HOW TO KEEP WELL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 96, 11 April 1908, Page 4

HOW TO KEEP WELL

YETEKANS* ADVICE U.S WHAT To EAT. With a view to obtaining suggestions as to the best way to preserve health, ensure happiness, and generate the maximum amount of working power, .Mr. W. T. Stead prints in the current number of the lleview of .Reviews a symposium on " What to eat, drink, and avoid," by well-known men of letter-, scientists, and others who have attained a good age. Appended arc extracts:

Sir Theodore Martin (born 1810) —I always ate sparingly, and required that the food should be cooked carefully. l>ut plainly. After middle age L began toccat.r t . le-s and les* for wine, and for the pa-t twenty yea is a glass of port wine, largely tempered with water, satisfies all my wants. A cup of coffee I have always leund Die best restorative from brain exhaustion, of smoking I have all my life hail an extreme dislike, and get out of Die way of it whenever 1 can.

Dr. Alfred J.n—t'l Wallace (born in lX2;tt.--T'or tlic tir-d seventy years of my life I ate everything or anything I hut I liked. I feel sure ttisit towanls old age alcohol becomes more and more hurtful. Never practised .-tnoking sine.! early youth, when its etlects literally sickened me of it.

Sir William Hoggin- (born in 1521).---I'ats ,i very moderate amount of nic.r, once a day. with a larger 11 10j>>illi 1.1 iv hi eond bread and lariiiaceoti- fond, about ;i pint of mill:. fruit when in and fri'-h vegetables. A- a rule drink' w.ili-i- only, and doe- not -moke.

Sir William (rookie (liorn in 18K).--~ I have iilh.iv- ,-atcn and enjoyed the good things of the table in moderation, and have taken wine and smoked as I liked, without noticing any particular

Lord Itylierts (horn in 1.5:J2).--There -liould b,, little or no smoking, anil niodcration in I I and ilriuk. .Mr. H. Shan (born lSsti).-l have not eaten meat for twrntv-seven years. The result- are l«'foio the public. To a-k tnv experience of smoking is to insult me. Why should you accuse me ot -o tilthy a habit without any evidence that 1 have ever been guilty of it.