MRS PARNELL AT EIGHTY.
Mrs Stewart Parnell, 'the mother of the Irish leader, has just, at the age of eighty, given an American artist a sitting for her portrait. The vitality of the old lady is quite marvellous. Her face is as bright and rosy as that of any girl ; she reads the newspapers without the aid of glasses, and takes the keenest interest in all the questions of the day. "I am hard to kill," she said, cheerily, while she was beiug sketched. "Ihave the Stewart bones, and they are hard and do not break." The only infirmity from which Mrs Parnell suffers is a lameness of hei left side, which prevents her from walking long distances. As she pubs it, •« Now my limbs are feeble, but my will Jβ strong."
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9433, 3 June 1896, Page 4
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132MRS PARNELL AT EIGHTY. Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9433, 3 June 1896, Page 4
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