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Show SOMEWHAT HARD TO FOLLOW Sturdy Veteran's Recipe for Long Life All Right, but for Certain Strong Considerations. George McBean, a Jamaica negro, seventyfave years old. a sailor for 61 years and still an active and able seaman, sea-man, veteran of a thousand storms and a score of shipwrecks, has been telling the Philadelphia Public Ledger how to avoid illness and attain old age without with-out losing an ounce of the strength of youth. Here is George's recipe: "Eat as much as you like, whenever you desire. "Eat whatever you like. "Sleep whenever you feel sleepy. No particular hours are necessary. "Just live like you want to." There is no doubt that George has the right idea. Youth at least uutil implacable age has broken it of its desire believes in eating as much as it likes, whenever it likes, and in sleeping when it feels sleepy. But by the time one is more or less able to "just live like he warts to" a lifetime of training in the opposite direction holds up inhibitory hands and robs his liberty of its savor. George is an example but he perhaps per-haps owes more than he realizes to the belaying pin and the rope's end, both of which aids to good habits were in their prime when his habits were forming. Knickerbocker Press. |