72 Years in Bed
: — STORY OF FORBIDDEN MARRIAGE.
A woman, aged ninety-four, who died at .Scarborough a few weeks ago, spent tiie last seventy-two years of her life in bed. In all that time she had been ill only for two days that preceded her death, her appetite had been good, and she possesed a complexion which a young girl might envy. (The complaint from wihicjh this woman suffered was disappointed love. When she was twenty-one years of age she contracted an engagement of which her father did not approve. 'He forbade it. She thereupon went to bed and left it only one occasion—to travel from Cambridge to Scarborough. She always displayed great interest in the affairs of the outer world. She was absorbed in the varying fortunes of tii® war, and" read the newspapers from beginning to end.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 March 1917, Page 4
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13972 Years in Bed Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 March 1917, Page 4
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