WORLD’S HAPPIEST MAN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3493, 22 May 1920, Page 3

WORLD’S HAPPIE ST MAN.

VWHAT D. R-OCKEF]:)I.L.ER FEELS

LIKE AT 80.

i “lain the happiest man in the world l——it seems to be that I have just be- ! gun to live! "’ ' ' This is the jovial niessage \\'hi_eh ;\Lx|.T. D. Roekel"e]lel' has just givgn_ro a {reporter who asked him what it felt. Hike to be over 80 after so strenuous ' a life as his. The state of health of Mr Rockefeller, who ce‘lebl'ated his 80th bilthdny in Juy, has been giving his friends some coneel'n_. but the mutimilionaire, 1.1 will be seen, is himself in buoyant. .<pil'its. “I have read in the ne\\'.~‘p:!pel'.~' th:l'( I am lonesome,” said “John D," as :11], America knows hiin,” but that isn't so. I have In)’ health yet, and that best of :11]. I have 'lO be cm-9. fix] in diet, but. I eat all tliings that agree with me.” ‘ Mr Rockefeller disclosed the fuetfl that he was writing his ziiitobiogrziphy. For over two yozuaa: he has dictated to ' his s(_‘(3l'etzll'y for an hour or more e\'ers' i morning. He underfoot: wl'iting his untobio-I gl*3ph;v :1; the request of his son, who! sent the see*_'et:n'_V to see him. “He‘ crunc and Mikael with me; the next! day he bl‘ollg‘ht his Trunk To my house. I He has been with me ever since.” He works on‘ tile :.mtol‘»i()gl'ap]ly 0:11-15’ in the niorning, nearly always bofm-ev bu-:Lk’r':l.<t. when his mind is ele,al'est.l He s:l_\'.s he 11:16. no diflienlty in re--eulling‘ the most minute det:li‘.s of’ the‘ histol'y of oil. Interwoven in the story D will be mention of his vzxrions :IC‘ti--vities as Smidny school snpel~intem‘l-i ent, I'eminiseenees, and m1e('dot(~?.~: oti the men who were associated with him J in great entei-prises. and some account of his philzm‘rhl'opies. It was fine mental e.\'el'ei.so, he s.-zitlz am} he was sul'pl'ised after .stul'l'ing it. how \'i\-‘idly t':1(-its and fip;lll'es, sub-i stam-es of CO!l\'ol‘S2li"iOl]S, and ineidentsi came up in his mind. _'l‘his ple:.lsed him ; very much. ' ‘ “Do you I<rmw." he said,‘ “I” fnll_v believe my mind is as actix-'0 as it xvasi ttxventy _\'e=:ll's.:lgo." ' J I