The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
"a VERY GOOD BOY" THEY SAY
OF AN INNATE OF THE OLD
FOLKS HOME.
No One Enters the Institution Until
He or She Is 80 Years Old. One
Woman Is 115, and Several
Past the Century Mark.

NOIndH Is AAO, dA1U several
Past the Century Mark.
NEW YORK.-"He was a ve-e-ery
good boy!"
Eulogies as terse as this seldom
are pronounced, certainly not over
boys" 81 years old. But Heinrich
Kogut, who had spent five years in
the Daughters of Jacobs Home, 3O7
East Broadway, and who died a few
DAYS ago, was one of the best "boys"
in the home.
If he hadn't been a parlytic he
might have been a little more mis-
chieyous and taken part in the
FRANKS and squabbles which the boys
at the home have with one another
and with the girls. The girls are
maids and matrons of so years, but
sometimes there are romantic cpl
sodes. Heinrich Kogut never started
anything; he let the girls stick to
their knitting and he stuck to his
pipe.
1t was a testimonial to his neutral
ity when men and women of many
ages (from so up, of course) got to-
gether in the little chapel to say
gOod-by to the non-combatant. Fun
erals are such commonplace occur
rences at the institution that it is
true mark of affection and esteem
when the services are attended by
more than a corporals guard:
An Imposing Sight.
1t is the custom for the oldest 10
men in the home to gather by the
coffin, light 10 tall wax candles and
pray for the dead. That is for
mality, but when the hundred-odd
persons who aren't confined to the
rooms or the hospital assemble in
the chapel for the services and then
follow the body for two blocks down
the street it is a seni-off, and that's
the way those in attendance wish
1t to be understood.
There are 100 in this household,
the baby of the family having cele-
brated her eightieth anniversary sew
eral months ago. Children under 80
aren't admitted, as their pranks get
on the oldest survivors nerves.
Then, too, there is a waiting list OF
100 candidates to choose from. Ten
or dozen of the elders drop OH
every year, and the waiting list fills
up at the bottom, murmuring; Your
loss is our gain"
No one at the home feels bad
about death, for it is the only event
that will provide any variety for
them. Not that they are eager for
1t, but it doesn't worry them.
Mrs. Rachel Marcus was hobbling
INTO the chapel Sunday afternoon.
she was hobbling rather actively for
a woman of 101 years. Superintend-
cnt Krieger has his little joke with
Rachel to the effect that she is out
Tor the championship in the home.
Naturally the attendants begin to see
these members of the human race as
entries in a Marathon event
Superintendent Has His Joke.
You're docking younger than
ever said Krieger to Rachel.
She shook her head mot so, not
SO, In four or five months II VIII
be me, she said, smiling, but hei
eyes twinkled, showing that there
was a warm cinder of vitality IN her
Nonsense" Krieger exclaimed,
you have four or five years ahead
Of you"
As she went in Kreiger said I'M
pFessiyely: THAT woman is young
er for her age than any girl unaeI
30 in the house" But he couldh
remember just how old she was 50
he Went inside and came out beam-
ing with pride. Il thought she was
only ninety" he said, but she was
lOl last week al
But Rachel is a poor bet III inns
long-distance event. Upstairs MIS-
Esther Davis sits by the fire count
ing over her years. She stops a.
L 10 now, but the last of this montn
she can say, truthfully, "A huhdIeI
and sixteen" and die in peace1uil
that her record VIII
stand at the home untouched lot d
long time Her nearest competiIol /
Is Mindal Diamond.
krieger says: "He is is 10Y, put !
ne isn't so very healthy man. 80
phia Kalmanson is 1872. Jeremiah
krimoulen, he is so strong ana F.
healthy he walks around all the time