Show 4 I 1 longer life y y women on the average live tour four years longer than men Is it because we are more protected have more endurance refrain fr from dissipation si or are exposed to to le less Ss anxiety and strain it has been always thought 1 that nobody worries like mother alother but perhaps to tote the bacon to the den is as on the nervous stamina as to watch over the babies with the whooping cough or to lie awake at nig night gh t until daughters beau has gone home A third of a century ago the a average man lived to be forty eight and the average woman afif tyone ty one now men live to be fifty nine and women sixty three thre wo we have added more than a doe decade ade to our lives in budgeting your lifetime c or making your will take this into consideration are we 1 maki making n g life happier and more useful as well as longer that is a question which deserves serious consideration A particular matter of rejoicing in studying mortality figures is the news that that not only are adults living longer but tile the deaths of infants one year of ago age has been baen reduced by half during durin this same period of time there is no danger that ill the c world will soon become overpopulated because fewer of us aro arc dying early birth control is keeping pace with death control from now on there are likely to be fewer babies and more old people all of this ushers in a lie new w crop of problems how are adults to keep younger low ilow I can we learn to play more to live more amicably ot earn a living through those extra years to keep ourselves t to humanity and not liabilities |