Photograph by Gilbert Grosvenor 



ninE sons have: been contributed to the world's population BY MR. AND 



MRS. MORRISON, OP ST. ANN'S, CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA 



"The persons whose parents both died before sixty lived, on the average, 32.8 years (the 

 Hyde Genealogy). Those whose parents both lived beyond eighty averaged 52.7 years; and 

 where the parents died at the intermediate age periods the duration of life was intermediate." 



AN EVEN DOZEN SITS AROUND THE FAMILY BOARD AT EACH MEAL IN TITE HOME OP 



T. ALBERT PIELD 



Longevity is an index of constitution. Long-lived persons have left more descendants in pro- 

 portion to their numbers than the others, and therefore, on the average, had larger families. 



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