LIFE AT 106.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 19, 8 September 1911, Page 6

LIFE AT 106.

A LONDON CENTENARIAN. Mrs Sarah lirown, aged 106 on July 19, sat propped up by pillows in her bed in the infirm ward of the I'addington Workhouse the other day, none the worse for the festivities of the previous diiy. She had a number of visitors, as well as gracious letters from their Majesties the King and Queen, and the good mation gave a tea party in her honor. "Here's someone come to see you, granny," the nurse shouted into her ear—she is very deaf. The centenarian made some inarticulate sound in reply. "She likes to talk," the nurse said ; but her visitor was afraid to talk to her. It was necessary to shout to mako her hear, and to sliout at the little withered bundle seemed like an act of violence to a baby. She is almost blind and very deal, but islie has her thoughts and her memories. She is a Londoner born and bred, and with the exception of a lew years when she was in domestic service at Reading she has never been out of London and has never been to sea. She was left a widow with four young children 80 years ago and kept herself and brought them up. They are all dead. Her youngest boy, with whom she lived, died at the age of 77, and then she entered the workhouse. She takes beef tea and bread and butter and sometimes a little fish or minced meat, and on red-letter days she has an egg. Egg days are her happy days. She had one on her birthday.