Ephraim Enterprise | 1915-07-24 | Page 4 | Man's Short Term of Life

MANS MAN'S SHORT TERM OF LIFE In II Comparison With Other Animals He Does Docs Not Nearly Live Out His Allotted TimeA Time A A rule which holds fairly true among ng the higher animals is that an animal lives five times as long as it requires for his muscular s system stem to reach its full strength Tl The e dog Is fully developed developed devel devel- at between at-between two and three years of age and lives fifteen years t to e horse reaches his prime not later than five and if it he escapes ov overwork and ill usage lives to be twenty five and even thirty In fact the rule seems to tobe tobe toha be ha an understatement of animal ex ex- ex of life rather than an over over- statement The one conspicuous exception Is Isman Isman isman man who seldom reaches his full muscular muscular mus muS- cular strength before he is twenty five and counts himself living himself living on borrowed time If it he passes passes passes- the age age of seventy of f If It man were as well wel cl circumstanced in inthis inthis this ibis matter as the horse dog or cat his average term of life would vary from one hundred and ten to one hundred hun hunt dred Bred and twenty-five twenty years