MODERN HUSTLE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5305, 27 July 1928, Page 3

MODERN HUSTLE.

EFFECT ON LONGEVITY. DO WE LIVE LONGER? Do we Hve longer than we; did in the days, when .life was fan more placid, more leisurely ? the hurqiexl pace, have the vastly increased number of our interest and the gi’eatau-demands made on body and mincFalike had the effect of lengthening ’pstead of reducing the allotted span ? It looks yei'y much like it. The Archbishop of Canterbury rcr' cently celebrated his 80th birthday, and the' “Daily Chronicle” to,ok the opportunity to glanoe at some of Eng□And’s most notable old men who arc {still active. Not all of them active in their professions, fori most of these, ■uplike the Church have age limits. But all of them vigorous in intellect and physically energetic, all of them contributing something to the com- , mon stock of ideas. In. publie, life, there .are two politicians close on 80 who are full of zest, still taking a prominent part'in the proceedings of Parliament. Earl BalfQur will be 80 in July ; Mr T. PO’Connor will be 80 1 in October. The former plays la,wn tends, takes ■ journeys to the South of France, goes to concerts, reads the new books and talks of them with undiminished critical acumen. Mr O’Connor thinks nothing of a_ trip across the Atlantic. He edits a weekly paper, he. sits ip judgment on photo-plays as a film dbtfensor. he contributes to many peri- < odicals. in addition to discharging his duties as Father of the House of Commons. , Of the medical profession, Sir. James Crichton,-Bro,wn’e is the oldest member prominent in the public eye. He is 88, and he maintains that, all average, healthy people- should live to a hundred. Business men do not, as a rule, very long survive, their retirement. An except'on to that rule i's Sir Hugh Bell, who is 84 an,d who has never, ne‘ tired. He returned recently trip to Egypt; partly business, partly pleasure, every minute; of which, he declares,, he thoroughly enjoyed. literary life is clea.nly one, '’which tends towards health and length of . days, so long as it. does not drive men to alcohol as a whip to flagging, invention or a sedative to jangled nerves. The Poet Laureate is hale and hearty at 83. Mr George Moore youthful at 76, and Mu Havelock Ellis a merie boy of 69 I Yet in the last century they would all have been reckoned remarkably long livehs for literary men,. Naval nonagenarians are irare, birds. Admiral Sir Edmund Fremaptle, at 92, is able to go to public dinners, to t ake the chair at public meetings, and to read without glasses. “Admirals nowadays,” he says, “do not take enough risk.” He would I’ke to show them—even, at 92 ! 1 Lawyers often pass the three-score j-ears-and-ten mark, but they do hot often keep their faculties as bright a< theiii memories as sharp as are those of Sir. Edward Pollock, who is g 87. Ldrd Phillmore is another distinguished lawyer in hi|S 83rd year. . Old age ‘has not made him sentimental. He is strongly opposed to making prisons “Comfortable.” They ought not, he declares, -to be “homes of rest.” - Two favourite actors who must be included in our survey ajUe Sin Johnstone Forbes-Robertson : and (Mn ‘William Farren. Neither of them is still acting but they ,are full of life in other- directions;