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Show IIoiu To Live To Be a Hundred lltijsh iMcKuen, who re.'u.-hort the ago of 105 in the little Washington city of Colfax the other day, and then died, attributed at-tributed his t?reat ae;o to the fact that he had a strong con-: stil.uLion to start with and thereafer "did most everything one shouldn't do." It is customary, always, for old people to be asked how t hey tfot thut way. All of us wish to live as long as possible, even those who tulieve an eternal life full of happiness and devoid of worries awaits on the other side. Longevity is mainly a matter of heredity, it seems. It runs in some families. It is also a matter of climate, we who live in moderate climates being longer-lived than those who spend their days in very hot or very cold countries. If you'd like a guess, it is ours that worry shortens more lives than any other cause. Work never kills; most of us don't work to a tenth of our capacity. If we worked harder and worried less, we'd live longer. Work and worry can't exist, together, under an old rule of physics that two things can't occupy the same space at the same time. Thai., we think, was the secret of Mr. McKuen's long life. He didn't worry about himself and simply ignored the willy rules made up by the worryers for I he conduct of life. |