HOW TO LIVE LONG
DAME BARNETT’S ADVICE Dame Henrietta Barnett, who has been described as one of the most remarkable women in Great Britain, celebrates her 85th birthday this week. For some time she has been in poor health, never having completely recovered from an illness, due . mainly to overwork, about 18 months ago. Her abundant health and energy up to the time of her breakdown, however, she attributes to five rules, namely : Rise at 5.30 a.m. every day. Work very hard. Read newspapers very carefully every day. Eat very little. Say your prayers very often. With her husband, the late Canon S. A. Barnett, Dame Henrietta founded Toynbee Hall, which Was the world’s university mission settle- | ment. She has spent a great deal of ( her time working among people in ; the East End. They also founded the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and the Hampstead Garden Suburb, where Dame Henrietta has lived for many years. Dame Henrietta has been a prolific writer, and, when 70, took up painting, and has had several of her pictures hung in the Royal Academy. She was created Dame of the British Empire in 1924.
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Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1741, 22 June 1936, Page 3
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