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Show u WHY THERE ARE MORE WOMEN The fact that in almost all civilised countries women outnumber men has been ascribed to the higher birth-rate of girl babies; yet statistics show-that show-that 10fi boys are born In every LOO girls According to figures compiled by a European statistician, the girl has a better chance than the boy of attaining maturity. He finds that from the third to the fifteenth vear the mortality ol both sexes is the same, trom the fifteenth to the nineteenth year, the critical age for glrK the girl's chances are tdightly better than the boy s. from the thirtieth year to the thirty-fifth year the mortality among women is smaller than among men, and it continues con-tinues smaller until the seventieth year. Then for a decade and a half the sexes once more have the same chance of survival, but above eighty-rive eighty-rive years of age woman again stands a much better chance than man. To account for this difference tne statistician points out that woman has greater resilience in shaking off disease than man. It is true that U10 physical strength of man Is greater than woman's, but a woman's power ot endurance Is more robust One reason for this is that woman pus es a finr perception of her power pow-er of endurance tbau a man, and when her perception wains her of fatigue she stops. A man does not stop until his power Is exhausted. His nervous system Is not as finely organized or-ganized as a woman's, and as Mosso. the Italian physiologist, has pointed out, men and women are entirely dependent de-pendent upon their nerves for caution cau-tion net to overexert. While it is trite that women more easily contract j menv diseases, particularly nervous and mental diseases, than men, they overcome them with greater ease. London Tit-Bits, |