Show OLDEST LIVING WOMAN In the city of Posen in the German province of ot the tho same ame name name the oldest woman In the world Is about to enter upon the year of her life unless death has overtaken her since the re receipt receipt ro re- of the latest news from tram that part of Europe She i is Ia Frau Gretchen Dut Duta and she has spent practically all her life lite in Posen Fosen She was a a. young woman when Napoleon and his legions legIons' swept like a conflagration over Europe s sand and has lived JIved to see a similar catastrophe catas cats engulf almost the entire civilIzed civilized civilized civil civil- world Frederick the Great was as still alive when l Frau Tau was born and only a few years before Voltaire had gone to his long rest The German empire of ot today wa was then an aggregation aga of petty warring states and the American Union had just been born out of the travail of ot revolution Three centuries the eighteenth the nineteenth and the twentieth this this woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man has seen geen and within the compass ot of or her lifetime a new civilization has sprung up in Europe and America a Do civilization now in the balance and and I threatened by the land which gave ner ncr birth |