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Show tMHim hue ur rtti niAriurid lesldente of Belgian Village Round Out Century of Life as a Matter Mat-ter of Course. That which Ponco de Leon vnlnly ought seems to exist nt Horchles, in Inlncut, four miles from Mons, in tho aldst of tho coal and metnllurglc re-Ion re-Ion of Belgium. It is a village of ,000 Inhabitants, whero almost every-ody every-ody reaches the age of the patriarchs. They have Just boon celebrating, ono fter another, two diamond weddings sixty, sometimes Beventy-flvc, yenrs if married life) ; five golden weddings fifty years of mnrrled llfo), nnd tho no hundred and first annlvcrsnry of man, Francois Colin. But even this entenarlan does not constitute a phe-lomenon phe-lomenon In this privileged community, or there was born, In tho last year of ho Eighteenth century, a woman who aw the end of tho Nineteenth century nd died only at tho end of the first U8trum of tho Twentieth century. It is noteworthy that the Mcthuse-ihs Mcthuse-ihs of Horchles are all former work-DtfnWmd work-DtfnWmd worklngwomen, who knew idthcr tho benefits of tho eight-hour ay nor those of. tho nnti-llquor laws. Vlll Horchles, under tho new regime f tho least effort nnd of tho utter-lost utter-lost abstinence, rcmnln tho pnrndlse f long llfo? In some fifteen or twenty ustrums vvn shall know If they are IghL Exchnnge. |