> > From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/04/09 Wed PM 08:43:22 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Pulitzer > > I'm not sure what you mean by "more and more present", but really the > reason this is such a tragedy is that is so unusual for a relatively > young healthy woman to die prematurely. From the 1840's, when good > record keeping became a general to about 1910 statistics show that young > women were very vulnerable to typhus, cholera, child birth, small pox it > was truly horrible, popular songs reflected just that, "Listen to the > Mocking Bird", which was adopted by the 3 Stooges, actually find the > words and read them. . There was a culture of death or rather dealing > with death throughout the Victorian Age. If you go to any relatively > old cemetery you should count the headstones of you woman who died in > their late teens to early thirties. The numbers are sometimes > astounding. We should mourn the loss of this young woman, but be very > thankful it happens so much less frequently today.
> > http://www.prestongannaway.com/main.php If you look in other parts of the world, you may find that the rates are as bad as they ever were. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
