WINTERGREEN CLUB
In Boston a woman’s club was founded by Harriet Beecher Stowe and lia Ward Howe . and none is eligible for membership under the age of 75. A Sydney, woman who was once at one of the club dinners tells of the brilliant conversation of the gathering. At that time the president was the oldest member, aged 95, and one of the vieepresidents had taken her degree as Doctor of Philosophy after her 80th. birthday. The activity, of these urn usual people is due largely to their good health, but that good health is no doubt due to their keen and varied interests, which have never allowed their brains, and consequently their bodies, to become ‘ ‘ aged. ” Mrs. M. Goodfellow, who is 77 years of age, is the first woman to join the newly-formed Port Melbourne Flying Club. '‘Aged” is fast becoming a, meaningless word in prose and daily lifo and useful only to poets. A woman of 99 living in Warwickshire recently surprised her friends by learning to use a typewriter. She did it to keep pace with her correspondence. ‘‘People will make such a fuss of birthdays aft-, ‘er 90,” she said, ‘‘that I was really obliged to take to typing.” i .
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Shannon News, 11 September 1928, Page 4
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204WINTERGREEN CLUB Shannon News, 11 September 1928, Page 4
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