Show I 1 1 ATTAIN AGE OF patriarchs residents of belgian village R aund Round out century of life as amat affat ter of course i I 1 N that wh which fell ponce tie ile leon ixon vainly sought seems to exist at in hainaut Hal four miles from mons in ili the midst of the coal ind and metallurgic region of belgium it la Is a village of I 1 Inhabit ts where almost everybody reaches the age of the patriarchs 1 they have just been celebrating one after another two diamond we weddings euln gs sixty sometimes seventy five years of married life live five golden weddings fifty years of married life and the one hundred and first anniversary of a man francois colin but even L s centenarian does not constitute a phenomenon pit e in this athla privileged community for there was born in the last year of the century a woman who saw law the end of 0 the nineteenth cc century and died at the end of tile the first lut ruai of the twentieth ceil century tury it Is noteworthy that the mathuse Met huse lalis of Hor horchler chles are all former work riemen and wai kingwo ruen who knew neither the belIe benefits fits of the eight hour day nor those of the antiliquor anti antl liquor in laws wa will I 1 for chles under the new regime of the least effort and of the uttermost abstinence remain the paradise of long altel in iii some fifteen 0 or twenty austrums Ju strums we shall know it if they are right elchan 1 I |