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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 124, 16 May 1908, Page 3

THE S.NAtiS OF LIKE FOK EVERY CHILD. The question, " What is lite';" lms been asked many times, hut it lms seldom been answered ill the manner chosen by a 'Parisian medical man in the French Journal of Health. He lias defined life in terms of disease, and his analysis proceeds thus:— First year; Infantile complaints and vaccination. Second year: Teething, croup, infantile cholera, and convulsions. Third year: Diphtheria, whooping cough, and bronchitis. Fourth year: Scark'tiua and meningitis. Fifth year: Measles. ]iy now, lie says, half the children are" dead. The others live on as fol-

lows: Seventh year: Mumps. Tenth year: Typhoid. Sixteenth year: Chlorosis anil spinal irritation. Eighteenth year: Neurasthenia. Twentieth year: Ceplialagia, alcoholism. and vertigo. Twenty-fifth year: llarriage (included among the diseases). Twenty-sixth year: Insomnia (probably the. first baby). Thirtieth year: Dyspepsia and nervous asthenia. Thirty-fifth ye.ir: Pneumonia. Forty-fifth year: Lumbago and failing sight. Fifty-fifth year: Rheumatism an.l baldness. Sixtieth year: Amnesia, loss of teeth, hardening of arteries. Sixty-fifth year: Apoplexy. Seventieth year: Amblyopia, deafness, general debility, loss of tone in the di"estive organs, goul. rheumatism. Seventy-filth year: Death.

OX ACTIVE SERVICE. (ieneral French's adventures in the South African war were hut if his most amusing occurred one lIHJI-Ilin- when a.war correspondent with 1 a i'aflier hipiidianded maimer came ridi\i« into cuiiip. lie saw a soldier outside one of the (puts, so dismounted. " Is this l-'reneh's eiunpV'' lie n«kt'd. -Yes." replied the soldier. "Then hold my lior<e while t pfo in scareh of liim."

Ye-, sir," said the soldier. r.;nl immediately obeyed. T!h' war mrrespnndeni >| rolled olf in r<'li i'i' KreiieJi.. iiud imkhj ('Mini' a -I ;l ff <>(ljcel\ •• Wlm-iv i-; Krew-li v"' I«» asked.

" lie tt;ts Ih'lV a Itllilll rll I ilif'l," ■ lie ilMici'!'. '• TIIPIV 111- is—lml wlllli tllf mlscliiof is lie iloinp: lioldiiiß tlmt lmric!" Tlic war i-orrwpomU-nt boat life way .*Wly Waik. ami for poi-haps tW; linn 1 in liis life ate liumlilc pic.