GRANNY GORTON'S BIRTHDAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 187, 9 August 1895, Page 4

GRANNY GORTON'S BIRTHDAY.

Saturday, January 2lst, was a great day in Central Village, in the [ Htate of Connecticut, ia America On that day Mrs fjqp^tb,ah Gorton ', was 100 ye.ars ojld . and formally re- . ceived. her, friends. pf .whom hun- , dreas w*ere present* She wore her best black silk, gown, with a rose in the bodice. The venerable lady f was seated in a comfortable arm- • chair on a platform in the best ', rooir of her house. Then the train of callers filed through, each aud all shaking hands with her. " Granny J QortOL," aB she is called, is a trim . little body and very nimble on her \ feet. 'Ihere was never anything ailed, Bhe says, and, except that her [ eyesight isn't quite so good as it ! nsed to be, she is as active as any woman of 50. Why has Granny Gorton lived so long ? Why is she so active now ? \ bhe lets out the secret herself when : she says, "There was never anything ailed me.', 1 hat's it, and all of it. People who live 100 years are not . bo very rare. The deaths of 45 ! such were reported last year in . England- 22 men and 23 women. ! Yet compared to the multitudes , who die, these are nothing—nothing. Can we not keep things from 1 ailing us, and so live as long as Mrs ; Gorton ? "i'es, if we will take the trouble to do it I Men and women 100 years old, still vigorous and ( clear-headed, should be a sight so common as not to be remarked, and will be yet in the future. Why not ,so now . " Ask yourself the question," aa the boatmen cay down on , Deal beach. Here's how it is : A woman's ! tale. She says she fell ill when a girl of about 15. She lost her appe--1 tite, had pains in the sides and ! chest*, frequent headaches, and was ' often obliged to liie down on the ' couch and rest. All this didnt , promise long life, did it ? No ;it waß a bad start. ' Well, sbe got worse instead of better. 1 She was often eick, vomited her food, and 1 spitting np a sonr fluid. For five yeurs she weut on thia way , 1 his brings ub * toLOtober, 1891. the wbb theii in seivice as parlour-maid at Leamington, Hastings, -Warwickshire. Here she Buffered from constant Bioknese, retching, at.d heartburn. '1 be obest pains were so bad ac to bend her two donble. JNo , position that she oould take relieved her. Her stomaoh was so tender aud Boro that . eveiy thing sbe ate pained and distiesßed her. For months and months ' Bho only took liqnid 100d — milk and 1 beaten eggß, and so on. bhe got weaker aud weaker every day, i so she cay c. Oi course, bow else could , it be P A doctor at Hugby told ber sbe bad " nloeration of the chest," whiob she ' didn't ut vi). What ia " nloei atiou of the chest".? He gave her medioines and advice, but fhe grew no better on that account. This yonug lady was now about 29 yeara old, with a poor outlook for over being ; mnoh older, Bho didn't expect it, nor did her friends, 'lhen another, doctor, beiug consulted, said " ulceration of the chest," like bis medical brother at ttu^by. Both wrong. " A leer sis mouths' medical treatment ' Bbc says, " X gave np my situation and retnn.ea to my home at Bnxton "-jamas, Noi folk. This was in Jnne, 1882 Then I was taken so bad 1 hod to tuke to my bed. My mother thought l t was iv v deoline. 1 ' Now, the word " decline" means consumption, us we all know : a disease oommon in England atid iucnrable everywhere. Jhousanda of bright girls aud young men " decline" into then* giaves eveiy year in thiß popular lbluno, bud enongb it is to Bee. Well, ac tbis point her good and wise mother interlered.in bei daughter's case. i Bbc gave tbe doctors the go-by aud sent to Norwioh for somo Louies of Mother Seed's Curative fey rup. lv two weeks thu young p.. lieu, b gan to feel better, uud in three mouths ebe got a uew eitnation aud wont. "Siu c then, fifteen yearß ago," sbe say***, " 1 bavo kept, in better health than ever before iv my life, thanks to Beirut's Syru*. Youi s trnly, (signed), (Mis) Bahah Eleanor Bakek, 8, King's Street, Church Koad, 1 otter-hum, near Loudou, September 30th, 18.2'" A dozou words moro aud we're done. Mra Bilker's uilrneut was iuuige***tiou aud dyspepsia, nothing else, "aud quite enough. The "ulceration" waß iv- ' flamniatiou of tbe inner coating ot the Htomuob, a symptom of the disease. We wish her a long and hippy life, aud merely add tbat it all her stx could avoid or cure this one trouble mo.t of tbem might live to bo as old us Cranny Gorton.