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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 299, 17 December 1902, Page 6

AS OLD AS t 4 _ , . I "; ; QIJEBN JVICPORIA.There is not a great number of people living in this country- who were born in the same year Victoria. They. who. entered the world so long ago as 1819, and are; s&U with <iis>hale.and hearty, are undoubtedly in the running to become centenarians. A notable example of this verji small band is Mrs Elizabeth Fuller, of No. 44, Eyder-street, Surry Hills, Sydney A This £enerablc • old lady was* born in England -and .came to Australia with her husband before she had attained her eighteenth year, long previous to the great gold rush* She has, therefore, already reached the full / age attained, by Wellington/ Goethe; Victor Hugo, Bismarck, and Tennyson, men who found time to accomplish a vast amount of enduring- work, which establishes the fact that it is not among the most uneventful or least suffering lives we must look for examples of longevity. If that were not so, we should not now be writing,of Mrs Fuller's career. To work strenuously for many years building up a competency, to succeed in that effort, and then to have the proceeds of your industry swept away by ■ the miserable process of 1 litigation heartening to the last degree. That is what happened to Mrs Fuller. A weaker mind,.than hers wouldJiave become u-ntklahced by disaster. But that is not all. It is proverbial that troubles come not as single spies put in whole battalions., and so it was in this case: 'Enjoying excellent health, scarce knowing what serious illness was during the first 71 years of her life,. Mrs Fuller? now met with an accident. her footing while ascending the. stairs, she sustained a fractured arm and collar-bone—a serious calamity to befall anybody, but specially a woman 71 years of age. Mrs Fuller thus writes oi her ex-, periences consequent upon her .accident- "I'became an inmate of the Sydney Hospital, and after being, m some degree patched up there was. discharged within two months as. cured. My worst troubles, however. Were only just beginning. The fall must have wrenched my back and injured my kidneys, for a dull continuous pain set in in that region, which allowed me no rest, bjrday •or night, producing urinary difficulties of a most distressing nature.'and an obstinate constipation. I visited tne leading hospitals as an outdoor patient, and was at one time under, treatment at my own home by a lady doctor. None of the plasters, liniments, lotions, or other medicines they gave me proved of any service. As time passed the pain in my backincreased so much that agony I endured was intolerable, and I re it as if I could have welcomed death to end my sufferings. f In. this wretched condition I remained two years. Then my daughter, Mrs W. Johnson, oi Arden-street, vVaverley# bought me three of Mother Seigei's Soothing Plasters, a box of Mother Seigel's Operating Pills, and a bottle of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. She did this on the advice of a friend J who said he was sure they would ■■. relieve my sufferings if given a fair trial. Happily for me the accuracy of his belief was soon established, for the plasters, used in conjunction with the Syrup and Pills, at once reduced the. backache to a tolerable degree, and in two months had quite mastered it. I was once more abh' to "eat, sleep, and get about in-com-fort. After so "long an illness, and: at'my advanced ape, a quick restoration 'to perfect health and strength | was not to be expected, but 1 persevered with the three Seigel remedies for six months, and was rewardedby a daily improvement in my condition. At the end of that time I feltas well r.s a person of my years could hope to be, and I have remained well from that day to this." The loss of Mrs Fuller's well-earn-ed savings has been in some degree repaired by the grant of an Old Age Pension by the beneficent State of New South Wales—a boon extended, only to those who have resided in the State continuously for at least 25 years, and in itself a sure warrant of the respectability and honour of the recipient. A good thing, and one to be devoutly thankul. for, without doubt, but less wonderful than that other relief which Mrs' Fuller has so well described and acknowledged.

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