A WOMAN'S STRENGTH

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 11 July 1884, Page 3

A WOMAN'S STRENGTH

It appears fiom tho gathered statistics of the world that woman have a greater tenacity of life than meu. Mature worships, the female in all its varieties. Among insects the male perishes at a relatively early period. In plants the seminate blossoms die earliest, ■ and are produced in the maker limbs. Female quadiupeds have inure endurance than males. In the human lace, despite the intellectual and physical staglk of the mau, , the women endure longest, and will bear pain to which the strong man succumbs. Zymotic diseases are more f ital to males, and more malo children dio (ban females. Devcrga asserts that the proportion dying suddenly is about 100 women to 780 men ; 1,080 men in the United States in 1870 committed suicide, to 285 women, Intemperance, apoplexy, gout, hydrocephalus, affections of the heart or liver, scrofula, paralysis, are far more fatal to males than females. Pulmonary consumption, on the other hand, is more deadly to tho latter, t'ema'cs

in cities arc more prone to consumption than , in the country. All old countries, not Jfofoturbed by emigration, have a majority of in the population, In royal fanilies Ihe statistics show more daughters than sons. The Hebrew womau is exceptionally long-lived, the colored man is exceptionally short-dived. The matricd state is favorable to prolongation of life among women. Dr Hough remark* that there arc from two to six per cent more males born than females, yet there is more tlnn six pjr cent excess of females in the living populations, From which statistics wo conclude that all women who can possibly obtain one of these rapidly departing men ought to marry, and that as men are likely to become so very scarce, they cannot bo sufficiently prized by .tho ■"' other sex,—" Modern Age,"