p. 7 | Old Ladies

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jan 24, 1906

Old Ladies

Old Ladies.—The oldest woman in the United States is said to be Mrs. Mary Ramsey Woods, of Hillsborough, Oregon. She is in her one hundred nineteenth year, born two years before the United States Constitution went into effect. When sixty-six years old, she rode a horse from Tennessee to Oregon, all the way. She still is able to thread a needle and does much sewing. And while speaking of smart old ladies, it is well to refer to a colored woman of sixty-five in New York City who hobbles every day a distance of several blocks to attend a night school. She has learned to read and write, and says that when she dies she does not want to go out of the world an "old ignoramus." She is employed nearly all the day in sewing and taking care of the sick. Certainly if an old colored woman like that can get an education under such circumstances, what excuse is there for a well young man or woman?