CENTENARIAN'S ROMANCE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 12

CENTENARIAN'S ROMANCE.

A HAPPY REUNION. Tho hundredth birthday of Miss Ruth Roberts, of has been followed by a romance. Owing tp the publicity given to tho fact that sho had reached 100 years, sho has discovered that Mr. Adam Roberts, her brother, who sho believed had died many years ago, is still alive. Mr. Roberts, who celebrated his eightysoventh birthday recently, is tho youngest member of a family of twenty-two, all of whom were given liiblo names. He lives at Sittingbourne with his widowed daughter, and, like his sister, ho had believed that all the other members of tho family were dead. "I would walk every i;tep of the way to see her," he .declared when ho learnt that his 6ister was aliv'3, but this was not necessary, for a Folkestone resident has arranged to fetch him in his motor-car. Brother and sister were overjoyod at tho prospect of seeing oho another after a separation of a quarter of a century. Miss Roberts retains all her faculties, and can walk comfortably, with tho aid of a stick. She" can see clearly without speotacles, and her hearing is almost as good as that of the average adult. „Since she was a hundred years old she has had the most exciting experiences of her life, first, she was visited by tho Archbishop of Canterbury and tho Mayor of Folkestone. Then came the wonderful news that her brother was alive. Next' chme a letter of congratulation from tho King, wishing her peace and happiness to the end of her life. Miss Roberts was born two years before her father fought in the battle of Waterloo. She was in service with one family for thirty-sis years, and during her long life she was once engaged to be married, but tho engagement was broken off. "I do not intend to get married new," she states.