Why not Live a Century?

Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1896, Page 3

Why not Live a Century?

» " In the comig time," said a famous English poet, " a man or woman eighty or one hundred years old will be more beautiful than the youth or maiden of twenty, as the ripe fruit is more beautiful and fragant than the green. Thes« ripe men and women will have no wrinkles on the brow, no grey hair, no bent and feeble bodies. On the contrary they wilr have perfect hearing, clear eyesight, sound teeth, elastic step, and mental vigour." Does this sound absurd and impossible ? Why should it ? People over one hundred years old are frequently met with in these days, as they have been as far as human records go back. A man is of no real value until he i 3 past fifty and gained control of his passions and acquired some practical wisdom. After that he ought to have from fifty to seventy-five working years before him. Wheso dies short of one hundred (bar violence) dies of his own folly or that of hie ancestors. One chief thing, however, we must learn. What is it ? Take an illustration — suoh as we see multitudes of on every side. Mr Richard Leggatte of New Bolingbroke, near Boston, Lincolnshire, is a man sow somewhat over seventy. He is a farmer, well-know.n and highly respected

in his district. In the spring of 1861 he had an attack of influenza from which he aovfir fully recuperated. The severe syrapt(? .13 passed away, of course, bnt he. remained" weak. No doubt food would have built him up provided he could hate fiatefl and digested ft. Yet there was the trouble, his appetite was poor, and what little he took, ao a matter of neoesiity rather than pf relish, seemed to twt wrong with him. Instead of giving him strength It actually ptddueed paiti atid distress id the tides, finest, arid titottfton 1 ! Then again— which w a oomniofi exp"enence—he would feel a craving for something to eat ; yet on sitting down to ft meal in the hope to enjoy it, the stomach would Suddenly rebel against the proceeding, and he would turn from the table without having swallowed a motithfbli Nothing could come of this but liloreas* ing weakness, and it wasn't long before it was all he could do to summon strength to Walk about; As for working on his farm, thai to be atlfe, tfas not to be thought of. He had a doctor attending him, as we should expect. If the servicei of a learned medidal man are ever needed they must be in Such a case—when nature seems to be all broken up, and the machinery runs slow, as our family olocßS do When we hate forgotten to wind them at the usnal honr. Well, Mr Leggatte took the prescribed medicines, but got no better. He asked the doctor why that was, and he appeared td be puialed for an answer at first. Haturttlly etiotlgh it doctor doesn't like td admit that his mediciflefi arg doing Co good, be. cause he expect* to be paid for them j ana then there is his professional pride, besideß. . „ However, he finally said, " If my mcdi* (tides fail td malte you better it is owing to you 1 * agfl;'' THrit iflda was plain as pikestaff, and if the patieriibaaneter got better afterwards, why who could dispute what the doctor said? Nobody, of course. It would look just as though Mr Legatte were really going to pieces from old age. But something subsequently happened which spoils that easy theory of the daSfl. What it was he telld us in a letter dated February 3rd, 1993. •' After doctoring, several months without receiving any berieflj, 1 deterndined . to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I got a bottle from Mr G. H. Hanson, Chemist, New Bolingbroke. After taking the Syrup for a week I was muoh better. I had a good appetite, and what I ate digested and strengthened me ; and by the time I had taken two bottles I was well and strong a$ ever* You may publish this statement if you think proper. (Signed) Bibhard Leggate." So it proved, after all, that Mr Leggate was not suffering from old age (at seventy ? What nonsense !), but from indigestion and dyspepsia. When Mother Seigel'd great discovery routed that, he felt " well and strong as. ever." Now for the moral: It is not Father Time who mows people down thus early in life ;it is the Demon of Dyspepsia. Keep him away, and— barring accidents— you may live a century.

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