The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-07-22

U"pNfV 'hre' I~r~nn- n~t~'~" 'S ""'
ip. eighteen brtxe-n i2d and lb. "a
hundred and tw~ntv-thr~e bet ~"en do
and i25 and rwo hundred and ninety
from l1 - IFS Evidently >erNla
l. ~ eSrril.nt country and We mean
tn sI~nd a few wears there when ""
come IN early middle age. say w
Divers monks of Mount >thu- have hN'i
to he lO Probably they would have
lived longer II they had taken n sort
ot care ui themselves \ Scotchniah
lived To- h- over sp % thereby making
our lively friend, Papa PARR. look lax"
a ~two-v.ar-od \ resident Of Goa
l. sand Ia have reached his four-huh-
dr"dth wear m the enjoyment of all his
intellectual faculties Here we stand
on solid ground. and bilious carring
chnrs that sheer az this vagueness OF "
IN sald are easily refuted. Every time
he has u birthday must a gentleman
GO and max" anidavi, before IA notary
Folklore Smiles from Ind and recit.-
Ehsrr va, an old fellow IN Coz
WbpHNrdtu boz twcap '~o s,OA
lie lied u, n, Nr''ou
~ vO much conN'rc'ion.
Shgrfed Of. In the coils OF no
Never will We part with that old gen
tleman Of Goa. And now how do you
reckon your probable length Of DAYS
VI. tiSoT repeats the formula given by
DIR. RICHARDSON. Add the ages Of your
father and mother 10 those Of your two
grandfatherS and two grandmothers,
divide bv six and there Ia your chance oil
life. We NAV add that II one Of these
SIX ages seems too short. II IL not un-
reasonable 10 swell II with "a thirty or
forty. IL In fair IT, assume that the
ancestor ~ cut on didn't have his proper
chance Of life. A man built for 100 NAV
be knocked over at Il bv typhoid fever
or pneumonia. The average length Of
human life u increasing Improved
hygiene has done wonders. Why hash :
II done more Why do We all grow old
and fall This is the answer Of VI fINuI
~ translated by th. literary digester.
Tor thrce r,Ason, rir,,. wan, 90 physical c,'r
c',r Ia ,r- open ar second. poisoning nv nicrphr'
witch TUE phaEocyt-, have DOT succeeded IN d"
s'ro, ins third. tear % death ItShArd to imasine
the imporanrs Of mt, -, element u a man fears
death 70 Will earn him away
Still. there are folks who pile mp years
without taking much open-air eSer-
else. They may be exceptions To the
rule. Unfortunately all the very DID
are exceptions. The phagocytes have
more thar they can do. Most civilized
peoplo have more fear 81 microbes than
II death. They don't die from the fear
IL death. for few of them really fear
death They dislike IL. hate 1t. That
hatred makes them stick Ia life a. long
a. they can The assertion may havea
face ni paradox, hut people live 50 long
because they die.
We don't think much Of the ConClu-
sion- IT our other Frenchman, VI pE
V.RrGNY He asks Has the nan Of
to-day a chance 10 live longer than the
man II two thousand years ago Rely
lng upon ia. researches of S~PiEGtLBEk0
IT Strasburg n "a the ~ of Egyptian
mummics. he concludes that an tgvi-
,ian Of two thousand years ago Who
lived to he ~ years old was likely q" Inv"
longer than a modern EngiI-hman of
the same age II l. true that sanitary
-cirn," has dom. most {" InCr"as" the
expectation of LIT. bv decreasing NOR
talI'v among children. and conditions
are now more favorable L. longevity
VI III N.RIGNY will have ~ that tho
man IL to-day j. probably weaker than
h~ p~r,d"Nrssors low the Nile PERHAPS
VI III NARIGNY and N~pIEGkLBERG of
Strl-burg have ii prejudice against
th" English Beside. th" Egyptians
were allowed Ia keep their appendices.
That j. why Ia" IN OF ~ were
- robust. Science has it, dlsadvan-
tage- and every ~" lis favorite weak
ne--e~ our old man of Goa would have
been knocked down hy an automobile OF
"A trolley car IN these DAYS.