Show doe do much talk induce long alft ufe I 1 in speculation in france a census of cente centen centenarians arians has just been taken and the tabulation shows persons in that country who ire are over years of age says the new york world of this number only 66 are men or less than one third an amusing comment on this ibis has been going the rounds in paris to the effect that the reason for this sur surprising surprise n g comparative para tive tire longevity of women is their proneness to talk and gossip at every conceivable opportunity constant chattering it is sa said id leads to the active circulation tion of the blood and thus renews the tissues of the body daily and renders the frame particularly strong lu in all seriousness however have hare several french physicians physician taken up this matter and they have come to the conclusion co n cl that the reason so many man y more women hare have attained a greater strength of life than men is because they have passed through less turmoil and trouble and have had a more calm and less impassioned existe existence nm one case in point is that of an old lady who died recently in the haute garrone h having a ring lived years year she is supposed ed to have been the oldest woman of modern modem times time and all her life was spent peacefully in a hamlet in this district the closing decade of her hie die she was fed on goa goats ts milk and cheese anth in the e last icia 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 the lowest class of society and extremely poor |