WINTERGREEN CLUB.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1928, Page 11

WINTERGREEN CLUB.

In Boston a woman’s clnb was founded by Harriet Beeclier Stowe and Julia Ward Howe and none is eligible for membership under the age of 75. A Sydney women who was once at one of the club dinners tells of the brilliant conversation of the gathering. At that time the president was the oldest member, aged 95, and one of the vice-presidents had taken her degreo as Doctor of Philosophy after her 80th birthday. Tire activity of these unusual people is due largely to their good health, but that good health is no doubt due to their keen and varied interests, which have never allowed their brains, and consequently their bodies to become “aged.” Mrs M. Good fellow, who is 77 years of age. is the first woman to join the newly-formed Port Melbourne Flying Club". “Aged” is fast becoming a meaningless word in prose and daily life and useful only, to poets. A woman of 99 living in Warwickshire recently surprised her friends by learning to usd a typewriter. She did it to keep pace with her correspondence. “People will make such a fuss or birthdays afer 90,” she said, that 1 was really obliged to take to typing. .