THE SIMPLE LIFE.
The general public has been given so much expert and conflicting advice regarding the royal road to good health and longevity, and has listened to so many “Thou shalt nets,” from eminent octogenarians, that the dictum ol Sir George Bird wood, a man of heavy tongue in the scientific world, a laureate of the French Academy, and a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Bombay, will be received with rejoicing by the Philistines who reject the simple life. Sir George surprised an interviewer recently by refusing to give any advice on the subject at all, save the old adjuration, “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye die.” He went a little further and stated that he believed the best way of postponing the inevitable end was to take no dietetic thought for the morrow, which perhaps was his way of suggesting that a meticulous care in the matter of diet aud hygiene frequently bespeaks a morbid physical introspection which is inimical to good health.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1082, 1 April 1913, Page 2
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171THE SIMPLE LIFE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1082, 1 April 1913, Page 2
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