Show COMPARATIVE LONGEYITY Some of the Kcasons Why Women Live temper Than Men V The San Francisco Record says of the relative longevity of men and women the following Interesting resources con cerning the comparative longevity of men and women in Europe have recently been made by the bureau of statistics of Vienna Iroin these it appears that about a third more women than men reach advanced age Women oftener lead quiet regular lives They have few bad habits are less exposed to strong passion and excitement It appears from the gathered statistics of the world says the Modern Age that women have a greater tenacity of life than men Nature worships the female in all its varieties Among insects i the male perishes at a relative early period In plants the semiate blossoms die earliest and artf produced in the weaker limbs Female quadrupeds have more endurance endur-ance than males In the human race despite the intellectual and physical strength of man the woman endures longest and will bear pain to which the strongest man succumbs Zymotic diseases dis-eases are more fatal to males and more male children die than females Deverga asserts that the proportion dying suddenly sud-denly is about 100 women to 780 men i 1080 men in the United States in 1870 committed suicide to 285 women Intemperance Intem-perance apoplexy gout hydrocephalus affections of the heart or liver scrofula paralysis are far more fatal to males than females Pulmonary consumption on the other hand is more deadly to the latter which argues that we ought to give the girls of our families all the outdoor exercise that they need Females in cities are more prone to consumption than in the country All old countries not disturbed by emigration emi-gration have a majority of females in the population In royal families the statistics show more daughters than sons The Hebrew woman is exceptionally longlived while the colored man is exceptionally ex-ceptionally short lived Dr Hough remarks re-marks that there are from two to six percent per-cent more males born than females yet there is more than six per cent excess of females in the living population The rush and worry of the average Business man in this country is apt to make him prematurely old unless un-less he takes judicious recreation The females are to a great extent exempt from this overstraining about business cares which may in a degree account for their superior vitality There can be no doubt but that in the last sentence of the above there lies the kernel of the true difference in the United States between the longevity I men and women in this country More ban one close observer noticed that last summer and fall many men died from the overwrought pressure brought to bear upon them who promised under more favorable circumstances to live for many i years |