Mrs. Coombs entered the six months probation at the Home in Oct. 1916, having entered the Home in April 1916.
Mrs. Coombs was listed in the 1920 Census as 83 years of age,a widow, born in England and immigrated to the USA in 1871. She became a citizen in 1872. She also came to Buffalo in 1872. She was a resident of the Home for the Friendless (now known as the Bristol Home), 1500 Main Street, Buffalo, NY.
BUFFALO NY COURIER
SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1922 (Page # blurred)
Fountain of Youth, Be It In The Form of Monkey Gland, or Human, Holds No Allurement For Gentle Women Who Have Seen Nearly a Century: "Merely For Youth, They Assert, For They Await End: Things Going Too Fast, Too Many Tangles, "We Must Make Room for Coming Generations", Some of Thoughts Expressed by Elderly Folk Who Have Passed Three Score and Ten and Even Four Score, and They Laugh at Suggestion of Living 100 Years or More: These Elderly Women Would Pass up Chance At Living Another 100 Years: Black/white photo: Left to Right: Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, Mrs. Jane Coombs, Mrs. Anna Hardy, and Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hampel). Top insert: Miss Alice Carruthers, superintendent of Home. Lower insert: Miss Charlotte Seymour.
Bring on your life-lengthening glands, monkey or human, but bring them for youth. Old age, silvered in hair and desire by years of time and its troubles, has spoken against the newfangled fad of trying to live beyond the usual span of life on borrowed hours.
"No" and Then They Laugh: Would you, if you could, prolong your life to an age of 200 or 300 years and follow in the footsteps of Methusaleh?
Jane was the daughter of William Lawrence. She was born in England. She died at the Home for the Friendless on October 18, 1923. She was 85 years of age, and a widow. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
The question was asked of a dozen gentle women, residents of the Home for the Friendless, whose totaled ages would reach far beyond the proposed figure.
The answer can be summed up easily into one short word, "No!" For every reply begun with that small word, and ended with a laugh.
These were not dour, sad old people either. They dared to laugh at George Bernard Shaw and his idea that the world in general would go back to Methusaleh if it could. The foolishness of the man! They are experts in the feelings of old age, and they know that it is only youth that longs to continue forever and a day the wild whirl of life.
Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hempel) looked up from her newspaper to explain why, after 95 years of the world and its ways, both glad and sorry, she is ready "to be called at any time."
Too Many Tangles: "My brother said that I have been living on borrowed time as it is," she twinkled, for she is proud of her achievement in age nonetheless. "Things are going too fast for me nowadays. When I was young there were not so many tangles. Men got up and went to work at 6 in the morning. But now they have such dreadful strikes. Dear me!" She shook her head until her little frill cap was all a-tremble.
When Mrs. Hamper (Hampel) came to Buffalo as a child of five, the trip from New York City took seven days by canal boat. And before that with her father and small brothers and sisters, she spent 36 days coming on sail boat from Germany.
"We lived like angels in the olden days if you compare them with these," she continued. "I remember once that a man was killed on election day and all of Buffalo was upset. Why now they have half-a-dozen killings in a day. I never saw such murderings and goings-on."
Things "Upside Down": Her almost twin, Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, who will have 96 candles on her birthday cake, September 1, was equally upset by the idea of being able to watch the world continue its dizzy whirl for another hundred years.
"Everything is turned upside down of late," she said with a puzzled smile on her softly wrinkled face. "And I am so sorry for the girls of today. Such terrible things happen to them. When I read about those two girls who were taken into that car in Main Street Saturday night, I cried. I felt so badly for them."
A century of life is all that Mrs. Wilson wishes for, though her days are happy ones, spent in reading and friendliness. She has been a resident of Buffalo since 1835 and she loves the place in spite of its bewildering, noisy ways now that it is a city grown.
After she could speak for chuckling, Mrs. Jane Coombs, 87 years old and still young, exclaimed that "whoever had the idea that people wanted to live to be 200 or 300 years old was very foolish."
That for Bernard.
Mrs. Coombs came to Buffalo from England 50 years ago. She is an energetic little person, but her ambition for age stops at 93, which would equal the record by her father.
Mirth With Every Answer: And so the answers came, varying only in the reasons given, all of them accompanied by mirth. It was so funny that anyone should not want to make room for the eager generations to come.
"We have had the romance of life and are ready to leave the world to the management of the younger folks. The world would be too thickly populated if we lived to such a great age." This from Mrs. Anna Hardy, 72 years old.
Mrs. Charlotte Seymour proved herself just a girl when she wouldn't tell her age. Since 1873 Buffalo has been her home city, and while she is proud of its progress, she has no desire to see it 100 years hence. "I'm not going to try to live to be a couple of hundred years old, said Miss Mary Kennedy, as she rocked and sewed on the sun-touched veranda of the home. And with smiling shakes of their heads, Mrs. Caroline Barber and Miss Barbara Ritzman echoed her declaration.
Daughter of William Lawrence. Born in England, died at 1500 Main St, Buffalo, Home of the Friendless. A widow, aged 85. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
Mrs. Coombs was listed in the 1920 Census as 83 years of age,a widow, born in England and immigrated to the USA in 1871. She became a citizen in 1872. She also came to Buffalo in 1872. She was a resident of the Home for the Friendless (now known as the Bristol Home), 1500 Main Street, Buffalo, NY.
BUFFALO NY COURIER
SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1922 (Page # blurred)
Fountain of Youth, Be It In The Form of Monkey Gland, or Human, Holds No Allurement For Gentle Women Who Have Seen Nearly a Century: "Merely For Youth, They Assert, For They Await End: Things Going Too Fast, Too Many Tangles, "We Must Make Room for Coming Generations", Some of Thoughts Expressed by Elderly Folk Who Have Passed Three Score and Ten and Even Four Score, and They Laugh at Suggestion of Living 100 Years or More: These Elderly Women Would Pass up Chance At Living Another 100 Years: Black/white photo: Left to Right: Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, Mrs. Jane Coombs, Mrs. Anna Hardy, and Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hampel). Top insert: Miss Alice Carruthers, superintendent of Home. Lower insert: Miss Charlotte Seymour.
Bring on your life-lengthening glands, monkey or human, but bring them for youth. Old age, silvered in hair and desire by years of time and its troubles, has spoken against the newfangled fad of trying to live beyond the usual span of life on borrowed hours.
"No" and Then They Laugh: Would you, if you could, prolong your life to an age of 200 or 300 years and follow in the footsteps of Methusaleh?
Jane was the daughter of William Lawrence. She was born in England. She died at the Home for the Friendless on October 18, 1923. She was 85 years of age, and a widow. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
The question was asked of a dozen gentle women, residents of the Home for the Friendless, whose totaled ages would reach far beyond the proposed figure.
The answer can be summed up easily into one short word, "No!" For every reply begun with that small word, and ended with a laugh.
These were not dour, sad old people either. They dared to laugh at George Bernard Shaw and his idea that the world in general would go back to Methusaleh if it could. The foolishness of the man! They are experts in the feelings of old age, and they know that it is only youth that longs to continue forever and a day the wild whirl of life.
Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hempel) looked up from her newspaper to explain why, after 95 years of the world and its ways, both glad and sorry, she is ready "to be called at any time."
Too Many Tangles: "My brother said that I have been living on borrowed time as it is," she twinkled, for she is proud of her achievement in age nonetheless. "Things are going too fast for me nowadays. When I was young there were not so many tangles. Men got up and went to work at 6 in the morning. But now they have such dreadful strikes. Dear me!" She shook her head until her little frill cap was all a-tremble.
When Mrs. Hamper (Hampel) came to Buffalo as a child of five, the trip from New York City took seven days by canal boat. And before that with her father and small brothers and sisters, she spent 36 days coming on sail boat from Germany.
"We lived like angels in the olden days if you compare them with these," she continued. "I remember once that a man was killed on election day and all of Buffalo was upset. Why now they have half-a-dozen killings in a day. I never saw such murderings and goings-on."
Things "Upside Down": Her almost twin, Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, who will have 96 candles on her birthday cake, September 1, was equally upset by the idea of being able to watch the world continue its dizzy whirl for another hundred years.
"Everything is turned upside down of late," she said with a puzzled smile on her softly wrinkled face. "And I am so sorry for the girls of today. Such terrible things happen to them. When I read about those two girls who were taken into that car in Main Street Saturday night, I cried. I felt so badly for them."
A century of life is all that Mrs. Wilson wishes for, though her days are happy ones, spent in reading and friendliness. She has been a resident of Buffalo since 1835 and she loves the place in spite of its bewildering, noisy ways now that it is a city grown.
After she could speak for chuckling, Mrs. Jane Coombs, 87 years old and still young, exclaimed that "whoever had the idea that people wanted to live to be 200 or 300 years old was very foolish."
That for Bernard.
Mrs. Coombs came to Buffalo from England 50 years ago. She is an energetic little person, but her ambition for age stops at 93, which would equal the record by her father.
Mirth With Every Answer: And so the answers came, varying only in the reasons given, all of them accompanied by mirth. It was so funny that anyone should not want to make room for the eager generations to come.
"We have had the romance of life and are ready to leave the world to the management of the younger folks. The world would be too thickly populated if we lived to such a great age." This from Mrs. Anna Hardy, 72 years old.
Mrs. Charlotte Seymour proved herself just a girl when she wouldn't tell her age. Since 1873 Buffalo has been her home city, and while she is proud of its progress, she has no desire to see it 100 years hence. "I'm not going to try to live to be a couple of hundred years old, said Miss Mary Kennedy, as she rocked and sewed on the sun-touched veranda of the home. And with smiling shakes of their heads, Mrs. Caroline Barber and Miss Barbara Ritzman echoed her declaration.
Daughter of William Lawrence. Born in England, died at 1500 Main St, Buffalo, Home of the Friendless. A widow, aged 85. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
Mrs. Coombs entered the six months probation at the Home in Oct. 1916, having entered the Home in April 1916.
Mrs. Coombs was listed in the 1920 Census as 83 years of age,a widow, born in England and immigrated to the USA in 1871. She became a citizen in 1872. She also came to Buffalo in 1872. She was a resident of the Home for the Friendless (now known as the Bristol Home), 1500 Main Street, Buffalo, NY.
BUFFALO NY COURIER
SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1922 (Page # blurred)
Fountain of Youth, Be It In The Form of Monkey Gland, or Human, Holds No Allurement For Gentle Women Who Have Seen Nearly a Century: "Merely For Youth, They Assert, For They Await End: Things Going Too Fast, Too Many Tangles, "We Must Make Room for Coming Generations", Some of Thoughts Expressed by Elderly Folk Who Have Passed Three Score and Ten and Even Four Score, and They Laugh at Suggestion of Living 100 Years or More: These Elderly Women Would Pass up Chance At Living Another 100 Years: Black/white photo: Left to Right: Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, Mrs. Jane Coombs, Mrs. Anna Hardy, and Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hampel). Top insert: Miss Alice Carruthers, superintendent of Home. Lower insert: Miss Charlotte Seymour.
Bring on your life-lengthening glands, monkey or human, but bring them for youth. Old age, silvered in hair and desire by years of time and its troubles, has spoken against the newfangled fad of trying to live beyond the usual span of life on borrowed hours.
"No" and Then They Laugh: Would you, if you could, prolong your life to an age of 200 or 300 years and follow in the footsteps of Methusaleh?
Jane was the daughter of William Lawrence. She was born in England. She died at the Home for the Friendless on October 18, 1923. She was 85 years of age, and a widow. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
The question was asked of a dozen gentle women, residents of the Home for the Friendless, whose totaled ages would reach far beyond the proposed figure.
The answer can be summed up easily into one short word, "No!" For every reply begun with that small word, and ended with a laugh.
These were not dour, sad old people either. They dared to laugh at George Bernard Shaw and his idea that the world in general would go back to Methusaleh if it could. The foolishness of the man! They are experts in the feelings of old age, and they know that it is only youth that longs to continue forever and a day the wild whirl of life.
Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hempel) looked up from her newspaper to explain why, after 95 years of the world and its ways, both glad and sorry, she is ready "to be called at any time."
Too Many Tangles: "My brother said that I have been living on borrowed time as it is," she twinkled, for she is proud of her achievement in age nonetheless. "Things are going too fast for me nowadays. When I was young there were not so many tangles. Men got up and went to work at 6 in the morning. But now they have such dreadful strikes. Dear me!" She shook her head until her little frill cap was all a-tremble.
When Mrs. Hamper (Hampel) came to Buffalo as a child of five, the trip from New York City took seven days by canal boat. And before that with her father and small brothers and sisters, she spent 36 days coming on sail boat from Germany.
"We lived like angels in the olden days if you compare them with these," she continued. "I remember once that a man was killed on election day and all of Buffalo was upset. Why now they have half-a-dozen killings in a day. I never saw such murderings and goings-on."
Things "Upside Down": Her almost twin, Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, who will have 96 candles on her birthday cake, September 1, was equally upset by the idea of being able to watch the world continue its dizzy whirl for another hundred years.
"Everything is turned upside down of late," she said with a puzzled smile on her softly wrinkled face. "And I am so sorry for the girls of today. Such terrible things happen to them. When I read about those two girls who were taken into that car in Main Street Saturday night, I cried. I felt so badly for them."
A century of life is all that Mrs. Wilson wishes for, though her days are happy ones, spent in reading and friendliness. She has been a resident of Buffalo since 1835 and she loves the place in spite of its bewildering, noisy ways now that it is a city grown.
After she could speak for chuckling, Mrs. Jane Coombs, 87 years old and still young, exclaimed that "whoever had the idea that people wanted to live to be 200 or 300 years old was very foolish."
That for Bernard.
Mrs. Coombs came to Buffalo from England 50 years ago. She is an energetic little person, but her ambition for age stops at 93, which would equal the record by her father.
Mirth With Every Answer: And so the answers came, varying only in the reasons given, all of them accompanied by mirth. It was so funny that anyone should not want to make room for the eager generations to come.
"We have had the romance of life and are ready to leave the world to the management of the younger folks. The world would be too thickly populated if we lived to such a great age." This from Mrs. Anna Hardy, 72 years old.
Mrs. Charlotte Seymour proved herself just a girl when she wouldn't tell her age. Since 1873 Buffalo has been her home city, and while she is proud of its progress, she has no desire to see it 100 years hence. "I'm not going to try to live to be a couple of hundred years old, said Miss Mary Kennedy, as she rocked and sewed on the sun-touched veranda of the home. And with smiling shakes of their heads, Mrs. Caroline Barber and Miss Barbara Ritzman echoed her declaration.
Daughter of William Lawrence. Born in England, died at 1500 Main St, Buffalo, Home of the Friendless. A widow, aged 85. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
Mrs. Coombs was listed in the 1920 Census as 83 years of age,a widow, born in England and immigrated to the USA in 1871. She became a citizen in 1872. She also came to Buffalo in 1872. She was a resident of the Home for the Friendless (now known as the Bristol Home), 1500 Main Street, Buffalo, NY.
BUFFALO NY COURIER
SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1922 (Page # blurred)
Fountain of Youth, Be It In The Form of Monkey Gland, or Human, Holds No Allurement For Gentle Women Who Have Seen Nearly a Century: "Merely For Youth, They Assert, For They Await End: Things Going Too Fast, Too Many Tangles, "We Must Make Room for Coming Generations", Some of Thoughts Expressed by Elderly Folk Who Have Passed Three Score and Ten and Even Four Score, and They Laugh at Suggestion of Living 100 Years or More: These Elderly Women Would Pass up Chance At Living Another 100 Years: Black/white photo: Left to Right: Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, Mrs. Jane Coombs, Mrs. Anna Hardy, and Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hampel). Top insert: Miss Alice Carruthers, superintendent of Home. Lower insert: Miss Charlotte Seymour.
Bring on your life-lengthening glands, monkey or human, but bring them for youth. Old age, silvered in hair and desire by years of time and its troubles, has spoken against the newfangled fad of trying to live beyond the usual span of life on borrowed hours.
"No" and Then They Laugh: Would you, if you could, prolong your life to an age of 200 or 300 years and follow in the footsteps of Methusaleh?
Jane was the daughter of William Lawrence. She was born in England. She died at the Home for the Friendless on October 18, 1923. She was 85 years of age, and a widow. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
The question was asked of a dozen gentle women, residents of the Home for the Friendless, whose totaled ages would reach far beyond the proposed figure.
The answer can be summed up easily into one short word, "No!" For every reply begun with that small word, and ended with a laugh.
These were not dour, sad old people either. They dared to laugh at George Bernard Shaw and his idea that the world in general would go back to Methusaleh if it could. The foolishness of the man! They are experts in the feelings of old age, and they know that it is only youth that longs to continue forever and a day the wild whirl of life.
Mrs. Margaret Hamper (Hempel) looked up from her newspaper to explain why, after 95 years of the world and its ways, both glad and sorry, she is ready "to be called at any time."
Too Many Tangles: "My brother said that I have been living on borrowed time as it is," she twinkled, for she is proud of her achievement in age nonetheless. "Things are going too fast for me nowadays. When I was young there were not so many tangles. Men got up and went to work at 6 in the morning. But now they have such dreadful strikes. Dear me!" She shook her head until her little frill cap was all a-tremble.
When Mrs. Hamper (Hampel) came to Buffalo as a child of five, the trip from New York City took seven days by canal boat. And before that with her father and small brothers and sisters, she spent 36 days coming on sail boat from Germany.
"We lived like angels in the olden days if you compare them with these," she continued. "I remember once that a man was killed on election day and all of Buffalo was upset. Why now they have half-a-dozen killings in a day. I never saw such murderings and goings-on."
Things "Upside Down": Her almost twin, Mrs. Catherine M. Wilson, who will have 96 candles on her birthday cake, September 1, was equally upset by the idea of being able to watch the world continue its dizzy whirl for another hundred years.
"Everything is turned upside down of late," she said with a puzzled smile on her softly wrinkled face. "And I am so sorry for the girls of today. Such terrible things happen to them. When I read about those two girls who were taken into that car in Main Street Saturday night, I cried. I felt so badly for them."
A century of life is all that Mrs. Wilson wishes for, though her days are happy ones, spent in reading and friendliness. She has been a resident of Buffalo since 1835 and she loves the place in spite of its bewildering, noisy ways now that it is a city grown.
After she could speak for chuckling, Mrs. Jane Coombs, 87 years old and still young, exclaimed that "whoever had the idea that people wanted to live to be 200 or 300 years old was very foolish."
That for Bernard.
Mrs. Coombs came to Buffalo from England 50 years ago. She is an energetic little person, but her ambition for age stops at 93, which would equal the record by her father.
Mirth With Every Answer: And so the answers came, varying only in the reasons given, all of them accompanied by mirth. It was so funny that anyone should not want to make room for the eager generations to come.
"We have had the romance of life and are ready to leave the world to the management of the younger folks. The world would be too thickly populated if we lived to such a great age." This from Mrs. Anna Hardy, 72 years old.
Mrs. Charlotte Seymour proved herself just a girl when she wouldn't tell her age. Since 1873 Buffalo has been her home city, and while she is proud of its progress, she has no desire to see it 100 years hence. "I'm not going to try to live to be a couple of hundred years old, said Miss Mary Kennedy, as she rocked and sewed on the sun-touched veranda of the home. And with smiling shakes of their heads, Mrs. Caroline Barber and Miss Barbara Ritzman echoed her declaration.
Daughter of William Lawrence. Born in England, died at 1500 Main St, Buffalo, Home of the Friendless. A widow, aged 85. Cause of death: Acute Cholecystitis.
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