Daily Independent

WOMEN BRAVER THAN MEN

It has always been maintained that women were more courageous at standing physical pain than men but it is a new claim that they are braver more careless of their own safety quicker to act than men in an emergency. Yet according to Herbert Longfellow, chief of the United States Volunteer Life Saving corps, in the Designer not only women but children are braver than men. He is quoted as saying:

"It has been my experience that women and children are more heroic than men. They are more impetuous. A man thinks of his responsibility of those dependent on him and as his own personal well being. Women and children think of nothing but the human life in peril. They act on the moment quickly that fear has no chance to away them at all. It is in the nature of things that men are more frequently at the post of danger. Yet when opportunity presents itself a far larger percentage of women and children will risk their lives. Heroes are not those who deliberate upon their chances. Heroes are those who rush to the rescue without considering themselves at all. This women and children do."