WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY?

"In the doming time,'* : aid a famous English floet. <i a inati or woman- eighty or one hundred years old will be more beautiful than the youth 6r maiden of twenty, as tha ripe fruit ia more beautiful and fragrant than the green, These ripe men and women will have no wrinkles on the brow, no grey hair, no bent and feeble bodies; On the contrary, they will hay« perfect hearing,, ctaar eyesight, sound teeth, elastic step, and mental vigour." Does this sound absurd and impossible ? Why should it ? People one hundred years old are frequently met with in these days, as they have been as far ai human records go back. A man is of no real value until be is past fifty and gained control of bis passions and acquired some practical wisdom. After that he ou.'ht to have from fifty to seventy-live working yeats before him. Whoso dies short of one hundred (bar violence) dies of his own folly or that of his ancestors. One chief thing, however, wo must learn. "What is it ? Take an illustration— ouch, as we see multitudes of on every side. Mr Richard Legatfce of New Bolingbroke, near Boston, Lincolnshire, is a man now somewhat over seventy. He is * farmer, well known and highly respected in his district. In the spring of 1891 he had an attack of influenza from which he never f ally recuperated. The severe symp toms passed away, of course, but he remained weak. No doubt food would have built him up, provided he could have eaten and digestsd it. Yet here was the trouble, his appetite was poor, and what little lie took, as a matter of necessity rather than of reli3h, seemed tb act wrong with him. Instead of giving him strength it actually produced pain and distress in the sides, chest, and stomach. Then again— which is common experience— he would feel a craving for something to eat ; vet on sitting down to a meal, in the hope to enjoy ifc, the stomach would suddenly rebel against the proceeding, and he would turn from the table without having swallowed a mouthful. Nothing could come of this but increasing weakness, and it wasa'fc long before it was all he could do to summon strength to walk about. 