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Show . j STATISTICS KEEP WOMEN YOUNG ! T By MAKGARKT ROIFE W ith sliver hair beneath their caps In days gone by our grandmas sat With dimming eves and palsied llmbe They'd gently rock and knit and chat. Today our grandmas seldom sit, They're all too full of life and rim. Their hair Is bobbed, nor palsy makes Thern shake a very wicked limb. New York. Sept 2 They say a woman is as oh as sho feels. If that Is true then 'hat other cyh eal statement anent the fair sex that th"- have no feelings must be veracious veraci-ous also. Recent statistics show that the average span of life for females ln this eountry has Increased 2.7 1 years since 1910. in our oitles the average' longevity of the ladles in M.77 and! the truly rural feminine life reaches an average of 57.41 years, in spite of statistical proof that 1her years are Increasing the fact remains on the face of things that they ;i re ulso giiivvmi: younger every year they gain. I A g-neration ago the average wo-man wo-man of CO was classed as an aged rone. Her Sparse white) hair'; were peeled up undei a cap her back was ibrnt and her Joints were gnarled. She, affected felt slippers and Woolen lin-i gerle and sat peering through her specs as the world swept past her DIFFERENT Nowadays the woman of 6'' sweeps' right along with the Jolly old mun-j dane sphere. She klcka up her Ftench heels as sht sweeps and Is Just a few flaps ahead of the floppiest flapper. If her hair Isn't bobbed, then It Is elaborately dressed and the sparkling eves that look out from under care-1 fully arched brows wink gayly at the advancing years until CO Is a memory and 70 a promise. With kittenish young flappers like Edna Wallace Hopper confessing te 0 9 years It's no wonder poor old Father Fath-er Time looks wan and discouraged Hymen on the other hand is beginning begin-ning to perk up and take notice. When blushing brides of 79 like Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Eastman Johnson are ej to the altar by dashing 77-year-obl bridegroom bride-groom like (bn Stlilmnn F Kn---land it means both Cupid and Hymen will have to work overtime and no longer expect to sit back and ease all active attentions to humans over 40. ULEAD oi Ml N Ijlke everything else ln which she Is given half a chance woman is ahead of man In this longevity business. Of. course, there are a few of thos- over- I 80-vear-oid youths like Henry Clews, John Wanamaker, Chauncey Depew and "I'nclc" Joe Cannon who are. still very much in the running, but statis-j tics prove that the average life Ipan I of the city man Is but fl 55 anil the country male 55.23. Still that Is an Increase of 3.75 years since 1910. so the ladles must need look to their laurels'. The old boys are sure Stepping Step-ping up a bit faster. The good old reliable statistics also 'prove that with the average spun of I mule life at 59.73 years and the female .at CO. 7, that folks all live longest out jln Bleeding, Kansas. But then, who'd iwant to? |