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THE NEXT GENERATION 



Other tables illustrate the same point. Mr. Starbuck gath- 

 ered material and made out charts both for men and for women. 

 These show the same general facts which Dr. Gulick brought 

 out. They also show that in general girls made decisions at 

 an earlier age than boys did. This is because young girls are 

 usually more mature than boys of. the same age. 



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Number? 5 8 12 37 32 51 54 66 49 57 44 43 45 17 11 12 13 3 

 AGE OF JOINING THE CHURCH 



There are also tables of choices of another sort. Dr. Gulick 

 studied the report on crime and pauperism, given in the 

 Eleventh Census of the United States. From this report 

 he made another set of statistical tables. 



These show that the average age of those who were in 

 prison at the time the reports were made out was twenty- 

 three years. Now this is so much older than the period of 

 conversion given in the previous tables, that we wonder if 



