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Show M Years Devoted to Sleep Remarkably Large Part of Man's Lifetime Life-time Spent In More or Less Happy Slumber. "The days of our lives are threescore three-score years and ten," eings the Psalmist, Psalm-ist, and the man or woman who attains at-tains that age spends years of his life in doing what are regarded as common, com-mon, daily actions. The average person of 70 has spent no fewer than 23 years of his life In bed. assuming that his nightly sleep had been eight hours throughout life. Most people spend about fifteen minutes min-utes a day over the care of their teeth. The septuagenarions have thus spent almost a year In this way. How long have they spent at table? Allow hall an hour for each meal, and the answer is six years. They eat on an average one loaf of bread a day. In all their life three miles of loaves have been consumed, supposing that the latter lat-ter are put end to end. Including tea. coffee and milk, 300 barrels of liquid have been accounted for. The office man of 70 has put In Ave years in walking to the station and to t- his office. A woman of 70, even simple sim-ple in her dress, has taken seven years in clothing herself. A man and a woman who have reached the allotted span of life will have used 600 pairs of boots between them, 400 dresses! and 500 hats. London Lon-don Answers. |