SEEING LIFE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 50

SEEING LIFE.

WOMAN OF 102. FIRST RIDE IN TRAIN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 2. Youth will have its fling. At 102 years of age, Airs Elizabeth Humphries, of Robertson, New South Wales, has det aided to see a bit of life. A few days; aro she had her first ride in a train, am} quite enjoyed the sensation. She travelled three miles, and was sq “ bucked up ” about the adventure, after having alighted from the train without assistance, that she wants another taste of this mode of transport. She three bachelor sons, slips of youths, said to be 72, 75, and 77 years of age ret speetivcly, but she scorned their proffered assistance, and walked unaided to the railway station near her home. It is said that she has never once travelled more than a few miles from her home, but now she has set out to see the world and ridden in a train, there is no knowing where the spirit of wanderlust will take her. The dear old lady, whose upright figure, judging from her photo? graph, does not suggest her age, comes of stout Irish stock. Aligrating to Australia many years ago from the distressful land of her birth, she travelled from Sydney by coach to Robertson, where she hag lived ever since. The old folk seem to be going gay. Not long ago a Sydney woman of more than 90 celebrated her birthday by going up in an aeroplane for a joy ride, and circling in the upper blue over her home on the North Shore of Sydney.