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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22393, 15 October 1934, Page 12

Deafness in varying degrees affects about 2,500,000 Britons, of whom some 40,000 are totally deaf. When spring rains swell the tiny river Hamme, near the small city of Ostcrholz, in Hanover, Germany, and it floods its banks, a strjp of meadow on the south side, from two-thirds of a mile to a mile wide and three and a-half miles long, begins to rise, with all its trees, including even great oaks and birches. The whole meadow is afloat, and even in normal times it gives under the feet. Some 200 years ago tin; river is said to have loosened a small farm with house and barns, and carried it for an hour down stream so gently that the sleeping family did not waken. Mrs Elias Brown, of Dallas, United States, left her husband, in 1888, after only three weeks of married life. She was then 16. Now, after 46 years of separation, they have married again and are back at the same home they went t? after their first marriage.