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Show HOW TO LIVE A CENTURY. Long Life a Matter of Moderation and Temperament Hardly a day passes without tho announcement an-nouncement of the death or birthday of a man or woman who has reached the ripe old age of 100 years, says tho Kansas City World. How do they do lt7 It Is a fair question. Most of us grow and grumble at the things that happen to us In this llfo, but are mighty careful to hang on to it as long as possible Everybody would like to know how to live a century. There is no royal road to tho century post. A good constitution comes first and, knowledge of one's own self is next. Most persons are as well acquainted ac-quainted with, Sanscrit as they are with the structure of their own bodies. They Insult their intricate and delicate deli-cate organisms through Ignorance rather than design. If they knew more about the actual effect of such abuses and how they lop years off human lives there Isn't a doubt that thero would bo more Bane living. Most of our centenarians cen-tenarians havo lived simply. Fow of them have made a study of living. Most of them were poor and outside of tho pale of high living temptations. Allco O'Connor of Jersey City celebrated cele-brated her 103d birthday lost week. She has children aged 77, 75 and 63. She says she never had a pain nor an acho that she can remember. Mrs. Linus Ackerman of Brooklyn, N. J., has whooping cough at 97. Refugio Pontolongon died In Mexico City, aged 123. Ho lived ln the samo house for 113 years. "Uncle" Coon Withers of Liberty, Mo., still uses his dally allowance of tobacco at the ago of 100. Tho list could bo continued Indefinitely, and the samo story Is found In almost every case. Comparatively Compara-tively poverty; a vocation that contained con-tained a living and little worry; temperament tem-perament of tho sunny kind; a disposition disposi-tion that took the world as it came and a mighty good constitution to start with. |