“WONDER GIRL”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23326, 19 October 1937, Page 10

“WONDER GIRL”

LUCKY TO BE ALIVE BRAVE RESCUES IN FIRE , V Lucky to be alive, a 14-year-old girl whose pluck is the admiration of relatives and friends is slowly but surely winning an amazing fight to recover her health and strength. She is Miriam Levy, who, while a patient in the Manchester Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital, has earned the title of “Wonder Girl." When fire broke out in her home, Miriam, who had just left school and was seeking work, became a mass of flames, and was seriously burned in an effort to save her two sisters. In spite of the agony that she suffered, she kept up courage in an amazing manner, and on the way to hospital said to her,mother: “ Don’t worry, mammy, it may be a long job, but I’ll try my best to live for your sake.” That was nearly eight months ago, Now at long last Miriam’s prophecy has come true. On several occasions she lay between life and death, as the result of serious burns on her chest, arms and neck, but her determination to win through never wavered. Doctors, nurses, relatives and friends who visited Miriam marvelled at her courage, and gave her the name of “Wonder Girl." Now for the first time after eight months. Miriam, whose chance-of recovery, according to a medical authority, was 100 to 1 against, is able to walk a little. In a few weeks, when stronger, Miriam will return home, and will receive a rousing welcome from fo'mer playmates and neighbours. The “ Wonder Girl ” has been the “live wire” of the ward in which she * has lain.

*n spite of her suffering, she sang to other juvenile patients and cracked jokes when visited by 'her school tei'-bei’s and playmates. “ I am proud of my daughter, because it is entirely throuah her own remarkable courage that she is living to-day," Mi’s Levy told an interviewer. "Whenever I visit her she always tells me not to worry, because she is deterto recover completely and return home again.”