THREE WONDERFUL WOMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19785, 10 May 1926, Page 7

THREE WONDERFUL WOMEN.

ALL PASS HUNDRED MARK. ’ TWO STILL ENJOYING LIFE. he story is told of three wonderful women, who, long past the allotted span of years, have found that age cannot dim nor custom stale their enjoyment of life. First, both, in point of years and as, so it is believed, London’s oldest inhabitant, comes Mrs Barber, of St, Pancras, who celebrated her 101 th birthday in February. Born in Norfolk, Mrs Barber has lived in London 40 years. Her husband was a solicitor. She is without relatives now; she has_ outlived them all. Her simple faith is best expressed in her own words to-day: "Remember this—being bright and cheerful has always kept mo going.” Next is Mrs Jane Anne Jewell, who entered her 100th year a few weeks ago at Emsworth, near Portsmouth. Perhaps her greatest pride is that her great grandfather named the street in which she lives. He was the builder of naval barges in Nelson’s day. During the Great War Mrs Jewell sent cheering letters to all the Emsworth men serving with the colours. She wrote nine every evening. And still she reads in the newspapers each day what the world is doing. For this she needs glasses; but for knitting she can do without them. The last of the three old ladies, Mrs Anno Rutherford Cole, of Eastbourne, has been gathered to her ancestors at the age of 101. Her father was William Scott Raeburn, of Rox’ourghshue, a first cousin of Sir Waller Scott. Her husband was Commissioner of Customs at Karachi, and she remembered travelling across the desert from Alexandria to Suez before the days of the Suez Canal.