Show Romping L Links inks at one Eighty JOHN J T OliN OHN D. D ROCKEFELLER said to be the richest man lIlan in the world celebrated his first eighty-first anniversary I the hc other day by playing a a. strenuous game gamo of golf The rhe veteran oil king is au an anomaly in that men of his wealth usually accustom themselves to living in ease enso and luxury and thus kill themselves off l I long ng before they encompass encompass encompass en en- en- en compass four years and one He is an anomaly it ir I- I that his Lis riches have ha not destroyed him and that by prudent habits he continues to roll up wealth and aud io to o enjoy robust health It so very long ago that Rockefeller was as b be- be lie lied d to bo be rapidly declining in health and tho newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers contained accounts of or his greatly greaty impaired digestion digestion di- di jestion of his Ilis l lunching ching on crackers and milk and he was the object of sympathetic comment Now the comment comment com corn ment is confined to marvelling how he could have havo vo regained regained regained re re- re- re gained and retained his health and vig vigor r. r The answer is not difficult perhaps to those acquainted acquainted acquainted ac ac- ac- ac with the multimillionaires multimillionaire's later life It Ii is probable his present fitness is duo due to care in nursing his vitality and conserving his hit health in much tho the same sam manner that ho has his millions minions Unlike the thc average of his bis class he be possibly foresaw that prudence and e conservatism conservatism con con- n- n were as potent agencies for promoting long life as they had bc bean n for promoting a long purse and he be applied the theory to practice Although men men may ma may differ as to the worthiness of the example which Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller feHer has bas set to the world in many lUany of the methods method employed employed em em- in the acquisition of his fabulous w wealth there will be hc no difference of opinion in respect to the bright and shining e example ample he has set in the conservation of ot his Ilis physical be being ng which from t the e beginning was ne never cr especially strong At least leist he is an example for other rich men to emulate |