Mr, Li Ching-yun Speaks with Wisdom of Over Two Centuries "Keep a quist heart. Sit like tortoise. Walk sprightly like a pigeon, Sleep like a dog." Such are the true recipes for a long life. Mr, Li Ching-yon, who gives ther, speaks with some authority, for he has just spent his 250th birthday surrounded by a goodly sprinkling of his 188 descendants, cotments "The Times" editorially. Our contemporary, the "North-China Herald," whose representative has visited him, reports that he is young and vigorous in spirit and that "his facial appearance is no different from others who are two centuries his junior." It is well known thet it is a mistake to stay for too long at any one calling, and Mr. Li, after being a herb gatherer from his tenth his hundredth year, then started life afresh as a herb peddler, "walking sprightly like a pigeon." With fan absence of vanity which does not always accompany advanced he admits that many of his are older than himself. It is reported that Mr, Li shows an exact knowledge of Chinese events with which he has been contemporary—a rare achievement among members of the medical profession, who tend to entirely within their own subjects. If only we too had a Li born in the year of Titus Oates's plot, we can be sure the educational side of the B.B.C. would make him broadcast his version of memorable and noncontroversial events, such as the death of Queen Anne, so that history might become a living thing in the schools.
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