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Show A ice of Purenta and Vitality of Children. ! Mr. J Korosi, director of the Uunga-' Uunga-' rian bureau of statistics, recently read a memoir before the Hungarian Academy of Sciences upon the "Influence of the ( Ago of Barents Upon the Vitality of i Children," and in which, taking "4,000 j cases as a basis, he reaches the following conclusions: Children whose father Is less than 20 years of ago have a weak constitution The issue of fathers of between 25 and 40 years are tho strongest, while the descendants de-scendants of fathers of over 40 years are weak. The healthiest children ore those whose mother has not yet reached 85 yearn. Those born of mothers of between be-tween 85 and 40 years of age are 8 per cent, weaker, and those of mothers of over 40 aro 10 per cent, weaker. The children of aged fathers and younger mothers have, as a general thing, a strong constitution; but if the parents are of the same age, the children are less robust. Revue Scientifique, |