GIRL’S UNUSUAL LIFE

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 9

GIRL’S UNUSUAL LIFE

AT SEA SINCE A BABY. FATHER CAPTAIN OF SHIP. An unusual visitor recently to Lon* don was seven-year-old Pauline Falve* sen, who, when she reached England, set foot on dry land, for the first time since she was 15 months old. Pauline's mother is English, a native of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and her father is Norwegian. Pauline herself would pass for an English girl or a Norwegian, for she speak a both languages perfectly. She also knows a smattering of Japanese. She went to London on an eight months' visit after having lived nearly all her life on the steamer Aelbryn, of which her father is captain. Pauline ha s already been twice round the world. Her parents have accomplished that feat eight times. The last occasion on which Mrs. Falvesen left the steamer was when she came from New York to England for the birth of her daughter. Then she left Pauline with a nurse while sh e hurried back to the ship. She took the French steamer Desirade, sailing for Indo-China, and between Colombo and Singapore caught up with her husband's steamer. A boat was let down for her, and from that day she has not . left the Aelbryn. Pauline, who has a mass of auburn curls, was taken on board when she was 15 months old. She lives the life of the sailors and on the Aelbryn has been found hosing the upper deck. Her only friend besides those on board is her dog, Sandy. She has never been to school, but is not backward, her mother giving her lessons twice a day.