Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-01
THE SUPERIOR SEX.
WOMAN . EXPECTATION OF .IFE
GREATER THAN THAT OF MEN.

GREATER THAN THAT OF MEN.
Interesting Report from Recognized
/ Authority-A Formidable Array of Fig
ures-Why Women Are Longer Lived
Than Men-The Future.
Professor Stanford E. Challe, NJ. D.. dean
of the medical faculty of Tulane university,
a recognized authority in matters of SAM
tary philosophy and hygiene, has recently
published an interesting report on the life
and death rates of New Orleans compared
with those of other cities. Attention here is
directed to some deductions which the pro-
feSsor derives from his statistics, and if we
may trust in this case to the somewhat ques-
tionable statement that Figures never he,"
we are brought face to face with some re-
markable and strikingly suggestive facts.
Our professors statistics, which are, of
course, perfectly square and honorable as
far as he is concerned, are derived partly
from the records of the Louisiana board of
health, which is charged with the duty of
recording all births and deaths IN this city,
and partly from the mortuary tables of the
tenth United States census, and they are
doubtless as reliable Is such collated figures
usually are. From them it is discovered
that in most parts Of the United States
women have better expectation of life
than men; they live longer and survive
with more tenacity and success the vicissi-
tudes that tend to shorten existence But
it is III New Or cans where these advantages
are enjoyed TO the highest degree over any
other place.
THE SOFTER SEX SUPERIOR
Here learned Psychologist presents for.
midable array Of figures to show that in the
struggle for life the softer sex starts out with
decided advantages of Immunity from the
assaults of death as compared with the males;
that the women have better chances for de
veloplnent in all that makes up sane, sound
and vigorous life. In word, the men are
ON the down grade of health and morals,
while the women possess all that conduce TO
their physical and moral superiority. Let
us quote the words of our scientist:
1.-The expectation of life Tor females is, in
every locality, better than of males, but the
difference in favor of females varies greatly,
and to an extent inexpllcable by me. The
superiority of white females over males is
greatest, and very great, In New Orleans and
Charleston; it is d little III Boston, brooklyn
and New York, and it is very slight and least
III New Jersey and Massachusetts,. The four
teen localities take, III reference TO this SUI
peiiority of females over males, the follow
ing order: New Orleans, Charleston, Cincin-
natl, San Francisco, St Louis, Chicago,
Philadelphia, District of Columbia, Bal1i-
more, New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey.
''The like superiority and difference exists
in reference to colored females and males
The localities reported, only four. take the
following order: New Orleans, again first
and the difference is very great, though not
as great as between white females and males;
next Baltimore, then the District OF Column
bin, and last Charleston. And it is very sin
gular that in Charleston, where the superb
GRITTY of the white female is very great, the
superiority of the colored female over the
colored male Is very little
Another singular fact is that, while there
is slight superiority IN Massachusetts of the
females over the males, yet the males have
the superiority from two to ten years of age,
and that this male superiority is found in no
ether locality. A third singular fact, and
one encouraging specially to New Orleans, il
that the expectation OF life OF its white
females is superior 70 that of the white
females of Charleston, Brooklyn, New York
and Boston; but the expectation Of life Of the
white males of New Orleans is less than IN
said places"
TIE SEVERAL REASONS wEY.
Why is al this pcssiblei Our author re-
plies:
Females are, in less number, guilty Of |
vicious and hurtful exoesses; they are more
confined II the house and engaged In less /
hazardous occupations, ard thereby they are
less exposed To communicable diseases, TO |
inelemeacies OF weather and 70 dangerous /
accidents But these obvious causes, while !
explaining in part, fail 10 do 50 in whole. /
For at no time is the superiority of females
az great as under years Of age, and such /
females are no more exposed than males 10 1
the above causes For such reasons vital
statist.cians have claimed that nature En-
dowed the female with stronger vitality,
with greater vital endurance, and IL there 4
be better explanation do not know il"
We are TO believe. then, that while women /
are, in obedience TO subtle forces Ct GROIN /
ton, growing physically more perfect, and 1
this would seem also 10 include adv anceuept 1
toward moral perfection, TIE men are Ge- I
Ginning in al vital characteristics The /
women are growing constantly more beauti- 4
q corresponding ratio 20 retire from the !
world they have for 50 many ages doInt- /
mated and controlled By tbess mysterious
and potential agencies the nen are dying, /
fading out Of existence, and tceir last co /
spairing gaze Is 70 be fixed On race Of god
desses, ''divinely tai and most dtvfneiy /
fair crowdlng upon the stage where tie /
TREMENDOUS tragedy of Man and woman
- e. -.
By the iIaexrrezsibly peculiar and
drama, 'W oman"
Il Is 70 this ending that all the musty
figures and dry bones Of science presented
above Inevitably tend i, Is tie consan1na-
hon Of a. iu1placable law which IS destiny,
declaring tae survival Of the as.es1 II por-
keris = grand future FOR wcnxu, bz. il Is
uaaca 70 be 6oabssd IL Eve can 20 happy In
paradise withou. Adam--New ORLEANS Plea
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