WRY WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 655, 2 August 1921, Page 7

WRY WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN.

In almost all civilised countries women outnumber men, and this fact has been ascribed to the higher birth rate of girl babies; yet statistics show that one hundred and live boys are born to every one hundred girls. Ac* cording to figures compiled by a statistician, the girl has a better chance than the boy of attaining maturity. .The statistician finds that from the third to the fifteenth year the morality for both sexes is the same; from the fifteenth to the nineteenth year, the critical agfi for girls, the girl s chances are slightly bettor than the boy’s; from the thirtieth to the thirty-fifth year the mortality among women is smaller than among men, and it continues smaller until the seventieth year. Then for a decade and a half the sexes once more have the same chance of survival, but above eightyfive years of ago woman again stands a much; bettor, chance than man.

To account for this ‘ difference the statistician points out that woman has greater resilience in shaking off disease than man. It is true that the physical strength of a man is greater than woman’s, but a woman’s power of ondurance is greater. One reason for this is that woman possesses a finer perception of her power of endurance than a man. and when her perception warns her of fatigue die stops. A man does not stop until Ids power is exhaur-teev. His nervous system is not as finely organised as a woman's, and, as Mosso, the Italian philosopher, has pointed out, men and women are entirely dependent upon their nerves for caution not to over-exert. While it is true that women more easily contract many diseases, particularly nervous and mental diseases, than men, they overcome them with greater ease.