quote: an old doctor once told arthur h. simms that if he learned only what was good and kept adding to it, he would live long and sleep well at night. simms heeded the advice given him in 1878, and the wisdom kept him well. he will be 93 next january, and he sleeps well at night. the tribune did not identify who the old doctor was who handed simms the keys to a good night's sleep and a long life in 1878. perhaps he was a college professor. we know a thing or two about putting people to sleep. but i did not come here tonight to talk to you about sleep or, hopefully, to put you to sleep. i actually came here to tell you about something else far more interesting, i believe, that happened in simms' life in the year 1878. an event that i think was even more crucial in explaining his long career in the law than the advice he got from a doctor that same year. for 1878 was also the year when simms' mother, a formerly enslaved woman named henrietta wood, won the largest known sum ever awarded by a u.s. court in restitution for slave