Show ATTAIN AGE OF OF- PATRIARCHS Residents of ef Belgian Village R und Out Century of ef Life as a Matter Mat Mat- ter tr of Course That which Ponce de Leon vainly sought seems to exist At st In la Hainaut four tour miles mUes from tram Mona Mons In lu th the midst of or the coal conI and metallurgic region region region re re- re- re gion of ot Belgium It II Is a village of ef inhabitants where almost everybody every eve body reaches the time age of the patriarch patriarchs They have Just been celebrating one after alter another two diamond weddings sixty sometimes seventy five Jeanot years year of ot married life Ufe five golden wed weddings fifty years of ot married life lite and the theone theone theone one hundred and first anniversary of ot ofa ota a man Francois Francais Colin Cohn But even this centenarian does doe not constitute a 8 phenomenon phe ph In this p privileged community for tor there timers vas was born barn In the thelast last year of the Eighteenth century a wom woman n who wha saw nw the end of ot the Nineteenth century and died only at the end of ot the first fir m of the Twentieth It Is noteworthy that the labs lahs of at are ara all former farmer workingmen work work- ingmen n and anti workingwomen who knew V neither the benefits of at the hour eight da day nor those thase of the liquor anti la laws haw Will under the new Hew regime of th the least effort and of ot the uttermost uttermost uttermost utter utter- most abstinence remain the paradise of ot long life Ute In some lame fifteen or twenty lu we e shall shan know If It they ar are right Exchange |