The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-24
KEPT AN ACCOUNT or EVERY
THING SHE DID IN HER LIFE
MINUTE RECORD OF LIFE
Kept Track Of Every Time She Wash.
ed Her Hands, Face or Fect-ct
what She Ate and Of Every
Penny She Spent

is the keeping of a consecutive diary
that few OF the millions of people
who resolve each year to keep @
complete record OF their dUIusH from
day 70 day carry ont their purpose.
A. lt ls about this season that one is
likely tu let his new year resolutions
slide and blank pages begin to ap.
pear I'm his journal the remarkable
sto. which has just come TO light
Of the record kept by an old woman
in England should prove some stim
ulant to the careless diarist Widow
Rofcy Of Nowdigatc near p1ri.ins,
posses scs a detailed record of every
thing she has done since she learn.
ed to write in the ninciytwo years
she has lived So accurately has the
record been kept that the old woman
can tell To- a penny how much money
she has spent. how many times she
has eaten. how many times she has
washed her han..s and face and
bathcd her feet and various other
things that ordinary folk never keep
track Of For the historian OF a
thousand years hence. who will
doubtless regard our much yauptpd
civilization as barbarlc. ibc amazing
record will constitute a ycrituble bl-
nanza of statistical information
Widow Roncy has just passed her
ninety ysccond birthday On the ann.
vcrsary she was entertained at din.
ner by friend and there aunomc.
ed some of the totals Of her figures
to date. The cost Of maintenance
from birth 70 her nnctysccoud
birthday she figures to be- S9.5GS-un
average expenditure of about s. a
week.
Songs which were sung at her
birthday Admitting We VIII
Go" and My old Gray Marc"-shc
records as having sung LOG times
since her father taught them To her
when n little girl.
The inventory Of clothing which
she has worn would make an inter
osting comparison with a Ike record
from some woman Of the oNtrava
giant class. She has had only forty.
seven pctticonts during her life for
ty one dresses, eighty pairs of shoes
and pa pairs of Of stockings only
three new pairs wear or aprons
she wore nfty,.ro'; shawls and
wraps, thrtyfour; gloves and init
tens. thirty; corscts siNty-thrcn;
hair nets sivteca, and hair pins.
just 1000 Many Of these articles
were made by her own nimblc fng-
ers.
Mrs. RoNcy says she has eaten
t.7Sl fishes and but little meat
which would indicate that piscato-
rial diet Is conducive both 10 long.
cyity ana firm adhesion to good rcso-
muous Her daily bread amounted
10 1850 lolycs, and she has eaten
5o27O potatoes and 1886 cabhngcs.
In tea drinking. the widow did not
come mp To what Is probably the nor
NAL figure among the gentle sex.
hut she credits herself with hayiug
drunk l3i32O cups Of the beverage.
besides 6'l'O glasses OF milk and
only 3.'NO glasses of water
The now wrinhlod face she has
washed $1,000 times, her hands l2'.
~ ana her feet 2,2ON times. she
mas slept 3O2,22o hours Of her life
away drawn 33.5Ni buckets of water
from the well In her garden, cnt her
h"F'r nails 1856 times and her zoe
nails 200 times. Dressing. undross
Ing and arranging her simple toilet
accounted for tDl'o hour, ri her