonable ground that they did not exist in his young days. But he has been passed as genuine by Dr. Mauqrburg, who points out that other men have been equally longlived ; Henry Jenkins, 169; and Thomas Parr, 1’53. Zaro hopes to beat these records.