UNUSUAL TOLERANCE
CENTENARIAN'S VIEWS
One of the oldest women in England, Mrs. Matterface, aged 100 years, of Chelsea, states "The ; Australian Worker," granted a gently informative interview on her hundredth birthday, in which intellect and tolerance with the new order were predominant features. She said:— "I have a hundred years of life, experience, and memories behind me, and to my mind people have changed very little. "George the Fourth was on the Throne when I was a little girl, but from that time human nature has altered very little, if at all. Perhaps the people of this generation are a little less individualistic, but this, I think, is caused by mass education and entertainment. , "Experience or example do not seem to teach very much. The same old sins and the same old follies of my girlhood are being perpetrated today. "Take war, for instance.. After each one, people have said: 'Never again!' but another war has come along, accompanied by the same flag-wagging, and they have been lured* just as their parents and grandparents before them were lured, into the carnage. "To me, human beings are all Peter Pans —who never grow up—just dear, lovable, foolish children. , "It is foolish to talk of the 'modern girl.' She is no more modern or foolish than those who have gone before Anyhow, when you have lived to be 100 you realise how ridiculous this talk about the 'modern girl' really is." .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 18
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239UNUSUAL TOLERANCE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 18
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