Young Old Women

It is an acknowledged fact that a gTeat age isattained by women oí tener than by men. The true reason, probably, lies in the quieter and more regular life usually led by women, whose nervous systems and brains are, consequently, not worn out so quickly, as a rule, as those of men, says Pearson"s Weekly. One of the most famous female centenarians was the countess of Desmond, who lived to be one hundred and forty-flve, and died in the reign of James I. from the effects of an accident. This wonderful woman found herself, at the age of one hundred, so lively and so strong as to be able to ake part in a dance, and when she vas one hundred and forty she raveled all the way from Bristol to ,onilon - no trifling journey in those ays - in order to attend personally to ome business aiïairs. Lady Desmond Is, however, quite hrown In the shade by a French womn, Maria Prkra, u-ho died at St. Coumbe in June, 1S:;S - it is said - at the vonderful age of one hundred and fiftyig-lit. Toward the end of her life she ived exclusively on goafs milk and heese. Although her body was so hranken that she weighed only fortyix pounds, she retained all her mental aculties to the last. It is an cxtraordinary. but incontestable fact. that some women, at the ag-e when most people die, undergo a sort of natural process of rcjuvenation - the hair and teeth grow again, the vrinklos disappear from the skin and sight and hearing reacquire their forïner sharpness. A Marquise de Miraboau is an examle of this rare and remarkable phenomenon. She died at the age of eighty-six, but a few yeurs before her death she became in appearance quite roung again. The same thing happened to a nun o the name of Marguerite Verdur, who at tlie agc of sixty-two, lost her wrindes, regained her sig-ht and grew several new teeth. When she died, ten years later, her apperrance was almost ;hat of a young girl.