16 FEBRUARY 1907, Page 16

LONGEVITY.

170 THE EDITOR Or THE .SFECTATOR..]

Sixt,—My maternal grandmother, born in 1779, took in or about 1830 a house in Croydon, which remained in the occupation of her family until 1884. In these fifty-four years no one died in the house under the age of eighty, and there were only three deaths in it. My own mother died last autumn aged ninety-six. She walked about her village for qver an hour within six weeks of her death, and on the last morning of her life sent a birthday gift to a cousin of a hundred and one. One servant was over forty-five years in ray grandmother's service, and this person's sister was fifty- eight years with my mother.—I am, Sir, &c., E. K. P.