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Show Where People Live Long tasSBBSSBSBBBBBUiaBSEsoccai Tba pitiless logic ot percentages, aa applied to vital statistics, falls short of accounting for oni' fact In tho census cen-sus leports-tbc longevity cf residents resi-dents of the ( remaining territories ot the roiintr) Of the luiM'uii persons In the population popu-lation ot tlit average American community com-munity taking the wholo country through, there Is Jutt ono which reaches or oklcJs the age of 100. At the census computer prosaically express ex-press It. tl) '199 die beforo that time." One in 100 000 Is. therefore, tho percentage per-centage of crnteuarlans In the United Btatea, but In Arlanoa It Is tin ten times sa high at In the rest ot tho oeuntt and In New Mexico It la nl a-j i time nt high as In tbe other 'Ions of the ijnlted Htatea. Bene atos Arkansas, Minnesota, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho have no rentenarli us Home atatss Florida, Callforris. New Hampshire, Bouth Cerollr i and Vermont have a high rate o' o.ntonnr'ans three times at largo at tho average In tbo other ttatet, but much below the llguru uf Arlrona and New Mexlcei Thrru are few centenarians In New Kngland, but the number uf persona between the ages of 75 and 100 tbcro aro more than In an) other section of tho United Htntet, and the two Now rlnglaml states which aro matt noted on account of tlu'r great number of old Inhabitants aro Vermont and Main Massachusetts has a considerable consid-erable number, but tho peoplo of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts are generally of a mors progreaslto characttr than those of Ihe farming districts of Vermont and Maine, and urban life It not gencrall conducive to longevity. The large number of ccntcnartanl In tbe territories la to be merited probably to favorable cllmallo conditions condi-tions for both Arizona and Now Mcx Ico enjoy celebrity as beneficial In pulmonary ailments The question ol territorial organisation haa probabli nothln to do with u |
