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Show 210 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER thinks Japan may be the place. But the whole experiment must be perfectly understood, and controlled, and there must be no slip-up. She must be sure of the next, larger-scale experiment. All during our conversation, she adroitly turned the talk towards Harold and me. Surprised at our large breakfast, she commented that it was a protein meal. She had recently read study on healthy old age which recommended a diet com posed largely of protein. She said her husband had been English, had always eaten a large breakfast, often a chop or kidney, and had lived to a healthy eighty. He had a stroke, and died quite soon thereafter. Harold showed how his waist line is diminishing. She herself ate only oatmeal with honey, and coffee. We ordered a large fresh orange juice for her, but when she saw we ordered grapefruit juice she changed hers a to that, out of courtesy or economy, I am sure. She said that she lives in Tucson which is low and dry. She said she never dared to come to Denver because of the alti tude, but later said that if we wanted to make money for the Japan Conference, she would dare the altitude. (This after we told her it was only 5,000 feet. She seemed to have thought it was more.) I told her something of our Denver situation, that she had been accepted as member of the Denver Area Welfare Council, but not of the Community Chest. "Oh," said she, "so much the better. As a member you would be supervised and watched; your friends would be limited; you could not expand; you would stop growing. Not belonging is in your favor; keep out of it." Afterwards we went to her room and she gave me address es to people along our route of travel. She urged me to write ahead to them to be sure of appointments. Now to remember further details. She showed me an old wooden box containing a scroll belonging to the Ming dynasty. She said unrolled it would fill the room. It was a gift just received from the government. She said her son soon caught up with his schooling. She made him study the history of every country they visited. |
