Show Centen centenarian arians although approximately 1000 persons in the united states claim to have reach reached edthe the age of one hundred years most of them either cither ore are mistaken or have deliberately falsified in their eagerness to pain gain public notice says T swann harding an authority on lon science in the north american review it Is significant lie he points out that such advanced ages occur am anang ng peasant classes usually where records are unavailable mr air harding shows that although a few cases of persons who have passed the century mark have been bee authenticated many more suc such claims particularly ages as one ili ahlm dred and twenty years and upward have been disproved by marriage ollit military nry and other records only 00 per cent of americans lie he shows reach eighty years of age |