Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-28

is ono hundred years old, and this
interesting American centenarian
has recently taken a bride in LOS An.
geles, California.
Miss Mary Augusta Barney, the blush
Ing bride. gave her age on the marriage
record as at least s~eycntytwo. And then
she added:
II really do not know just how old I am
4 stopped thinking about my age so long
ago that I have forgotten the milestones
OF the years"
Whatever is the exact age Of the new
Mrs. Morrison, she is certainly no silly,
glggling young thing. Her mature years
OF maidenhood have brought her to a very
practical, II unromantic. view of matri-
mony. When asked II she thought that
marriage at her time Of life would be likely
to promise happiness, she replied:
"Ohl l never believed In early mar.
riages."
n the bride showed her cheerful, pa
tient philosophy of life. remarking:
Being an old maid never bothered me
any. / knew the right man would come
along in time"
Miss Barney was entirely right-a man
did come along at last, after seventy-two
yenrs or more.
But SO many years OF our allotted span
OF iife." the reporter ventured. have been
lost that might have established you with
q happy home and grown-up children, and
perhaps grandchildren-or do you and DR..
Morrison expect that even now you will be
blessed by
at is ridiculous and insulting" the bride
interrupted. "for people to come to us
about raising n family. A man asked me
today what I thought about goat glands
and 1 ordered him out OF the housed"
Would you consider our courtship and
marriage with your hundred.year-old hus-
band to be what the novelists call a 'ro-
mance'?" the reporter asked.
~ do not believe In all this silly twaddle
about romance. Marriage is a partnership,
as l view 1t. We have entered into a cove
nant because the doctor and I have many
interests and tastes in common and we
can be mutually helpful to each other.
This Is a sufficient ground for marriage
without the nonsense OF romantic unreal
tiles"
AFTER looking back over the rather wide
eXpanse Of years and considering the mat
rimonial experiences OF your friends and
relatives. do YOU consider that love
matches are not so durable as the less
romantic marriages like your own?" the
reporter asked.
Young man." said the bride, fixing her
gaze sternly upon the reporter, who had
evidently awakened by this last question
q train Of thought in her mind, "a
woman who dresses herself as most women
do to-day. with disgracefully short skirts
and immodestly low bodies and scantiness
of material that displays every curve,
should not resent whatever insult a man
might see fit to give her. 1t is her dress
ing that arouses the state OF mind which
would give utterance to such thoughts, and
the way she faunts herself leads him to
believe that she is looking and longing for
Just such advances as he makes.
SERIOUS as is the menace to morals.
there Is still a graver danger to the health
Of the race In the way women dress them
selves. There is nothing that a woman
could do which 80 quickly and certainly
undermines her " health and the vitality
of her offspring as the wearing Of high
French heels. The unnatural tilt ut which
Sne muSt Walk throws all OF the organs OF
her body out Of their true position. and it
is this which makes her tire so much more
easily than her mother or grandmother did
under the same amount of exercise or
work. Women nowadays laugh at the little
three-cornered shawls that their grand.
mothers wore. but those little shawls were
one Of the long.life preservers. They kept
the nerve centres at the back Of the neck
warm and protected the exposed lung area
In the back from sudden chills thai como
when the vitality Is a little lowered.
~ feel young" Mrs. Morrison continued.
'and I have kept young by forgetting about
how old I am. When people begin at
twenty to think 4 must look and act and
feel such a way at forty and at fifty and
at seventy they give themselves the sub.
conscious suggestion that invariably works
out tho very conditions they have imagined
to themselves, and then they begin to fear
and to fight old age. which brings It on
faster than ever.
"Women of to-day are burning their lives
out In dissipation. They are dissipating
their energies, chasing the rainbow Of
pleasure and fretting over the rule of the
tyrant Fashion which they themselves
nave created.
II have a great deal to do in the world
yet and ] expect to live to an advanced
age. l 10 not feel any older than when I
was twenty. / lave never been married
before, but DR.. Morrison ia not my first
lover. / have been interested in several
men in my life, but zone who had tho