Incidentally the reat-great-gran'- son was also a patient, lying in a word two storeys below the one in Whick the elf lady stays. The fol Towing account of her life was obtained from him:
Driven out of their native village by flood, the old lady and her great-great-grandson, Chang San, left for Pukow by train en route to Shanghai {0 look for tis cousin, Wen Hu-lseny, who is believed to be a policeman la this city. Ag they were boarding steamer for Shanghai, their luggage, consisting of the old lady's coat and bed cover, was stolen. The the't dealt a severe blow to them as all their small savings amounting to. few dollars and a letter bearing their relative's address were sewed in her coat, "The, two landed in Shanghai pea niles and hungry. 'Trough the grealgreat-grandson' efforts, some stale! village until flood waters wrought havoc to the place.
It is interesting to. note that the old Indy, bora in 1885, was married Just about the time that the frst foreigners settled in Shanghai all the present vast area of buildings, other than the city and its immedi suburbs, were field and mudilat. She Wwas already about 12 years of ugo when Queen Victoria came to the throne It is common enough to meet wita the new-born Infant in hospital, but rarely do patients of over 80 turn Up. As one man of 60 exclaimed wher hho saw this patient: Fancy my having to live another 50 years!"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.