TO MAKE THE CENTURY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3500, 31 May 1920, Page 3

TO MAKE THE CENTURY.

lk. Ha_,ying reacl,led._,:tlle.l-ipe age.of_7ol and being <lesil'ou.< of,living to- still} greater age, Edwin Fx'allcis Holmes, of Brooklyn, 1".5.A.. has «lrawn up an :Igl'eolnont l)g.‘l'\vec.‘n liis hear] and his llom.'t. V _ ‘ He had calculated that during his‘ life limo his heart had ,<l_‘i,ven‘ him| suulo 2.000.00(),()O0.0(l_0 13;e?1.t5.3 Hsl. figmod it had (lone. a“gz'o'()Q,_fjq'9 5:;31_1y,l de-l served the best; tl'e,atlllel;.t._ posesiblei in its old age. _. 1 So he (lx-cm" up a cmlt'r:n:t', tho! (‘.l:lllFC>‘. of wllicll stiplllafu that he is‘ 10 be ivnxpvrvxte I'l‘. c3:ltirlf_g‘ and drinking and all pi-_=asuro.~;, to sleep at least eight hours in the twonf_v-folll', to nminluin a. vlean bddy i'llldr.{l‘§fn_‘(}o]lfouled n_lin(l_.'m I'ofr:lih f‘-o;_n1 la.0:1t'o<l ~<l.is(:nssion on polil‘l(i§3_-.»u1"“;rglig&‘011, and to avoid "rich foods can little meat or pasfry, and to eat slowly. The penalty for lm>a‘(-.h. of- this zxgroonmnt is thuf the said second ‘party (the lmmll “sh:1ll f_'m-feil‘ to the said p:11'~1y all rig‘llf_. title and interost in its muscles, al'fel'les_. capillaries. veins and ‘Valves "thereto at- - l:1c.l1e(l, unrl the same m:ly’b»3 placed hy the cn.~'l'odians tlxc-roof in some clark Cl'l2lll]b8)'. to rmnain for a period of :1 tlmnsaml y(_"3.1'.~; and (,l:.l_V. moun-

ing for ever.” , v The contract Iras' been. rVgidljßjt kept for six years, lie clai'msr and/fhe.' confidently expects to live to 100.