East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-07-12
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DENVER, July 12 - A bas the
grandmother of the old fashioned type
who settled into a cap and woolen
shawl as soon as her hair began to
turn gray and who spent her time aft
er the age of 60, knitting and peer
ing over her spectacles out of the
windows
Nothing like that for Mrs. Bertha
NJ Rose. 6S. champion swimmer
turner. dancer and horseback rider
and one of the most prominent par
ticipants in the internatioal German
turnfest held here recently Despite
her years. Mrs. Roses nimblenes was
the envy of girls from 16 to 90 who
also took a part in the turnfest. Not
only has Mrs Rose proved that ad-
vancing years are no bar to athletic
prowess, but she did not begin to ac-
quire her skill in that direction until
she was close to so. She was over
45 when she learned to swim and
over SO when she first took up dane
ing She was so before she first be-
came interested in turner work.
"I never expect to grow old" said
Mrs. Rose today. Il suppose I ought
! by rights to be old now but I can't
consider myself so. I'm younger now
in spirit than I was when child.
! Hod do 1 keep young? That's an
| easy question to answer. 1t isn't so
much what you eat. what exercise
YOU take or the rules of living you
adopt that keeps you young. It's just
| the spirit of youth inside of you. All
my life I have had the spirit of youth
yelling up inside me and l think it
! will never let me grow old.
Sometimes I get ashamed of my
self and say: Now I'm going to quit
! this foolishness and settle down and
| STAY at home and be a good. sensible
old fashioned grandmother But
somehow 1 can't That spirit oi
youth and happiness and love of life
rises UP in me and I can't help going
out and having a good time.
when I was a child I was wha,
Won might call 'tomboy' I was al
WAYS out of doors tearing around
running races. playing games, climb
! ing trees. / was the terror of the
neighborhood I never had chance
to learn gymnastics or horseback rid
! ing or swimming. 1t was on the WIG
plains around Denver that I learned
to ride and I still love that sport.
az was As before l learned to
swim. I used to go to an old swim
ming pool here in Denver and water
my daughters enjoy themselves in the
water. Finally / couldn't stand it any
longer and 1 said: I'm going dowr
there and swim if it kills me- And
did Then I learned diving-all sorts
of fancy diving. In spite of my "a
wears 7 loved to double myself up ano
90 tumbling down the chutes In al
kinds of positions Everyone though
I'd break my neck. Then five or sN
wears later. when the turner socleties
were established in Denver Jolheo
4 and began to turn. | can 90 every.
thing the younger people do ano
some things they can't do" Mrs. Rose
has no sympathy for the old tashioh,
cd tvpe of woman who did nothing pu'
STAY at home and Knit
ST think it is shame for girls u
marry and settle down to Keeplns
house and raising children to the eA-
! clusion of everything else when tneS
! arc so Young. I am opposed TO slrls
marrying young. I think every glrl
ought to have a good time first, and
/ incidentally fit herself to become
mother I myself married at the age
of "a. and I wasn't very anxious 10
| get married then. I wanted to nave
/ a good time for several more years
but my husband wanted to get mar
ried right away. / think about ~ is
! the right age for a girl to marry