Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1889 — Life—The Tenacity of Women. [ARTICLE]

Life—The Tenacity of Women.

It appears from the gathered statis* tics of the world that women have greater tenacity of life than men. Definite the intellectual and physical strength of the letter, the softer sex endures longest, and will bear pain to whioh a utriiun ninn sueoumbs. Zymotic diseases *.• c moie fatal to males, and mote m..!i« children die than female. Devorga n!< erU thut the proportion dying -mild- 1. v in about 10t) woman to 7h(> UiO.i; i. e u men in the United State:* •mi m'-'ed suicide to 2 "> women, luteiup *rat iijxiplew, gout, hydro* cephalttK, mlee.iiwiis of the heart or liver, hereto In, paralysis, rre lar more fatal to malt.* than females. Pulmonary on, rvtoi'tioTi, on the other hand, is mor. .i it-11 yto the latter. h eiioi! a in dues ere more prone to con: ’i;n r :iou timn in the country. All o d eivmt. ie;i, not d*.-turbed by emigration, liau; a majority of females in the population. In royal famili jh statistics show more daughters than sons. The Hebrew women are especially longlived; the oolored 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 bora than females, yet there is more than 6 per cent, excess of females in the living population. From which statistics we conclude that all women who can possibly obtain ene of these rapidly departing men ought to marry, and that, as men are likely to become so very scarce, they cannot be sufficiently prized by the other hot.—Modem Age.