WOMEN TELLING THEIR AGES.
A rather impertinent scientist has discovered that the only instances in which he finds correct dates given by women in regard to their ages is when they are under 25 or over 85. At these.periods of life, remarks this Frenchman, they may be trusted. He is a court officer, and his evidence is deduced from experience with female prisoners. Such, he asserts, invariably give their ages as 29, 39, 49, or 59, and on these premises he works out the conclusion that a woman wants to keep in the decade behind her actual age period, hut, through a lingering sense of honesty, keeps as near the line as she can.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 18, 29 July 1893, Page 3
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114WOMEN TELLING THEIR AGES. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 18, 29 July 1893, Page 3
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