WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN.

GREATER POWER OF ENDURANCE. Woman is all-important for race survival, and she is far superior to man «s to endurance. Girl-babies in the first year of their existence have more power to resist the diseases of babyhood, and have thirty per cent, more chance of survival than boys.

Many women live in tiny rooms where hardly a breath of fresh air enters, an! yet more men than women die of consumption. A woman journeys to and from business wit : i thin stockings and lownecked blouse, or goes to the theatru i:i a filmy evening dress, bare chest, arms and shoulders, and seldom comes to any haim. Whereas if man were to attire himself in this way he would be down with pneumonia the next day. Woman can endure physical pain for months, or even years, and stick it longer than any man could. She Is used to pain, and puts up with it without a murmur.

She is less affected by the shock of surgical operations, can stand the strain of nursing the sick better, and will watch by the bedside of a sufferer day and night without giving in. What is the reason ? It is this: Primitive woman raised her famflv and did her housework in spite of cold and rain, while the men-folk crouched by the fire and only crept out for food, and to this day woman works alwut in o.ratughts, turns out rooms, does tho washing, cooks the dinner, packs tha children off to school, sees that hubby's meal is ready, and then sits down lo her dinner last of all. This treatment of long endurance carried out throughout the ages has enabled her to resist disease.