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For some months past I have never opened my weekly newspaper without finding an account of somebody who has reached the age of a hundred years, and, curiously enough, most of these dear old souts have -been-women.
Whether shall live to be a hundred "iny- self, and have my portrait in the papers, I can't say, but if anything I can tell you here will helji you to reach a hundred, or even if it only helps you to get a greater share of happiness in your life, 1 shall be very well pleased,
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18mm, 1912.
Mr. John B. Wharton, a New Jersey judge, who looks like President-Taft, a written to the President informing him it he had been "besieged by a company of beatiful girls and roundly kissed" because they thought he was Bir. Taft.
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I have lived in many pliers, and my long experience of life tells me that most of the troubles which rob women of health and happiness, and shorten their lives, are due to negleet! I don't want to frighten you, but I could tell you tales that would make your bloc run cold, of the terrible miseries suffered because girls were in a poor state of health when they crossed the borderline between girlhood and womanhood, because women had neglected their health ere baby came, neglected it just about the change. I him to do it," ful season of life.
It is from actual experience of these different dasses of wonten that I know firstly, that long life depends upur regular houth; and good, regular heats upon the well-being. of the orgins of digestion. The *principal organs, of course, are the stomach, Bver, and bowels, and they are so allied in the work they do, that if one of them gets out of order the others usually follow suit, Of course, the storich gets our of order very easily, especially if we don't take our meals regularly or eat what doesn't agree
with us.
But when you remember-That-if-the -digestive organs are out of order we ena have pains after eating, wind in the stomach, headache, blicusness, constipation, nervous ness, ahæmia, and the terrible troubles that
CHANCELLOR NOT TO FLAME Judge Farry, of Letter County Court in a speech at a dinner at the Awbers Club in London, told an anecdota Lady who wan very indignant about the Insurance Bill. sald: Mr. Lloyd George is in no way to blame. How condo kuce anything about. the subject? (Laughter.) What. I canuot understand is why Mrs. Liogd George allowed
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