s shown that while the mean duration of man's life within the
last thirty years has increased five per cent. that of woman has
increased more than eight per cent. Our own last census (tenth)
shows New Hampshire to be the State most favorable for longevity.
While one in seventy-four of its inhabitants is eighty years old,
among native white men the proportion is but one to eighty, while
among native white women, the very great preponderance of one to
fifty-eight is shown.

That the vitality of the world is at a depressed standard is
proven by the fact that more boys are born than girls, the per
cent. varying in different countries. Male infants are more often
deformed, suffer from abnormal characteristics, and more speedily
succumb to infantile diseases than female infants, so that within
a few years, notwithstanding the large proportion of male births,
the balance of life is upon the feminine side. Many children are
born to a rising people, but this biological truth is curiously
supplemented by the fact that the proportion of girls born among
such people, is always in excess of boys; while in races dying
out, the very large proportion of boys' births over those of
girls is equally noticeable.

From these hastily presented scientific facts it is manifest that
woman possesses in a higher degree than man that adaptation to
the conditions surrounding her which is everywhere accepted as
evidence of superior vitality and higher physical rank in life;
and when biology becomes more fully understood it will also be
universally acknowledged that the primal creative power, like the
first manifestation of life, is feminine.

FOOTNOTES:

[10] The Call ended as follows: "The satisfactory results of
Unrestricted Suffrage for Women in Wyoming Territory, of School
Suffrage in twelve States, of Municipal and School Suffrage in England
and Scotland, of Municipal and Parliamentary Suffrage in the Isle of
Man, with the recent triumph in Washington Territory; also the
constant agitation of the suffrage question in this country and in
England, and the demands that women are everywhere making for larger
liberties, are most encouraging signs of the times. This is the
supreme hour for all who are interested in the enfranchisement of
women to dedicate their time and money to the success of this
movement, and by