Senator Chauncey M. Depew, entertained at a dinner on the occasion of
his seventy-sixth birthday, said:
Fifty-four years in public and semipublic life and upon the
platform all over this country and in Europe for all sorts of
objects in every department of human interest have given me
a larger acquaintance than almost anybody living. The sum of
observation and experience growing out of this opportunity is
that granted normal conditions, no hereditary troubles, and
barring accidents and plagues, the man who dies before seventy
commits suicide. Mourning the loss of friends has led me to
study the causes of their earlier departure. It could invariably
be traced to intemperance in the broadest sense of that word;
intemperance in eating, in drinking, in the gratification of
desires, in work, and in irregularity of hours, crowning it all
with unnecessary worry.--New York _Times_.
(1878)
=Longevity and Work=--See INDUSTRY AND LONGEVITY.