Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — Women Live Longer than Men. [ARTICLE]

Women Live Longer than Men.

Despite the fragility with which their sex is credited, the number of British female centenarians greatly exceeds that of the men, 225 women out of every 1,000,000 reaching the century mark, while only eight men of the same number round out 100 years.