Show does much talk induce long eket in speculations in france a census of centenarians centen arians has just ban taken and the tabulation shows persons in that country who are over years of age says the nev york world of this number only ag are mn or less than one third an amusing comment on this has been going the rounds in paris to the effect that the reason for this surprising comparative para tive longevity of women is their ness to talk and gossip at every conceivable opportunity constant chattering it is saad leads to the active circulation of the blood and thus renews the tissues of the body daily and renders the frame particularly strong in all seriousness however have several french physicians taken up this matter and they have come to alie conclusion that the reason so many more attained a greater strength of life than men is because they have passed through less turmoil and trouble and leave had a more calm and less impassioned existence one case in point is that of an old lady who died recently in the haute garrone having lived years she is supposed to have been the oldest woman of modem times and all her life was spent peacefully in a hamlet in this district alie closing decade of her life site was fed on goats milk and cheese in alie last few years of her existence her body became attenuated to an extraordinary degree and her skin came to resemble parchment the french centenarians centen arians are as a rule of alie lowest class of society and extremely poor |