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Show "HOWLONC HAVE I TO LIVE?" It is not every ono who asks himself this question, because strangely enough, it is tho belief of most persona per-sona that their lives will bo exceptionally excep-tionally lengthy. However, life assurance as-surance companies are aware of the credulous weaknesses of those whc:e lives they assure, and havo therefore compiled numerous tables of expectancy ex-pectancy of lifo for their own guidance, guid-ance, which are carefully referred to before a policy is granted. The following is one of theso well-authenticated tables in ubo among London Lon-don assurance companies, showing tho average length of life at various ages. In the first column we have tho present ugea of persons of average health, and in the second column we ore enabled lo peep, as it were, behind tho scenes of an aeBiiranoo office, and gather from their table the number of years they will give us to live. ThiB table has been the rosult of oaroful calculation, aud seldom proves misleading. Of course sudden and premature deaths, as well as lives unusually extended, occasionally occur, but this is a table of the average expectancy of lile of an ordinary or-dinary manor woman : Moro yean Ago. lo lira, 1 30 10 61 20 41 30 34 40 28 I0 , 21 00 14 70 0 . 80 4 Our readers will easily gather from the above tabulated statement the number of yearB to whioh their lives, according to the law ot averages, may reasonably be expected to extend. Harper's Bazar. |