Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — Life—The Tenacity of Women. [ARTICLE]

Life—The Tenacity of Women.

It appears from the gathered statistics of the world th-at women have greater tenacity of life than men. Despite the intellectual and physical strength of the' latter, the softer sex endures longest, and will bear pain to which a strong man succumbs. Zymotic diseases are more fatal to males, and more male children die than female. Deverga asserts that the proportion dying suddenly is about 100 women to 780 men; 1,080 men in the United States committed suicide to 285 women. Intemperance, 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. Females in cities are more prone to consumption than in the country. All old countries, not disturbed by emigration, have a majority of females in the population. In royal families statistics show more daughters than sons. The Hebrew women are especially longlived; the colored man exceptionally short-lived. The married state is favorable to prolongation of life among women. Dr. Hough remarks that there are from 2 to 6 per cent, more males born than females, yet there is more than 6 per cent, excess of females in the living population. Prom which statistics we conclude that all women who can possibly obtain one of these rapidly departing men ought to marry, and that, as men are likely to become so veiy scarce, they cannot be sufficiently prized by the other sex. —Modem Age ‘ ■ I like to read about Moses best, in the Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look at his life so, and think what’ll come of it after ke’fc dead and gone. A good, solid bit o’ work lasts; if it’s only laying a floor down, somebody’s the better for it’s being done well, besides the man as does it. —George Eliot. “It looks as if another short-hair frenzy was going to strike the ladies, ” says a New York letter-writer in the Chicago Tribune. “A good many in their teenß now consider it the tiling to cut off their hair and wear it curled dose to their scalps, and yesterday I saw a row of bonnets in a milliner’s window, each decorated with a little ruff of frizzed hair sewed under their rims at the back.”