Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — WOMAN 93, SMOKES PIPE DAY AND NIGHT [ARTICLE]

WOMAN 93, SMOKES PIPE DAY AND NIGHT

“Smoke All the Time If You'd Live Long," Might Be Her Motto. St Paul, Minn.— Mrs. Johann* Olson of this city, hale and spry in her 84th year, appears to believe that tobacco is a sure promoter ot longevity, and her motto, If she should choose one, would probably be, “Smoke an the time If you'd live long.” Mrs. Olson has amniad a pipe for fifty-two years. not just once in a while, bnt all the time. Not only in th* daytime, but she even gets up * half dozen times at night to enjoy her favorite weed. Being deaf and unable to speak English with fluency, Mrs. Olson made no reply to the query as to whether she liked to smoke, but fitting and lighting her pipe with a dexterity that would have turned the average smoker grew with envy, she proceeded to give a demonstration of the pietara of contentment seen only in tobaoao advertisements. - Mrs. Olson was bora in Guttenborg, Sweden, and has lived in BL Paul lor forty-one years. She feels yonag enough to dance with her gmgd* children now and then.