There not a great number of people living in thi country who wera bora in the same year as Queen Victor They who entered the world 5" long 1819) and are still with ry are in the running to become A notable example of this small band is Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, 44 Ryder Street, Surrey Hill's, Sydney. This venerable old lady was born in England and came to Australia with her husband before she had attained her eighteenth year, long previous to the great vold rash.' She has, therefore, already reached the full age attained by Wellington, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Bis-marek, and Tennyson, men who found time to accomplish a vast amount of enduring work. which establishes the fact that it ts not among the most uneventful or least suffering lives we must look for examples of longevity. If that were not so, we should not now be writing of Mrs. Yuller's career. To work strenuously for ay years building up a competency, to succeed in that effort, and then to the proceeds of your industry swept away the miserable process of litigation i mind than hers would have become unbalanced by such a disaster. But that is not all. It is proverbial that troubles come not as single spies but in whole battalions, and so it was in this case. Enjoying excellent health, scarce knowing what serious illness was during the first TI years of her life, Mrs. Fuller now met with an aceil her footing while ascent the stairs, she sustained fractured. and collar-bone—a serious calamity to befall anybody, but specially woman 71 years of Fuller thus writes of her experiences consequent upon her accident T became an inmate of the Sydney Hosspital, and after being in some degree patched up there was discharged within two months as cured. My worst. troubles, however, were only just beginning. The fall must have wrenched my back and injured my kidneys, for dull continuous pain set min that region which allowed me no rest by day or night, producing urinary difficulties of a most distressing nature, and an obstinate constipation. 1 visited the leading hospitals as an out-Foot patient, and was at one time under treatment at my own hone by a Indy doctor. None of the plasters, liniments, lations, or other a.cdicines they gave me proved of any service. As time' passed the pain la my back increased so much that the agony Tendured was intolerable, felt as if T could have welcomed end my sufferings. Ta this Tremained two years. Mrs, W, Johnson, of Serey, bought me three Soothing Plastars, a box Mother Scivel's Operating Pills, and a bottle of Mother S Curative' Syrup. She did this on the advice of a friend who said he was sure they would relieve my sufferings if given a fair trial, Happily for me the accuracy of his belief was soon tablished, for the plasters, used in conjunction with the Syrup and Pills, at once redueed the backache to "tolerable degree, and in two months had quite mastered it, Twas ones more able to eat, sleep, and get about in comfort. After so long an illness, and at my advanced age, a quick restora-on to perfect health and strength was to be expected, but I persevered with tite three Seigel remedies for six months, and was rewarded by a daily improvement in my condition, At the end of that time felt as well as a person of my years could hope to be, and have remained well from that day to this."
The loss of Mrs, Fuller's well-earned savings has been in some degree repaired by the grant of an Old Age Pension by the beneficent State of New South Wales—a won extended only to those who have resided in the State continuously for at ast 25 years, and in itself a sure. warrant of the respectability and honour of the recipient. A good thing, and one to be devoutly thankful for, without doubt, but Jess wonderful than that other relief which Mrs. Fuller has so well described and acknowledged.
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