THE ROCKEFELLERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8873, 6 November 1907, Page 7

THE ROCKEFELLERS.

If any attempt is made to hold Mr John D. Rockefeller personally responsible for the sins of the Standard Oil Company, he may be able to escape on the ground that he is a. minor. According to his family physician, Dr. 11. F. ttiggar, Mr Rockefeller is now only fourteen years old. A dozen years ago, when he should have been in the prime of life, he was pointed out as the awful example of an American" business wreck. He was supposed to have no stomach and lived on crackers anrVmilk. Now he is sixty-eight, ana "the best trained athlete in the sixty-year old claps in the world today." He has been born twice, physically, the physical! asserts. _ He is growing up again, and growing up scientifically, adding to his muscle, to his lungs, to hia heart power, with every breath of fresh air he takes on Forest Hill, and with every drive he makes with the, golf club." This transformation has been effected by three things—rest, exercise and play. Dr. Biggar's prescription was: "Drop all business cares, take regular exercise, keep in the open air, forget everything but play, and play as though your life depended upon it." It cost Mr Rockefeller £1.000,000— possibly three months' income—to follow directions. That is the amount that got away from him, according t? his estimate by reason of his dropping business cares. But in return he has acquired constitution that bids fair to carry him past the age already reached by H!s mysterious father, who is now 94, says an Amercian exchange. That will give him a new business life longer than the one that has elapsed since the formation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882.