13 JULY 1934, Page 6

This week's enduring passion :—Slightly over a hundred years ago

Zaro Agha, the Turk who died the other day aged 157, proposed to Amfe Amet Mustapha. The marriage was forbidden by her parents, who enlisted i her in a Turkish merchant's harem. Last week she was informed of Zaro Agha's death, whereupon she had a stroke and died.

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