The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-08-17
WOMAN PHYSICIAN
is YOUNG AT 81
RUSSIAN COUNTESS, VISITING IN
MONTANA, TELLS SECRET
OF LONGEVITY
Is Mother of 10 Children, One of
Whom is 81 Years of Age; Hus-
band, 43 Years Her Junior, Ac-
companies Her.

methods and robust example of her
own teachings, was in Great Falls a
few days ago.
DR.. Davenport has the face and
carriage of a woman of so and the
figure of woman of 35. She car
ries a tireless hammer for the mid
dle-aged' flapper and condemns
modern foods, modern cookery and
the laziness of modern womanhood.
Work, she declares, is an essential
to longevity, and to this prescription
she adds:
Eat no meat
Let the body perspire, not in a
Turkish bath, but through exercise.
Eat vegetables raw, and in soups.
Drink buttermilk and orange juice.
Do not eat unless you are hungry.
Stop before you have satisfied your
self. More Americans die every year
of overeating than result from fam
ines in Europe.
Drink water, lots of it.
Learn to cook for health, not for
flavor.
Second State Visit
DIR. Davenport is making her first
visit to Montana in 25 years. On her
last visit to the state she lectured in
Butte, and remembers that at the
time there was bitter controversy
on between the Heinze, Clark and
DAILY copper interests. She was in
Great Falls this time to look after
some investments in this portion of
the state, among which is a block
of Anaconda Copper Mining company
stock valued at $4,000.
During and after the war I did
not receive anything from incomes
which / have had from Europe for
many years. she said. "But 1 did
not want. Women in Philadelphia,
nay home city, are anxious to pay me
anything I ask to tell them how to
stay young"
DR.. Davenport took medical
course in a foreign university at the
age of SO, because she wanted to en-
courage a son in its study. Later
she took Is postgraduate courses. |
She is the mother of 18 children, IL |
of whom are living and one of whom |
now is 81 years of age. She prefers
stairs to elevators, goes on long
hikes, takes a strenuous course in
scorns powder, rouge, grease paint,
and never has worn corsets. She is |
by her husband, who |
is 43 years her junior. They were
married when he was rs and she 68
and she declares that their union
was perfect marriage. The hus-
band is a member of an old southern
family and first cousin of Lady
Aston.
Protests Title
Reference to her title brings pro-
test from Dr. Davenport. 81 do not
ike to be called countess" she says.
Il am 100 per cent American. I tell
my husband that am a better Amer
can than he I especially object to
using my title for the reason that so
many titled foreigners come to Amer
ca who don't measure up"
DR.. Davenport teaches fencing and
'ences with her husband nearly every
lay. She says laziness is running
American women.
'In New England states women
till work. she said. "They take a
,ride in their homework. / have {
,een active all my life, every minute
# every day has been crammed full I
# just a little more than I could ac- j
my waistline is rs inches. Feel ]
he muscle in my arms! could give {
many a younger woman a tussle.
eel like school girl.
"Your modern women, and I do c
lot refer to flappers, they are just ]
lily schoolgirls, and could be taught I
o make real women of themselves,
tut your women of 35i They are
labby and soft.
Rich foods, late hours, irregular
ating, search for new thrills, lack of :
xercise-these bring slumped bodies :
errible figures, poor health, and /.
lake women old at 40.
81 give women the dickens because ?
want to wake them up. l talk
retty plain to some of them who ?
ONE to see me, and they do not like y
). They want me to pet them and !
with them and flatter !.
hem.
women of America need jolt to
waken them from the serene slum-
er that is weakening the race. How
IN such women have healthy chill t,
rem? a
"And men are quite as bad. They c.
II themselves, every pore of their C
odies, up with nicotine and they s.
1ase around and abuse themselves CT
| lots of ways they do not tell about Y
ublicly. p
Living is too easy for most of us. il
Te need more struggle, more activi- r,
Z, more worry, more tears, more 81
these emotions were C,
wen us that they might be used.
hats the reason for happiness, for
'rrow, for trouble. Of
Lack of proper cooking has driv- h
/ many man away from his home Ii
i'd many of them haven't even d.
1own the reason. I'd like to teach in
me of those women how to cook.
could stop a lot of desertion."
DR.. Davenport came to Montana fl
ON tour of the South Sea islands,
Id is delivering only an occasional
cture. She spoke in Salt Lake City ps
10000 people, she says, and pride
lily declares that but 5000 heard ''y
resident Harding's address in that as