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Glenna Rose wrote:
> 
> In article <54f5fg$3bm@argentina.earthlink.net>, dtl@erd.ix.com wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> >:women had a shorter life expectancy than men.  Serious
> >:research into history will reveal
> >
> >Notice the tense; will. Apparently, Glenna hasn't even done the research yet,
> Glenna
   Having two advantages that the rest of you do not, (I think)  I lived
the rural americanna life, we didn't get indoor plumbing untill we go
electricty )to run the pump untill the mid 50's and I didn't see a
television set untill 1959.  Also my S.O. (whatever that means) is a
genolgist (studies familie trees) and two things stick out in my mind.
   Yes men out lived two or three wives but the last one out lived him
by many years usually 30.  Most of the marriages produced a child every
2nd year.  If you miss a two year there is an odds on bet that there is
a dead child there some where.  Yes women died in child birth but they
also
buried every third child before the age of 15.
   What is most amazing about life then is how happy most of the women
were most of the time.  I have read countless exerpts from letters that
they sent to one another.  Yes life was hard for them, but they truly 
loved their husbands (well most of the time any way) and most of the
husbands loved their wives.
   Infact where I grew up in rural Idaho I will say that most of the
farm wives were happier than most of the women I see posting on the
boards. 
The just didn't seem to have the chip on their sholders that modern
women have.  I guess they didn't have time to know how bad off they
were.  All I know as a little boy of 7, my fondest memories are of my
grandmother 
feeding me real hones to gosh home made bread fresh from a wood burning
oven, with real butter (was in a cow 2 days earlier) and reading to me
the complete works of W.SHAKESPEAR.   She went to a private girsl school
in Tenn. and was educated when most men weren't.  Hell she even cussed 
in Latin.  My grandmother and grandfather were married for over 60
years.

Maybe the reason why women and men to are so unhappy these days is that
they spend so much time getting into these endless fights that really
don't mean anything that they fail in the larger goal of good human
relationships.
jim

 
> BTW, if you are really interested in pursuing this, just e-mail me or at least
>  cut all the groups except your own off the header and forward the post to me.
>  Most of the groups care nothing about this whole thread.