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Show ENTIRELY A STATE OF MIND So Just Feel Sure You Have the Secret Se-cret of Longevity and the Years Are Yours. Centenarians all know why they have been blessed with long years. It is because they never drank, or because be-cause they did drink; because they never smoked, swore, quarreled, worried, wor-ried, sat up late of nights, or because they did all these things, yet counteracted counter-acted the evil effects with diets of milk, mush, cornbread or an apple a day. Neighbors and relatives and doe-tors doe-tors may wonder why the tooth of time has proved incapable. But the subjects of their wonder have never any, doubts. They know exactly why they and death keep apart. An intimate study of the character of centenarians might reveal the true formula for long life. These tenacious old folk all have one thing in common, com-mon, and that is perfect confidence. They are never troubled with misgivings, misgiv-ings, never afflicted with self-questioning. If a person is absolutely certain cer-tain that he is going to defeat time, perhaps that is as effectual as It is with the man who is absolutely certain cer-tain that he is going to defeat a case of typhoid. Confidence' may be a good anodyne for sleeplessness, a worthy aid to digestion, a protector against accident. The records indicate that It does not matter so greatly that the candidate can-didate for a hundred be abstemious or moderately Indulgent, careful with his food or reckless, as that he feel sure that he has the secret of longevity. lon-gevity. So. it would seem, the first duty of aspirants is to cultivate a dogmatic set of opinions. Toledo Blade. |