WOMAN OF 9-1 ON THE MODERN GIRL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 8

WOMAN OF 9-1 ON THE MODERN GIRL

“Won’t Live As Long

As Me” LIFE OF MRS. ANNE ‘E. MANNING Closely approaching tier 95th birthday, Which she will celebrate on Thursday, Mrs. Anne E. Manning, an Englishwoman who came to New Zealand from England in 1875, does not consider that the modern girl would make the same sterling pioneering stock as the girls of her own generation.

"These modern girls are certainly very different from the girls of my dav," she said in an Interview yesterday. "I do not think they will live to my age, because they do not take care of themselves. As for their dress, it is frightful—they do not put enough on.' The modern young man Mrs. Manning did not consider to be much, better "There are a good many things wrong with him,” she said, but did not become more specific. Mrs. Manning was born in Camberwell, Surrey, where her people were storekeepers. With Mr. Manning am their three children she left England on Christmas Eve, 1874, on the barque Edwin Eox for Wellington, where they arrived the following April after a voyage of 122 days. Mr. Manning was an attendant at the asylum, Mount View, Wellington, for some time, and then joined the police force. He attained the rank of sergeant aud served in Turakina, Bulls and Palmerston North, returning to Wellington in 1892. Mr. Manning died in 1005, and for the last 30 years Mrs. Manning lias lived with her daughter at 101 Constable Street, Wellington. Mrs. Manning lias been confined to her bed for the past four months, but is very bright and cheerful and takes an interest in everyday life. She is still able to read the newspapers, with the use of glasses, and it is not so many years since she gave up crochet work. She curled her hair every night till about, two years ago. Mrs. Manning attributes her long life to quiet living, and thinks that the pint of ale she has been used to every day has helped. She is keen now to reach 100, but does not think that many of the present generation will reach Iter age. "The modern girls won’t live as long as me,” she said. “They haven’t enough clothes jOu for one thing. I think it is disgusting. There were eight sons .and two daughters, of whom five sons and the daughters are still living. The late Mr. Albert Manning, who died in IJ’-J, was well known in hockey circles.