Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — No Bathin Twenty Years [ARTICLE]

No Bathin Twenty Years

Colorado Woman, 106 Years Old, Declares She Does Not Mean to Begin Killing Herself Now. Denvet, Colo. —“The first person whom I shall visit this merning,’.' said the visiting nurse, “is a woman who is M>6 years old. She's really a living curiosity, she's so old. and yet so alive Her son. who is her only child, and who takes entire care of her. sent for me the other day to come and see Iter “ 'Would you like to have a nurse come and care for you every day 7' I asked " 'Dlnna care, she replied In a broad brogue ‘Only she must not be high flown Thai I can t abide. " Well, wouldn't you like a nice bath?’ " tJo on wld yese, gur-rl I've had ao bath In these twenty years, and I'm not meaning to kill tnesilf now “The old lady Is quite well, despite her burden of years, and Is suf lering from no worse complaint than old age “There's another old woman whose little granddaughter died l&st week I wasn't called In until the child was nearly gone ” I saw at once that It was merely a case of malnutrition, but It was too late to do anything When 1 asked the woman why she hadn't fed the child , properly she drew a long face and looked at me reproachfully ~ 'Sl.ure. and how Ib a busy woman to he always thinking of the cbllder?* she demanded, 'isn't it meself that has a garden to care for ans • cow to feed, not to mention chick-

ens and ducks to look after? Sbure. I'm so hard worked that me arms is only skin and bones.' “The people that I'm most Interested In. though are two poor whites from down in Kentucky. The man used to be a cow-puncher In Idaho, and after he had made a good start he went back home for his bride, who was an old playmate Everything promised well until he was suddenly taken with asthma, and now he -has been laid up for several years His little wife makes a living by doing laundry work at one dollar a day. but they have a fnlghty hard time of it He Is trying to teach himself to read the Bible, which is the only book they own.*'