Show a. a r l t 6 6 e 0 J Farill- Farill 0 st i r i t e t. t r Is i il I I Says Annie Peck the Worlds World's Greatest Woman Mountain Climber Who Tells Why rier Her 11 1 Three Brothers Have Celebrated the e Fiftieth 1 u 4 Anniversary of Their Graduation From From o rota ay r George r e B B. B Peck Father of Annie Peck Pecks College and College an Are r Still t Going g Strong i I He Died at the Age of 74 71 LD FASHIONED ID-FASHIONED folk frequently sigh siO for lor forI fora I c OLD FASHIONED a return of o othe the the good Tood old days while we wo woof of the present generation think how much 1 I more enjoyable the living Ihring conditions condition arc are tO today t r than they were when grandmother was teas a g girl rl t And if il grandmother is appealed to for a an opu opinion ton she he 8 sighs reminiscently and says that while scientific life feeding hygiene rapid transit and other modern improvements may have contributed greatly to our bodily comfort comfor she still thinks think that in the lithe good old days people seemed more con eon contented tented even though they f fared more simply raised larger fam families cs seemed scorned healthier and lived happ hap hap- 1 I p lI to a ripe rip old age I Annia Annis S. S Peck the famous mountain climber who icho is now new preparing for fm- h her er second ascent o of oJ f J Mt lt feet high is qualified to speak Peak of 01 the good goed old days MYS for her Tzer mother was ua wasa a J strong believer in old fashioned methods of 01 ra rais raising ing inD a fam family y and she apparently applied these methods suc successfully Three sons still halo and hearty hearts after alter passing tins tho allotted three score core years lIcar cars and ten are arc evidence of 01 that fact Another imI important important im im- im- im I puce piece of 01 evidence is their sister kister Annio S. S Pt Peek Peck And Miss Peck Pock who tells hors here how WW she and her brothers ra raised ed according to old old- old old-fash fh as toned methods c plains explains interestingly the important tant tant relationship p of o health to happiness in the i ami am u life and also why the healthiest family is the happiest rJ t elf By Clive Olive Marshall h RECENT incident probably unique in th Zt annals of pf college commencements commencements- deserve rc- rc I lor cr publicity than the brief chronicle of a local er er since it has a practical interest for us all Always at It commencements commencement there is mention of an m oldest grad alive somewhere usually in m ini 1 c i nineties while on the ground are a n good many rather old boys a few w of whom are arc celebrating ifie anniversary of their graduation The usual circumstance is ib this f At one commencement last June where a aV at V t youthful j ul stripling of 71 years was enjoying his ann anniversary with some of his surviving class- class 1 nl mates tes there stood by so to speak his two older df t 3 d Ir f Mt I 4 t f. f n n r f Photo Copyright by Harper d Bros Bro Mt 1 Huas Perpetually Snow-Clad Snow and Feet High 0 Was Vas Climbed b by r Annie Peck She Is the Only V Woman oman Who rho Ever Attempted That Daring Feat and Now She Is Preparing to Climb the Mountain 1 Again The Photograph Was Vas Taken from froman an Altitude of of Feet Pock Pick P ck how flow it happened whether it came as the result re- re suit sult of or natural endowment and extraordinary physique or from a mo mode e of life which others mi might ht follow with similar effect I am happy indeed said Miss Peck to lito havethe havethe have havethe the opportunity of explaining this matter in the hope that some persons especially mothers may profit thereby Those who prefer a short life and anda a merry one as ns they call it will not be interested but any who believe that sane enjoyment and usefulness usefulness use use- for or a longer period are rather to be dc- dc sired may find it easily attainable Our family comes of the best old New Eng Eng- gastritis we called it bilious fever until I entered entered en en- my teens but almost never thereafter We Ve lived a simple life plain living and to some extent high thinking was our portion There were not so many frills in those days and we all found time to read My mother I remember took Halls Hall's Journal of Health by which she doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- less les profited having besides a great deal of plain common sense First and foremost we were taught obedi obedience nce and self Whether we wished or not it was always not with me we went to bed bcd at 7 o'clock until at the age of 8 or or 9 0 we reached the t f l P i of 4 4 r l f i f. f ML Jt A l J f. f r i f J. J 1 r i t f i t. f 3 t. t t 1 I. I I 1 It I t 1 i J t. t r r t lt J Ij I a ar y S fi Jo v J p r y r r r i r r I 11 J. J r. r t t 0 i i M W r. r 1 t Jf 7 1 tl O cL Annie Peck from Photograph Taken at 20 Years of Age three ears cars apiece later in the season sweet po po- Griddle cakes corn bread and other warm foods rye drop cakes milk or cream toast were also breakfast fare but never hot biscuit or warm wann raised white bread which my mother i ANNIE PECKS PECK'S THREE BROTHERS WILLIAM f JOHN AND GEORGE WHO VHO GRADUATED MORE 1 THAN HALF A CENTURY AGO ri C 1 j oJ rw i I St 1 i I 1 I at S 4 t r William T. T as He Looked Before Defore Graduation and as asHe John B BM B. at the Time of His Graduation and Today Bs B.'s He e Looks Today at 72 Years George Graduation Photo Taken in m 1864 and His at 75 Years of Age Latest Photo at 77 Years of Age brothers who in 1914 and 1916 had celebrated I theirs theirs- Stranger still atm the father of these three who in 1876 entertained his half dozen surviving classmates graduated from the same sarno college in iu 1826 To many the country over this record will havo have havon havea n a more personal note when they learn that it is of the family of Annie Annio S. S Peck the famous mountain climber cUmber holder now for 12 j years ears cars of tho the altitude record in mountaineering feet o of i all aU North and South America Mothers Mother's Old-Fashioned Old Ways O Of course she expects at some later date to celebrate the Ithe anniversary of her own grade grade- This no one can doubt since Dr Royal S. S Copeland Commissioner of the Department of ot i 1 Health city of ot New York after taking her blood Pressure declared that she ought to live to be a decade more than Miss Peck had been planning for tor Her ller celebration however will not be at tho the tame Iame college as Brown Drown University refused her plea pIea for admission when she desired to walk in inthe inthe the Hie path her brothers trod Believing that behind this record of or a n long- long lived Jived healthful and very happy family might be ba found a 1 lc lesson son of or profit to us all I 1 asked Miss land stock so perhaps we inherited inherit what I could call enU a n strain of endurance We Ve had uncles great-uncles and aunts galore who lived into the nineties our Grandmother Peck to 88 She indeed was a ason wonder won son der who at 70 did the work for a n family of or 12 an and once I am told lit lifted a n barrel of cider from the ground into a wagon Our parents however were by no no means robust both delicate in youth my father always remaining so And the poor children alas I have often heard my mother say that every nurse she had declared that that baby would never live to grow up Yet here we all are not so very old true the boys aged respectively now 77 75 and 72 The true secret o of the matter is that we wo had hadAn hadan hadan an extremely sensible intelligent mother who t Brought raught us up in the way we should go and when we we were old we did not depart widely from our early carly training An occasional remark of my ray mothers mother's which may displease a few was that we wo should never have survived had she not when the tho second an extremely delicate child was 3 years year old changed from allopathic to homeopathic treat treat- ment Therefore no strong drugs no cathartics quinine calomel or such like remedies and no patent latent medicines were administered t to us I well remember havin having every few months attacks of grammar school then at 8 o'clock till we vc entered entered en en- the high school at 13 For two years ears moie more moie 9 was the hour then occasionally later Plenty of sleep for growing children is surely the first requisite I pity the little ones I see sec in the street at 10 or 11 o'clock and wonder at nt the tho selfish negligence of their parents as also at those I see carrying their offspring in m the subway and crowded crowd crowd- cd ed trolley cars even at later hours Fed on Wholesome Food Next in importance is food It was before belore the days s 's of balanced rations were unheard of cereals had not become the mode yet in view of our beginning we thrived fairly well Milk was our drink night and morning two large tumblers full double the size of thosa for which you may now pay 10 cents We had a cow which h my father or brothers milked and though skimmed for cream sauce or sometimes butter the milk was was richer than most of tho the mill mille you will find today Meat once a day was tho rule with fresh vegetables of the season at nt our 1 o'clock dinner A little over left-over might be used at breakfast such as hash or creamed codfish Our favorite breakfast food was delicious sweet corn fresh from our own garden two or orew J ew V I deemed unwholesome Light suppers were her fad a generous slice or two of excellent bread a cooke cookey or a piece of plain cake a little sauce or fresh fruit ruit and milk Pies were an occasional luxury thick of fr fruit it nn and thin of crust puddings of various kinds being considered more wholesome A single piece picco of pie was allowed yet jet et these were cro of good size While Horace Hor Fletcher was unheard of we were taught to chew our food thoroughly and cat slowly When we hn had ails absolute diet was the rule Nothing whatever to eat cat while s serious ri us s symptoms prevailed then perhaps gruel of which I declined to partake preferably going for a week without anything at all By generally nipping ailments in the bud we had few if any severe illnesses Two of us have escaped whooping cough to this day dare none ever ha had typhoid fever pneumonia or diphtheria diphtheria diphtheria theria one only scarlet fever none malaria at least never a chill At the same time we would never at any time timo have been called eaBe rugged much less so than most of our friends now a long timo time in their gravesOn gravesOn graves raves On two matters my may mother was of the strictest strict est cst strongly opposed to the use of tobacco and to drinking She preached and trained with such A j l I t I v J AI I t 4 t I a ft f t i. i t 1 1 f j I iI r I 0 r o It p 4 r 1 11 P t j il J. J-J. J I i iI 0 J j cc t t i So- So 0 AIJI S' S t ir- ir I o r St i t. t t. t Q 4 4 j i.- i. t I J. J t. t j pro f- f W. W 2 p. p f I. I I z J. oL it I H J J s Jl C i tKo O Ir I. I I l r r v i. i r 11 o J t fr 1 t bi t ft I Vi r f f J J A Annie S. S Peck l u 1 J. J the C Champion ham p Ion Mountain l Climber Her Latest Photograph effect that not one of or the boys ever drank wino wine or Of beer or smoked a cigar or cigarette Other stimulants stimulants stimulants tea and coffee were also taboo to us children children children chil chil- dren though used by our parents and md up to now two have hae never drunk them habitually the other two taking up morning coffee after alter arriving at years of discretion that is 50 60 or more We were not stuffed with sweets like lice the tho children of to today ay an infrequent penny for a stick of candy was vas a gift gUt of value ice cream cream was a 8 rarer treat soda water undreamed of ot For exercise we played ball ban and marbles marble in iD inthe inthe the yard climbed trees slid down hill in the winter winter winter win win- ter the boys worked in tho the garden but they had no regular athletics and d aside from walking a great deal they took no habitual exercise One notable circumstance is that of the four children three including mys myself lf have been al always always always al- al ways under weight This fussing about children being a little below average weight seems to mo me ridiculous A lean horse for a 1 long race Doubtless Doubtless Doubt Doubt- less some of us at times have hae been too thin to be beas beas beas as vigorous as desirable I remember that my ray father who lived to be 74 once weighed pounds about his average though 5 feet 10 h Inches tall tallA when in his twenties A brother 5 feet 9 0 inches weighed from to pounds only once in his hia life arriving at Good hearts a and lungs we were doubtless s endowed with and we have never abused them though giving them plenty of the exercise which they need Not Rich but Quite Happy One of the brothers has been ocen a 1 practising physician one a teacher the the other chiefly engaged in business but some years years years' in iii farming Of or the tho first st two one has led a very regular and one an irregular life Each of the three is confident that he could not have survived had b he lie lived like either cither of the others Nevertheless some things they thoy have had in commonAs commonAs commonAs common As Asa a 8 a rule nIle they have ha avoided overeating and habitual indulgence in very rich food they have not made a practice of keeping keening late hours nor engaged in any form of or dj dissipation All AU are arc church members and respected citizens All AU of us have no doubt spent more hours In tn work and fewer ewer in recreation than the majority w we have been interested in our work and done dono it able abIe as well as we wo were Hence although not not nott t so gay or so w rich rieb as many we have probably worried less Jess and had more satisfaction tion and enjoyed more happiness than the tho giddy discont discontented and envious a healthy mind contributing to a healthy body Certainly I would not claim that we were brought up in the best manner possible More exercise regularly taken in youth and mature life would have havo been an advantage but however agreeable agreeable agreeable agree agree- able it may be to spend two hours or more a day in the open air it is not absolutely necessary Also I 1 maintain that it is f far l' l better for tor health and more essential to good citizenship to y ya a worth-while worth book at home to read and to think than to spend almost every evening i in iii 1 e extravagant pleasure pleasure seeking So those of us who have havo wondered at times timea whether modern living conditions promote happi ness in the family life J may may be inclined to think that grandmothers grandmother's desire for a return of the tho good tood old da days s may not be without its merits merita after all ull |