The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-08-09

VI wv dIld hSditl ii0eiiONo anu q
robust example of her own teach
ings, is in Great Falls.
DIR. Davenport has the face and
carriage of a woman of 60 and the
figure of a woman Of 35. iShe car
ries a t~ireless hammer for the mid
die aged' fapper and condemns mod
ern foods, modern cookery and the
laziness Of modern womanhood.
Work, she declares, is an essential to
longlivity, 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 over eating than result from fam
ines in Europe.
Drink water, lots of it.
Learn to cook for health, not for
flavor.
Here Is Years Ago
DR.. Davenport is making her first
visit to Montana in 25 years. On
her last visit to the state she lee
tured in Butte and remembers at
the time there was a bitter contro-
versy On between the Heinze, Clark
and the DAILY copper interests. She
is in Great Falls now 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 | did
not receive anything from incomes
which I have had from Europe for
many years." she said. "But I did
not want. Women in Philadelphia,
my home city, are anxious to pay
me anything I ask to tell them how
to stay young"
DIR. Davenport took a 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 post graduate courses.
She is the mother of 10 children, IL
of whom are living and one of whom
is now 81 years of age. She pre-
fers stairs to elevators, goes on long
hikes, takes a strenuous course in
calesthenics daily, rides, swims and
scorns powder, rouge, grease paint,
and never has worn corsets. She is
accompanied by her husband, who is
43 years her junior. They were
married when he was Is and she SO
and she declares that their union was
a perfect marriage. The husband is
a member of an old southern family
and a first cousin of Lady Aston.
Protests Title
Reference to her title brings a
from DR.. Davenport. 81 do
Tot like to be called countess" she
says. IT am 100 per cent American.
tell my husband that I am a better
American than he is. I especially OBJ
ect to using my title for the reason
hat so many titled foreigners come
America who don't measure up"
DR.. Davenport teaches fencing and
ences with her husband nearly every
ay. She says laziness is running
american women. |
"In the New England states women
till work." she said. They take a
ride in their homework. I have been
ctive all my life, every minute of i.
very day has been crammed full :
f just a little more than. I could
ccomplish.
"My waistline is 25 inches. Feel t
lie muscle in my arms! I could give \
ny younger woman a tussle. I feel q
Ike a school girl. Q
"Your modern women, and ] do J
OF refer to fiappers, they are just "
lily school girls, and could be taught e
make real women of themselves, u
at your women of 3oi They are a
abby and soft. Is
erich foods. late hours. IRREGULAR :
lting, scar oh for new thrills, Jack Of :
these bring siunlped bodies
figures, poor health and make
omen OH at 40 r
~ give women tie dickens because
to waYe them up. | talk prc,- n
plain CO some of. Them who como to
e me, and they do not IKE it. They
ant me to pet them ell sympathi<e
tn them and 1atter them.
"Women Of America need a jolt to A,
yaken them from the serene slum. on
r that is weakening the race. How in
n such women have healthy child in;
n? oil
Men Also At Fault tn
"And men are quite as bad. They tai
themselves, every pore Of their In
dies, up with nicotine, and they an
ase around and abuse themselves
lots of ways they do not tell about thi
mi
Living is too easy for most of us. on
e need more struggle, more activ- I'M
:, more worry, more tears, more VI
lghter-all these emotions were fol
zen us that they might be used. WI
ats the reason for happiness, for We
row, for trouble. 'oI