THE PRIME OF LIFE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 132, 14 January 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE PRIME OF LIFE.

A patient visited a well-known physician in London recently to consult him- 'He was getting pretty well on in years, and seemed greatly concerned about his failed vitality. "Well, you see. said the modi, ca] expert after asking him sundry searching questions. "You are not as young as you used to be." "Oh. but doctor. I'm still a comparatively young man:" he exclaimed.. "Ah. just so: how old are you?" asked the physician. "Sixty-eight, doctor, only sixtyeight: comparatively" young, you see." "Thai may be. but still you :\v, not as young as you used to be." "Oh, but 1 come of a long-liud family, doctor, a long-lived family.' "Ah! is that so? Have none oi your family died young " asked the doctor: "your father, or a brother, for instance?" "No, doctor, my father lived to the ripe eld age of eighty-six. and all my brothers .ire older than 1. and are still strong, healthy men." Feeling distinctly floored, the physician again pressed the point. "Think again, are you perfectly certain that none of your family died young?" "Ah. well, now I think of it. doctor, there was Fnde John: yes, I'nelo John was certainly an excel"ion. He died, let me see. yes. he died in his prime at seventy-five."