Show Why Women Live Longer In the fortyninth registration report of Massachusetts 1890 the compiler presents the statistics of 203 persons who were reported a having died during dur-ing the ten years 188190 at the age of 100 and over Of this number 153 ee or 754 per cent were females By the state census of 1885 the number of females living over 80 years of age was nearly double that of males The greater exposure of men to accidents to weather agencies to the constant strain of business life to the anxiety of providing for the family all tend to shorten the life or men The deaths by accident among men are more than threefold greater than among women and men commit suicide In about a threefold ratio as compared with women wo-men New York Commercial Advertiser Adver-tiser n |