A CENTENARIAN SMOKER.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3570, 24 March 1880, Page 3

A CENTENARIAN SMOKER.

We lately chronicled the death of a stout centenarian in the Island of Bkye, au old woman, but the really 'oldestinhabitant/ is nowVdead. and she, too, was Scotch* Mrs Margaret Bobertson, or Duncan, died two daya-sinee at Coiipar Angus, m her 107 th year.;- She was born in Glenshoe. we are told, in 17 3. and had lived under {lie reigns ofthree British Kings and one Queen. Until about six or'eight yeans ago. she retained possession of all her faculties, but then she became blind, and. about a year since bedridden. She was.' very intelligent, it is stated, and talked ia terms of becoming soorn of the poor feeble creatures who cculd not manage to lire more than a paltry eighty or ninety years, whioh she declared wa3 J na aee ava" (Anglicef at all'). But how did this seasoned.old daw, it b e asked, manage to top. the century in longevity? For one thing she was a devoted smoker, The olay pipe was constantly i n her mouth and she repudiated the notion that it could do her any harm. When spoken to about the injurious effects of tobacco, her invari. able answer was,/ I've smoked a' my days. U shad plenty time to dae mo ill, and it's never socht (sought). Mrs Duncan's deduction from her long experience trill bo admitted to be perfectly sound, and every smoker wilier with pride to tho tough old lady of Coupar Aneus as o. conclusive proof of the antiseptic propMtMß of this favoured weed,~Zo&