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Show and children will risk their lives. Heroes are those' who nisti to tbo rescue res-cue without considering thcmfcelves at ' all. This women and children do." OO WOMEN BRAVER THAN MEN. It has always been maintained that women were more courageous at standing physical pain than men, but I it Is a new claim that they are brav-; brav-; er, more careless of their own 6afciy, ; quicker tn act than men In an orner-i orner-i gerjey. Yet, according to Herinrt I j Longfellow, chief of the United StAteB I Volunteer Life-saving Corps, in the Designer, not only women, but chll-1 dren. are braver than men. He Is quot- J ed as saying: j "It has been my experience that women and children are more heroic than men. They are more impetuous. A man thinks of his responsibility, of those dependent on him, and of Ms own personal well-Wing. Women and children think of nothing but the human life In peril. They act on the I moment, so quickly that fear has no I chance to sway them at all. It is In tho nature of things that men are moro frequently at the post of dancer. Yet when opportunity presents itself a far larger percentage of women |