There is not a great number of people living in this country who were born in the same year as Queen Victoria, They who entered the world so long ago as 1819 and are sull with us hate and hearty are undoubtedly in the running to become centenarians. A notable example of this very small band is Mrs, Elizabeth Fuller, of N". 44, Ryder Street, Surrey Hills, Sydney. 'This veneriblo' old lady was born in England and came to Australi with her husband before she had attained her eighteenth year, long previous to the great gold rush. She has, therefore, already reached the full age attained by Wellington, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Bismarck, tand Pennyeon, men who found time tot a ish a vast amount of enduring work, which establishes the fact that it is not among themest uneventful orleest suffering lives We must look for examples of longevity. If that were not s0, we should not now be writing of Mrs. Fuller's career, To work strenuously for many years building up a competency, to succeed in that effort, and then to have the proceeds of your industry swept away by the miserable process of litigation is disheutening to the last degree. That is what happened to Mrs. Fuller. A weaker mind than hers would have become unbalanced by such a disaster. But that is not all. Itis proverbial that troubles come not as single spies but in whole battalions, and so it was in this case. Enjoying excellent health, scarce kn wing what serious illness was during the Brst 71 years of her life, Mrs, Fuller now met with an accident. Losing her fuoting while ase.ding the stairs, she sustained s fractured arm and collar-bone—a serious calamity to befall anybody, but specially " woman 71 years of age.
Mrs. Faller thus writes of her experiences consequent upon her accident:
became an inmate of Sydney Hospital, and after being in sume degree patched up there was discharged within tio months as cured. My worst troubles, however, were only just beginning. The fall mast have wrenched my back and injured my kidneys for a dull continuous pain set in in that region which allowed me no rest. by day oF night, producing urinary difficulties of a most' distressing, nature, and an obstinate constipation. visited' the leading. hospitals as.an out. door patient, and Was at one time under
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