| Show 0 LIVE A CENTURY inmate of english infirmary enters her hundredth year happy active old lady says secret Is to just keep on living hugely enjoys sunshine and fresh air london there have been scenes of subdued revelry at crowden infirm dry recently for mrs harriet belton one of the inmates entered on her hundredth year and the nurse gave a party in her ward in honor of the event all the staff seem to feel that she has conferred fame and honor on the union by spending the long evening of her days there and a reporter who called to see her was told by the ing matron certainly you can see granny she s in no 6 ward ap but when the alne days come no ward can hold this active happy old woman and she aas found basking in the sun on the bridge corridor that joins two blocks 0 the infirmary tell you how to live to be a hun dred she replied to the first ques alon why the chief thing la just to go on living how I 1 ve done it I 1 never had to work too hard and I 1 always liked sunshine fresh air and plenty of company I 1 was a girl of five when waterloo was fought I 1 remember my mother s two brothers going off to the wars and I 1 remember how I 1 wanted to go with them the old comans womans pride seems to be her son she would talk of little but her boy a boy of about 73 of how well he was doing and of how she would like him to come and see her As tor grandchildren and great grand children I 1 don t know how many I 1 ye got she said I 1 only know that when we all gathered together at my sons last christmas twelvemonth the room was crowded with them more than I 1 could count deafness Is almost the old comans womans only defect she still reads without glasses being a constant student of her bibie and taking an interest in newspapers As the uncrowned queen of the infirmary she ja granted some little indulgences by the devoted staff I 1 Is perhaps the best test mony to her ell being that she Is still able to have strong opinions on the subject of food and if you ask her what most impressed her at the birthday party she will talk in gow ing terms of the rum punch the nurses brewed in her honor she was born in brockham near dorking in but has lived in croydon for the last 20 years |
