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Show Bulgaria Ranks Third for Men and Women Who Live More Than 100 Years Recent Investigations reveal that there are 158 persons in Bulgaria who are more than oneliundred years old, according to a correspondent In the New York Times. This figure. In proportion pro-portion to the total population, gives Bulgaria third place for the world record, rec-ord, Lithuania being first and Portugal Portu-gal second. Of these IT'S persons, only four have lived their lives unmarried; So are men and 73 are women; among them are 143 Bulgarians, four Pomaks. three Turks, three Gypsies, two Jews, one Armenian, one Kutzovl.ich and one Rumanian. Of the women, eleven have had five children, four had eight, eight have had nine, three had ten. ,nne has had eleven, one has had twelve, four have had thirteen, one has had fourteen, one has had fifteen and two have had sixteen. Of these men and women, thirty-seven thirty-seven were parents before they reached the age of sixty, but twenty-eight twenty-eight became parents between the ages ot sixty and sixty-live, forty-one between the ages of sixty five and seventy, sev-enty, twenty-one between seventy and seventy-live, nine between seventy-five and eighty, while two had children wiies over eighty. Longevity appears to be hereditary, tor the parents and tfraudparents of these old people mostly lived longer than the average. Thirty-three of them are teetotalers, while 125 drink moderately, but only 48 smoke, a curious cu-rious fact in a country which grows tobacco. They are all even-tempered, cheerful folk. Sixty-nine of them have spent their lives as shepherds or shepherdesses, forty-eight have worked upon the land, eighteen were servants, three were blacksmiths, two dressmakers, two gardeners and one nontlescript. Only fifteen spent their lives as housewives. |