The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
Nine. Davenport, Young at 88,
Gives Secret of Her Beauty
Her Eldest Son Seventy and Husband Forty
eight, Remarkable Woman Tells HON. to
Be Youthful and Fair to the Eve

To be young at eighty-eight. to he
alive with interest in the newest prob
lens of a later generation, and, what is
more. to work with enthusiasm for their
solution with all the capacity for effort
and confidence of youth. is the rare lot
of Nine. Charlotte de Goliere Daven-
port lecturer. writer, and student, who
is now visiting Washington.
At the Bellevue yesterday. Nine. Dav-
export told the interviewer many things.
She talked about the suffrage movement.
problems that our Democracy must solve
for the alienation of human suffering.
and last about beauty and the secret of
eternal youth.
She was convincing as she spoke about
youth. for this wonderful woman of
eighty EIGHT. straight vivacious, and
without single telltale wrinkle. could
subtract thirty years from her age and
find ready credence. Her step is
bouyant, her EYES flash and sparkle with
the fire of youth, and her talk is ami
mated with quick and forceful gestures,
while scorn, enthusiasm. approval. show
upon her mobile face. attesting the posi-
tive interest which she takes in things.
Oldest Son Seventy.
It gives one a strange sensation to
hear this gifted, youthful appearing
woman say that she Is the mother Of
eleven children. and that her eldest son
is seventy. But, then. one is apt to be
often astonished in the course of talk
with her. Nine. Davenport is no re-
spector of persons nor of institutions.
She says what she thinks and she says
It with the conviction of one who knows.
Nine Davenport has lectured in many
countries and in many tongues. Her
special science is hygiene. When one
fidgets and darkly hints to her that the
secret of youth and beauty is of para
mount interest-as Nine. Davenport's 8
visitors often do-she talks to them about
this youngest offspring Of the sciences.
A thorough knowledge of hygiene and
Of the Individual self is the elusive secret
of the Fountain of Youth for which the
adventurous Of all ages have sought, is
Nine. Davenports cryptic answer.
Husband Is Forty-eight.
Is it possible for all Of US to be in the
full flush Of youth and power beyond the
age Of eighty? Nine. Davenport says
yes" Is there any special preparation
that We can eat, any special waters in
which We can battle and so remain
young? Nine. Davenport says no."
This world authority on hygiene has
taught crowned heads her secret in seven
languages and in many lands. She has
instructed the Czarina OF Russia, the
Empress of Germany, the Queen of italy
in the elements OF her science, and-far
more wonderful-she has lived her
science, and now at IS, the proud mother
of eleven sons and happy wife of a hus-
band forty years younger than herself
she still welcomes new problems to
grapple with. and 10 still imparting her
knowledge to others
Leaning lightly forward on her elbow.
Mime. Davenport talked on beauty. for
beauty Is part of her subject. She said
some hard things about beauty nostrums
and beauty doctoring, but many a heart
burn and disappointment would be saved
were they generally known.
American women she said scorn-
fully. want to be beautiful without any
trouble to themselves. They think that
they can buy some secret to rub on
their cheeks. and the perfect complex
ion and fresh bloom Of youth viii b.