Show 9 LIVING LONG I 1 HALF IrI 11 1 1 ALF of us live to be 60 and nearly a fourth of us reach 75 this cheerful state of affairs is announced by dr louis I 1 dublin chief statistician of the metropolitan life insurance company the average person at 50 says dr dublin may now hope to live to the age of 71 or as we put it the average length of life remaining to each one of the survivors at age 50 is 21 more years even at 70 there is more than i nc ni years of expectation and so on in a diminishing degree to the end the average baby born in america in 1901 could be expected to live 49 years 3 months the average baby born in 1423 1923 should reach 65 thanks to great strides by medical science especially in saing sa ing t the lives of children during babyhood and early childhood As a matter of fact children born in 1923 may for all we know live to an average age of or more startling discoveries in the way of prolonging human life may be made before many more years by the use of radium or artificially stimulating the endocrine glands of the body thyroid adrenals ad etc the great strides that have been made in the last 20 years in prolonging the average duration of human life have been mostly by reducing infantile death rate science is turning its attention to similar service for mature people much is possible and considerable is probable some time when you have an idle hour get out the family bible or whatever yon you keep the records in and fiaui e up tip abe average age at which people in your family die it will te tench teich ich you what years are apt to be most critical 1 1 in your h luethe ic taue v hen lien health must be e eardest XO root L |