The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-04-13
NEAR CENTENARIAN LAUGHS
AT THE YEARS AS THEY PASS

A recent issue of the Rene
Gazette has the following on long.
evity as discussed by a well known
woman character interviewed by q
reporter representing the paper:
al am not telling my age, said
DR.. Charlotte de Goliere Davenport
as she sat in the parlor of the
hotel, but l have a son eighty years
DID,
"a little later, however, she said
she was born in st. Petersburg in
1926, so that she is now in her
9th year. She has every appear
ance of being as vigorous and ply
sically fit as a woman half her age
and less. Her home is in Phila-
delphia, but she and Mr.. Daven-
port, who is a mere youth of 81
summers, are travelling, as DR.. Dav-
export will tell you, for her hus.
bands health DR.. Davenport is
lecturing on health subjects and
will appear tonight under the aus
pices of the Century club, to whose
members she talked informally last
Friday.
Incidentally she said, L am
getting my own youth back under
the influence of the bracing eli
mate of the west. We left the
California coast and came here
because of the higher attitudes
and it was too damp down there.
The few days we have been here
have done wonders for US.
'Dr. Davenport is no languid
easy-chair person. When she talks
she sits bolt upright on the edge
of the chair aand bounces around
when she become animated, which
is often, for the years have not
dimmed the ardency of her slavic
blood She is Of Russian-Polish
percentage, but for political reas-
ons, her father, who was a friend
of the people, was forced to flee
from Russia. He settled in Gen.
eva where DIR. Davenport was mar
ried when she was fifteen years
of age.
They married their girls off
young in those days. said DR..
Davenport.
DR.. Davenport studied medicine
in Vienna and in various German
universities, spending SO much time
in the Fatherland that in what may
be termed her composite accent,
the Teutonic suggestion predomin-
aes. She had friends in all the
armies during the world war.
az do not believe in old age at
ALL" she said, and as for cosmet-
les and other artificial aids to the
retention of youthful bloom, she
places them in the same limbo with
pills, believing in neither.
AS for wrinkles she added,
they are a matter of disposition.
Most wrinkles are caused by bad
dispositions. l was more wrinkled
when was fifty years old than
l am now. l had a quick temper
but learned to control it,
She has not eaten meat since
she was twenty-one, she believes
in exercise and fresh air, raw veg
etables, butter-milk and lots of
water Neither would she have
anyone eat unless they are posi-
lively hungry.
CDR. Davenport has a bulky vol
ume OF newspaper clippings, show
ing that city editors from end to
end of the country have considered
her page one for many years.
Among them is one from the Mar
ion Star, written by President
Harding himself, when he perhaps
had no notion of ever becoming the
president.
In hundred years people will
look on US as barbarians,' she said,
recalling the vast changes in the
country which she has SO nearly
seen. 1T will take several hundred
years for the world to learn to live
right, but it's learning."'