Show A downEast paper tells of Mrs I Elizabeth Cooper Mclntyro who was born November 21 1800 and therefore by thIs time hag lived In three ecu turlesj And It Is told of her that shelf she-lf nc bel when this country had no postage stamps no gas no police no steamships no railroads no telegraph no cable no electric light no telephone no r elevators no street railways no cable cars no trolley cars She had no need to have lived half that time not to havfe known of some of those I things postage stamp Is modern invention The policemen were simply called watchmen everyone hired ono for himself Steamships are a modern feature Railroads are not very ancienti The telegraph J came In In the QS the e1ectrlc light in the 70s also the telephone and the cable cars while the trolleys came in tire SOs But that old girl did not see a sewing machine for the first fifty yeans of her life She would have been afraid to eat bread made from baking powder iiud bhe by accident lain down on a spring bed fhe would have Jumped oft thinking It was snakes She did not alon upon a hardwood floor until she was fifty years old The chances sire that she never rode in a spring buggy until after she was married and when hc was a baby the Fourth of July orators made speeches of the grandeur of the country coun-try and how tremendous It would be in Dower J when lt < was settled clear back olhe AJlegUcnies and would have fan I J area three times as great as Great Britain I Brit-ain or France |