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Show 1, i j WINE HELD SECRET OF HIS LONG LIFE NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Proper food Including wine, la the secret of longevity, according to Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of the Now York state and national board of health and one of the east's best known physicians, physic-ians, who Sunday celebrated his ninety-ninth blrthdu. Wine, in particular, particu-lar, he said was responsible for his excellent health today, declaring that it corrected digestive troubles of his jouth. "It was during a visit o Paria," he I explained, "thut I learned to drink! wine, with the result that 1 have been I well ever since. At a banquet I sat next to a famous French physician' whom i told about my unfortunate handicap He advised me to drink' wine between courses saying it would' digest the food I had eton. I fol-1 lowed his advice and did not oxper-' ience any further discomfort." oo |