The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16
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.

just rounding out her ninety-seventl
year, a student of diet and healtl
methods and a robust example of he
own teachings, was in Great Falls
few days ago..
DR.. Davenport has the face ant
carriage of a woman OF 60 and thu
figure of a woman of 35. She car
rieS a tireless hammer for the mid
dle-aged" flapper and condemns
modern foods, modern cookery ant
the laziness of modern womanhood
Work, she declares, is an essentia
to longevity, and to this prescription
she adds:
Eat no meat.
Let the body p%erspire, not in 8
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
DR.. 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 a 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 / 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 / ask to tell them how to
stay young"
curse in a foreign university at the
age of 80, because she wanted to en-
courage a son in its study. Later
she took Is postgraduate courses.
She is the mother of 10 children, II
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
calisthenics daily, rides, swims, and
scorns powder, rouge, grease paint,
and has worn corsets. She is
accompanied 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
vas a perfect marriage. The hus-
band is a member of an old southern
family and a first cousin of Lady
Aston.
Protests Title
Reference to her title brings a pro-
test from DR.. Davenport. II do not
like to be called countess" she says.
IT am 100 per cent American. I tell
my husband that I am a better Amer
lean than he. I especially object to
using my title for the reason that so
many titled foreigners come to Amer
lea who don't measure up"
DR.. Davenport teaches fencing and
fences with her husband nearly every
day. She says laziness is running
women.
I'm New England states women
still work." she said. "They take a
pride in their homework. I have
been active all my life, every minute
of every day has been crammed full
Of just a little more than / could ac-
compIish.
"My waistline is 25 inches. Feel
the muscle in my arms! I could give
many a younger woman a tussle. I
feel like a school girl.
"YOur modern women, and I do
not refer to flappers, they are just
silly schoolgirls, and could be taught
70 make real women of themselves,
but your women of IS! They are
,labby and soft.
Erich foods, late hours, irregular
search for new thrills, lack of
sxercise-these bring slumped bodies
.errible figures, poor health, and
make women old at 40.
~ give women the dickens because
want to wake them up. I talk
pretty plain to some of them who
,one to see me, and they do not like
t. They want me to pet them and
,ympathize with them and ~flatter
hem.
Women of America need a jolt to
.waken them from the serene slum-
'er that is weakening the ace. How
an such women have healthy chill
{
"And men are quite as bad. They {
i'll themselves, every pore OF their {
up with nicotine. and they
base around and abuse themselves {
q lots of ways they do not tell about
ublicly. !
Living is too easy for most of US. i
We need more struggle, more activi- I
Y, more worry, more tears, more S
aughter-all these emotions were {
iven US that they might be used.
hats the reason for happiness, for
Drrow, for trouble. 9
Lack of proper cooking has driv- b
a many a man away from his home i
nd many of them haven't even d
nown the reason. I'd like to teach i
ome Of those women how to cook.
could stop a lot of desertion."
DR.. Davenport came to Montana f.
ON a tour Of the South Sea islands, a
nd is delivering only an occasional
'cture. She spoke in Salt Lake City p
10, 600 people, she says, and PRIDE
,1Jv docIaroc that huf e q heard i"