AFTER 20 YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1927, Page 7

AFTER 20 YEARS.

| WOMAN'S STRANGE RECOVERY. LONDON, September 30. The "Evening News" describes the marvellous recovery of a Mrs. Farmer. She had been bedridden for 20 years, and had relapsed into a motionless, speechless trance for a year, when suddenly she sat up and faintly asked for water. Relatives gathered at the bedside believing that the end was approaching, and exchanged farewells. The woman relapsed into a trance, and the family, who were watching all night, were staptled in the early hours of the morning to see her jump up and demand food. She ate heartily, and enjoyed Yorkshire pudding. She made a rapid recovery, which her' lmsband attributed to champagne, of which 42 bottles had been administered to her in the past six months. The woman does not remember incidents since 1923, when she' first went into a trance. "I seemed to lose all sense of time, and felt as if I was living in a peculiar sphere, removed from the world," she says.