Show lifes span shortened by white house cares Is the life span of our presidents gr owing growing less our office mathematician says that it Is after lie had made some lightning calculations so let us take a look at tits his figures the average age of our first ten presidents dente at the time of their death averaged a little more than seventy seven years then ten presidents president taken from the center of the list be 1 ginning with harrison and ending with hayes give us as an average of slightly over sixty seven years now we take the last ten deceased rulers and we find that their average arn amounts to around sixty four years in III this list our demon mathematician did not take into consideration any of the presidents that met with violent death our figure wizard says that hp he compared the ages of ten business men of the same period as our far first st presidents and found that their aver years while ten men of recent years years while dpn men A f recent years averaged around seventy years these men were all selected at random and he be failed to tell us their names these figures may mean little or much but at any rate they are most interesting if it is a fact that being the head of our nation la is too much strain then the practice of the present president lu in selecting as tits his aids the learned men of the coun arys universities Is certainly worth watching they cannot do his wor but they can lift a big load from his shoulders Patti pathfinder finder magazine |