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HOW TO LIVE LONG.

THE HABITS OF BRITISH

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Contributing to a symposium in the Betning Standard on "How to live long," the Rt. Hon. T. P. O'Connor, Father of the House of Commons

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to see him often taking his stroll, gene rally with "Jack" Sanaderz, da he was ralled by his friends, his equally loved and hated private secretary. You could see the atrain on the Chief Secretary in the increasing stoop of his shoulders and the heavy lines in his face, but he walked all right, all the same.

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Sir William Harcourt was just the fe- I lay down, then, as the very 'first

versc. I have heard of his staying for counsel of wisdom for men who have todays in a country house and never leav do hard brain work, that when they take exercise they should take it moderately it will be remembered, was told of Gile its reposeful chairs. The anime story, and that they should not try to squeeze bon, the historian. Mr. Lloyd George is, it all into a few hours. It is true that

again, an example of the opposite habit:

'

**MY PRISON CELL."

plenty of examples can be quoted against me to the contrary. The two classic he rarely lets a day pass without a waik, examples of the difference between two however great he the demand on his time. great brain workers, one who took plenty. and the other who took no exercise, are

I am asked to say something about my Gladstone and Chamberlain. The one

own habits. Alas, am a conscious Eved in almost perfect health till he was example of the demoralisation of Parlia eighty-nine the last two years were mentary life, coupled with the greater darkened by cancer, but canceriga ex- demoralisation of the life of a journalist. reptional thing which, so far as wḥ yet I ought to be one of the best walkers in have discovered, obeys no law that we the House of Commons; I am one of the can trace. But up to that period `Glad: worst I have a plain but picasant study stone enjoyed almost perfect health. I in a modest dat; I spend so much of my remember still reading with amazement time there that I speak of it as my prison of a walk he took with a friend in Nor- cell-a pleasant cell locking out on the way of 33 miles after he was seventy years Westminster Cathedral, and the islet of of age.

silence and retient which gathers around it; but a cell all the same. This is the history which has led up to this deplor shie ending of days, often without even crossing the threshold of my front door.

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the same, nay," he was not prevented from Auburn. Lodge-the Lest house in the STRUGGLE IN A BERLIN HOTEL.. arranged, with the Initials sa well as the Bar-

["doing" so by min. For in that case be took a hansom to Eis house, put on water proofs and went gaily forth on his walk under the pelting rain.

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I used to see proofs of this inflexible adhesion to his theory of the daily walk during the years when I was a colleague of the great man in the Bouse of Commons. There was an arrangement then-there is, I believe, now-that in the preparation cf. the questions to Ministers every day, the questiois to the Prime Minister are postponed till about a third or half-way through the questions on the Order Paper. The first question to the Prime Minister is nearly always at No. 45. This rule, of course, gives to the Prime Minister a quarter of an hour, or perhaps more, before his attendance in the House is necessary. Gladstone never entered till a few seconds before his first question. I can still see the somewhat extraordinary appearance he presented when he did make this appearance; the hair scattered, the eyes almost wild, the broad chest panting, the breath config quick-with all the appearance, in fact, of a man who was just finishing up a ror long and quick race.

Take the very different case of Mr. Chamberlain. He was always in his place at the right moment; he rehehed it cool, collected, without any sign of haste. He himself told the world what were his habits. He never, he said, play ed golf; he never bicycled; he never, in short, put foot to ground except in walk ing from his hansom cab to his seat at home or in the House.

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Voteens," as they are called in Ireland (meaning exceptionally pious men, the men who helped the priest, who tock, the collections-amateur and unpaid beadles and vergers); and many of their quaint sayings-representing the old Irish point: of view, which they embodied-I still re- member. The delicious moment still re- mains with me when, as they passed

town, and one of the many birthplaces of Oliver Goldsmith-they discussed the new arrival; and in incredible tales each man told of his incredible wealth, his ten horses, his four carriages, his fourteen servants until one old gentleman-he waa the chapel collector-turned to my father with the astounding statement that this distinguished foreigner had chops and steaks for his breakfast! There was an awkward pause, broken by my father with Beacoasted, and the Marquis of Sais-together with the Texts of all the most import the comment,Ah, they meaning, of bury stayed during the Berlin Con. course, Englishmen and Protestants-ference, has been the scene of an adven- have their heaven in this world." ture quite up to the level of the climax When I went as a young reporter to Dublin I walked many miles every day. It is true that Dublin cars were innumer- able, and their fares were the cheapest in the world-sixpence up to any reason able distance-but neither I nor any of my comrades ever thought of taking a car--unless he could include" it in his expenses allowed by his office.

Ab, how little I knew the glories of that austere life. I soon appreciated it, perhaps, when I got my frat job in Lon- don, which was in the offices of the Daily Telegraph as a. sub-editor and during the exciting time of the Franco- German war. My hours were from six in the evening until four-sometimes till when I got home to my garret in a court six-in the morning. I was too tired off the Strand to take or even to want any exercise, and I rested and often moped till it was time to return to my sub-editor's room. Later on, when I got day work, and when often I got no work, I resumed my habits of a long daily walk, and so I remained, in spite of a good height, a very slight man. Parnell once said to me, when I got into the House of Commons, that he thought me the fearest man for my height in London except himself.

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he heard a terrified shricktrom his wife. Hastily reopening the door, he found a man, well dressed but aboelesa and wearing grey silk gloves and with a partially masked face, standing in the middle of the room, covering his wife with revolver. Before the intruder could change his aim Hollinger, who is a man of powerful physique, rushed at him and grappled with him. A life-and- death struggle fallowed. The "intruder tried desperately to turn the barrel of the revolver on the Swiss, but, failing

Swatow to do so, struck him a nasty blow on the head with it Hollinger, however, was not put out of action, and, forcing the intruder backwards, ever. nearer and nearer to the window, finally picked him up bodily and flung him out into the street.

As it happened, the man made his exit through the same aperture as bus entrance, for, when he was picked up beding profusely from the head and with a broken thigh, he was recognised as the most skilful and daring of the German facade-scalers, as is type of thief is called bere. His name is Will Kasszer. Many visitors to shirt hotels of Bertin and other big

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German towns who were incautious enough to leave their windows open dur ing absence from their rooms have suffered from the depredations of Kass- ser and his brother

Chamberlain, as I have mid, almost boasted that he never took any exercise. And then in a few weeks I had become He lived to seventy-seven, it is true; but the most frequent attendant and one of the last years in partial paralysis were the most frequent speakers in the House. death, not life. But one may question We were pursuing the Obstructionist whether this disastrous wind-up was due policy, and we had to speak every night simply to want of exercise. The late-five, six, ten times, a night. My habits King of Greece--who was on tão Glad at that time were to take funch at one stonian model, taking his two to three o'clock every working day in the House, hours' exercise every day of his life then to remain there till two, three, some- through the streets of Athens or Aix les times four o'clock in the morning. Once Bains or Paris-spoke to me with some we had a continuous sitting of forty-one thing like scorn of the habits of Cham hours, and might be going on still if Mr. berlain-indeed, English habits gene Speaker Brand had not by a coup d'état rally.

brought the debate to an enforted close.

In those days I got to bed usually at four o'clock in the morning: I never After a lunch which he gave me in an allowed myself to be called, and slept hotel in Paris I observed that he stood soundly till noon; I dressed and break up immediately after he had swallowed fasted (I take only tea and toast for

Some months ago, they were run to the last morsel of his very small meal: he breakfast); was seated again by the side earth by the police and after a sharp. did it deliberately, remarking how he of Parnell at our simple one o'clock lunch. revolver skirmish in which several per- Baffered at a dinner-party in London when I was a teetotaller at the time, and be some stout old downger insisted on sitting never drank anything but a pict of the and taken into custody. They were sen- sons were founded they were overcome on at the table. And then he told me cheapest and lightest German wine; and tenced to fifteen years hard labour, bu that he had remonstrated with Chamber- so again till four o'clock in the morning. on the way to gaol where he was to serre lain because of the black cigars which he They were glorious days in spite of every his term Willi nocomplished the feat smoked so frequently, and that Chamber thing; but the physical cult to me was which Charles Fence attempted without lain's reply was that he realised that that in two years my weight increased probably they would kill him, but that be from cleven to over fourteen stones.

success, and, taking advantage of a meant to go on.

heedless moment of his warders leapt It recalls a story of Now I am down in weight agam, which through the railway carriage "window. Bismarck, who was a terrible eater and brings me to this final remark; that you while the train was in motion and drinker, when he corrected an English can correct the want of exercise a good man who told him afet one of his Gur deal by care in diet. I eat little; I drink managed to make good his escape. gantuan feasts that be had said the meal less--sometimes I go for months" on the would not present much of a problem to The first-floor window of the Kaiserhof had not injured him. "I didn't day water wagon." My physical health re- the ordinary Cumbrian rock-climber, but that, said Bismarck; what I said was mains fairly good; I work as hard, if not it is somwhat of a mystery how Kasser that I wasn't sorry I had eaten auch a harder than ever. But I pay this managed to negotiate the front of the penalty: that my digestion is werk and A conspicuous example of the benefit uncertain; and that behind the cheerful-building unobserved. Though the Wil of regular exercise to-day among aur ness I hope I always show with my friends helmstrasse, which that side of the hotel. public men is Lord Balfour. I do not and the serenity of outlook at which I faces across the Wilhelmsplatz, is not a think there has been a single day of his have arrived, cre is always behind my main artery of traffic, it is anything hut life that ho has not taken bis fairly long back the dark spectre of brooding melan deserted, even late at gight, and, con salk. I remember that even in the choly-dodged, laughed, at, but always taining official residence of the Fre dreadful days..when he was Chief Secre there. But I suffer in illustrious.com-sident, the Chancellor, and the Foreign tary for Iceland when every hour was pany: Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, John Murister, is specially patrolled by the

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