| Show MARK TWAIN AT 0 SEVEN SEVENTY IHS OF AUTHORS AT 1 l NJ uh 7 at three score and ten lie he Is hate and hearty gives views ton on llo how to live Ll never smokes or drinks drink while asleep mark twain that prince of humor isis lina has reached edh aird the of life us its laid down by tho the scriptures ahr C 0 score years nud and ten and yet he t H stul SIM able to give us go gems in 8 of hu humor in 0 r and wit such buell goals corns na as at attained femi edw tor for him years ago when plan tom sawyer and innocents innocenti t MARK TWAIN TODAY TO DAY abroad were first riven given to us on december fth he wits was tile the guest of honor at it a dinner lu in now new york to celebrate lilg 1119 seventieth birthday tho guests giosta were confined closely to writers of imaginative literature and about authors were present nearly unit hait of them women every guest received as a souvenir a bust of t mark alark twain half life size naturally mr Cl clemelia emetia was the principal spi speaker aker ho he took as ills his text how to get to bo be seve seventy nty and not mind it ile he said the seventieth birthday it Is the time of life when you arrivo at a now and awful dignity when you may throw astae the decent reserves which havo oppressed you for a generation lion anti and stand unafraid and unabashed your seven terraced summit and look down and teach you cau tell the world how cougot you got there it is abat they all do you scalf never ge get f tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up tip to 6 that great place you yoi will ex plain the process and dwell or on the particulars tic ulars with senile rapture I 1 nave IQ acca anxious to explain my own ays eys i tern tem for a lony timea time androw and now at last I 1 hivo havo the right secularly irregular ular 1 I have achieved eved my seventy years in fit the usual wai way by sticking strictly to a seli scheme cine of my life which would kill anybody else it sounds bounds like an exaggeration but that Is really the com inan rule for attaining to old age we have no permanent habith until we are forty then they begin to hardon harden presently they petrify then business begins st since nee forty I 1 have been regular about going to bed and retting getting up and that Is one of tile the main things I 1 have made it a rule to go to bed when there anybody left to sit up tip with and I 1 have m made ado it a rule to got get up tip when I 1 had to this has resulted in an unswerving regularity ot of irregularity in the matter of diet which Is another main thing I 1 have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which agree with roe me until one or the other of ua its got the best beit of it I 1 t until lately I 1 got the best bert of it myself but last spring I 1 stopped frolicking with mince pie after midnight up t to 0 then I 1 had bad always believed it gasn wasn loaded for thirty years I 1 have taken coffee and broad bread at 8 in the morning and no bite nor sup until in the evening 1 11 I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time 1 I have no other restriction as aa regards smoking I 1 do not know just when I 1 begin to smoke I 1 only know that it was in my fathers lifetime anti and that I 1 was indiscreet lie ile passed from this life early in 1917 when I 1 was a shade past eleven ever eter since then I 1 have smoked publicly As an example to others and not that I 1 care for moderation myself it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake I 1 As for drinking I 1 havo have no rule nile about that when the others drini drin 11 like to help otherwise I 1 remain dry dray by halit habit tind preference tills this dry ne acis 49 does 1004 not hurt nip me but it could easily hurt you yon because you are different you let it alone first standard oil trust I 1 since I 1 was seven years old I 1 have seldom taken a dose of medicine and have still wore more seldom needed one rut but up tip to seven I 1 lived exal excl exclusively I 1 on a allopathic medicines not tl that I 1 at I 1 ed cd th oni for I 1 don dont it think I 1 did but it if w was as for economy my father took a drug stor for a do debt 1 t and it made codi liver oil cheaper than the other break 1 fast foods I 1 war waa tile first standard oil trust I 1 bad atall by tile tho time tamel the drug store was waa exhausted my health was established anti and there has haa never been much the matter with me rince 1 I have never taken any exercise ex r capt sleeping and resting and I 1 never it intend to take any exercise Is 13 loathsome and it suat inot be tiny any you tire are I 1 was always urca 1 s 1 I 1 it have aved 11 veil a severely moral lift life aut it aull be a mistake for other people to try that tant or for tits 1110 to recommend lt it very few would succeed YOU have leave to have n perfectly colossal fetock of lu onila nud and you cannot get bieni on oil a margin you have to bave tua till tiling na and put them in ill your pox ipox morals uns tire nn all like irusle like a foreign language like clity ity poker pa paralysis no in man all Is born 4 with them I 1 myself I 1 start d poor i |
