ONE HUNDRED AND THREE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 6, 26 May 1914, Page 8

ONE HUNDRED AND THREE.

DEATH OF AX INTERESTING LAD¥. There recently died at St. Helicr, J«;rscy, at the ripe age of a hundred and threw, a lady who was one of nineteen children, and iwho brought up a big family of her own. One of her grandsons, Mr. C. E. Major, some long time Jf.P. for Hawera, is well-known, to most Xew Zealand folk. One of her 80113, Mr. C. E. Major's father, has long lived with his son in Auckland, and is a very sprightly and cheerful youth of seventylive or so. The deceased lady never suffered from wandering faculties, so far as her mental outlook was concerned. Right up till the last, she took a keen interest in everything and everybody. She never lost touch with the world, and in the stores of a memory that covered nearly a century of conscious life she found any number of good things to be glad, about, right up till the last. She was born at Le Boeuf, and came of an o!d v French stock of distinction: a fact she always found much satisfaction in. On that little 1 island that stands select and apart, though begirt at short distance by the central whirl of things, she spoilt her days and ' watched the panorama of a swiftly expanding world unfolded. As a tiny child she heard the great rumor of Waterloo, as an elderly woman sho followed the campaign in the Crimea, as an active woman of ripe age sho took a daily interest in the last Boer War. These facts will serve as indications of the span of her life. She lived to a great a.gp, and all ha brothers and sisters dieij old. She bore many children, and they kept up the family tradition of longevity. They worked hard, they lived joyously, they drank good wine, they suffered pain without whimpering. If you want to live to a great age, that's the way to do it—that, with the aid of high resolution, strong character, and the grace of God. |