The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 22, 1947, Page 6

PAGE SIX Life dn Western World | Has Increased’ 25 Years | During Last Century PRERISTORIC MAN Live ED, ONLY AVERAGE ODM ODODL LAL 2 | OF 18 YEARS, RE- How To Make PORT REVEALS |A Goose Out +. ¢Spvetal to Phe Ciitzeay | NEWYORK, N. Y., Nov. 22.—' Of Any Hunter ‘The'feragei length of life in the! western’ world has increased | about 25 Years in the past cen-} tury,,m@re, than, in.all prior cen- turies together since the dawn} i tion, according to the ans of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. For prehistoric man the length of life, estimated from the char- ; acteristics of fo remai: probably averaged about years, By the middle of the century, the average had risen te about 40 y and it is now | mote than 65 years. tatisti- | cians expect ,that within the next decade or two, the ave Tength of life for the population lhe United § 2s will be tended to the biblical three score | and ten. ‘ | “The lease of life for prehis- | BISMARCK, N. D.—(AP).— Guy Larson is grateful to a hunter for a goose, but he has no idea which one to thank. Larson followed his bark- ing dog into the backyard the 1 other day to find a dead Ca- nadian goose on the lawn. The goose had been shot in the breast, but apparently continued flying untilit drop- | ne MURPHYSBORO, T!l.—(AP).— tori man was pitifully small as| ped in the Larson yard. | Leones Witiamson cot el megsured by modern standards, p 1 letter carrier, claims thet statisticians comment. “This ' 77M SILI IID does not mean that there were } sonie surviving to mature life, “ U | pulsar the suns of eens Mother Cheeks Up: in infancy and childh teriifyingly high. To the¥large-.proportion of were fe xe { oy On U.N. Journalist! ed: skulls” that show of! COPENHAGEN.—(AP).—Chiet j heavy blows, death by, violence } of United Nations press section, } seefns to have been a common! former Danish journalist Paul| oceurrence at that period. Vejby Johansen, is going to make} “With the advance of early , a- 15-minute speech to his mother! civilizatior., there appears to} in Denmark, but she will not ‘be: ha’ been a very dual in-} present and will not even know | eregse in longevity, aver-| when he makes the speech. { age’ for this period k Recently Vejby Johansen was whgre around 35 yee interviewed by the Danish Broa: “The rise in standard, of liv-, casting System’s Washington coi ingjand the devélopment of sci-, respondent, Niels Grunnet, and entific knowledge early in the! the interview was broadcast in; = ningteenth century evidently , Denmark. Unfortuhately Johan- ~ hac a beneficial,effeet upon ton- | Sen’s aged mother, who has not es gevity. By the middle of the cen- | seen her son for. 12 years, did not. tury the average length of life| hear the broadcast, and now the | advanced to 40 — years, and | breadcasting studio has invited} around the end of the century, eee Mia dpe so ner : ie ee thetaverage was nearly 50 years, “°UNS Played again'for her. | ‘f The*gieat advances in the con:' a Se I trol “of disease so far this een.) LAUGH ~ AWHILE Lowe 0 tury have» brought the average Fi 1 . ' ! | Yengen‘of ite in this country to| Fowl Employment | almost, 66 years, an increase of) o ' 16 years! .in “legs than five de‘, | Charles ha just returned from eades. This'record is undoubted: | a visit to ee calintay Where he} Jy without parallel in the whole | had assisted in the performance! i Tange of human existence, and! of the farm chores. One respon-! may -never again be equalled,” | sibility of the youngster was to the: statisticians comment. gather the eggs and mark each } Fyrther progr is to be’ ex- | with the date it had been laid. { pected as present knowledge in “Well, Charles,” father inquir- | medical and sanitary. science is , ed. “how did you like the farm?” mofe fully utilized and as new “Very well, father,” the boy wedpons to fight disease are de- | Teplied, “except I didn’t care very veléped. According to the sta. | Much about being secretary to a | } } tisticians, “Within the course of | Punch of old hens. theSpext decade or two, it should | be possible to extend the aver-| WISE OLD BULL HIGHMORE, S. D.—A recent } agejlength of life for the popula- | tion of the United States to at prairie fire threatened the farm’ least 70, years.” of Elmer Folstich, on which, he ————— had two purebred bulls, one of “A- WOMAN’S LUCK | which had to be saved. Cem | Folstich decided to leave the CHICAGO.—(AP).—Any man’ old and crippled bull to die in the wh® saysia Wotnan is a terrible | flames and brought the ydung driver can “get an argument from! bull along with him. However, Wafer Patterson. He cites the | the old bull thought otherwise. cord. of his wife, Minna, , who | He found refuge in a green weed has deiveri 50,000 miles in -80! patch and the young bull died of ye: withgut an accident. haustion and _ suffocation. |He plans to spar with hi jpound partner , mil , rison, dir JAGUARS, JAUNTING AP Nwafeatures: EW ORLEANS.—Residents of New Orleans’ French Quarter, Bohemian enough nev- er to show surprise, don't-even take a second look when they see a spotted jungle animal leaping eerily. They just call Cliff Burnham and tell him his jaguar’s loose. Jaguars are a breed of" partic- | ularly nasty, panther-sized fe- lines, but Cliff is confident he can raise “Duchess” into a pet. Cliff found Duchess in Dutch , Guina while he was on duty there with the Navy. He says she is a ‘fine pet but a tease. “I take off my socks at night and two seconds later they’re on the chandelier,” Cliff explains. On her occasional airings, she slinks tigerw! straining at the end of her leash. Cliff says he and the Duche are going into show _ busine: when she reaches full growth. fifty- spect- while w ing spectator THE Man Who Took A Walk! wor wi tim h oui 100 pairs of shoe ked the equivalent of around the world during year tour of duty on a 16- y route. LAUGH AWHILE! Triumph of Education A certain heedless reporter so far forgot himself recently as to efighter with a_ hair-trigger mper. “You called me a fool!” yelled the fighter. “And for that I'm going to whale the daylights out of yor ““Yes, I said it,” replied the foolhardy reporter, “and I reit- erate it!” - “Well,” said the boxet, sud- denly, quite mollified, “that’s dif- pr | ferent. Then I'll overlook it.” Then, clouding up slightly ‘again, he added. “But don’t uhink an apology will do you any good next time!” Famed Singapore Yacht Goes To Philippines SINGAPORE. — (AP). —- The Singapore governor’s yacht, Sea- belle II, has been sold to P. Mor- tor of the PMT Ship- ping Company of Cebu, Philip- pines, for $50,000. It will be used in the Philippines inter-island trade. Built in 1928, at 2 cost of 78,000 , pounds sterling, the Seabelle was ;used by the governor of the 1 Straits Settlements and federated Malay states. Doris Duke chartered the ves- sel for her honeymoon cruise in the South Seas following her mar- riage to James Cromwell. The | British navy requisitioned the yacht at the outbreak of the war and the Seabelle II spent the war years. in navy service in Indian waters. It returned to Singapore! with the ‘liberation fleet. The royal navy paid the Singapore government the equivalent of $250,000 for its ar use. Nation's First Laity ‘Pledges Whi te House to Save Food the peace.” Under Mrs. Truman’s o s of American homemakers are the | save iagat ane rere heeren & tts part as. an American example of Mrs. Harry Numan itera, ee Prem fupervicgicated- toward helping to provide food for the under f . it ig shown at the | nouris! ete ‘tiov range ane Here the First age% sigued the wgave wheat, | bed families of Wester® Europe. hold their breath. | eak very harshly to a big dumb} 1 le t | | ' hon an linn bln bani dn dni tintin dn tn tn dn tat bn tintntn btn tintntndantnd ind tee tet tte ta tadete tate dad ty darted tatntndntndndntertndadedncndntnntndiata dade de det ta tatndastantindtn thet tintantantin| ttt tintin De titin tinted dotin dnd dedidhedp dhe ate ee ey Guardyan of Voice of Freedom Your Newspaper Serves the Community by enlightening its people!! Read and You Know!! (umination So All May See.. As Long As You Can READ the Printed Word, You Can | Have the World Before | Your Eyes! 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