Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-17
WoMAN'S GRAND FUTURE. /

WcMAN's GRAND FUTURE.
Throughout tho United states They Have
Longer Lives Than Men.
Prof. Stanford e. Chaille, dean Of
the medical faculty of Tulane Uni
versity, says that in most parts OF the
United States women have better ex.
pectation OF life than men; they live
longer and survive with more tenacity
and success the vicissitndes that tend
to shorten existence.
The Picnyal,se has heretofore dis
c.issed as u possibility, in view of the
constantly increasing surplus Of women
over the numbers of men, that state
OF society analogous to that attributed
to the Amazons Of antiquity might
again occur. Here a learned physi0lo-
gist presents formidable array of
figures to show that in the struggle for
life the softer sex starts out with de-
eided advantages of immunity from
the assaults of death as compared with
the males; that the women have better
chances for development 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 con-
duce to their physical and moral SUI
periority. Let us quote the words of
our scientist:
The expectation of life for females
Is in every locality better than for
males, but the difference in favor of
females varies greatly, and to an ex-
tent inexplicable by me. The superb
GRITTY of white females over males is
greatest, and very great in New Or
leans and Charleston; it is a little in
Boston, Brooklyn and New York, and
it is very slight and least in New Jer-
sey and Massachusetts. The fourteen
localities take, in reference to this SUI
periority of females over males, the
following order: New Orleans, Charles
ton, Cincinnati, San Francisco, St.
Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, District
of Columbia, Baltimore, New York,
Brooklyn, Boston, Massachusetts, New
Jersey.
Another singular fact is that while
there is slight superiority in Massa-
chusetts 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
other locality.
Why is all this possible? Our au-
thor replies:
Females are, in less number, guilty
of vicious and hurtful excuses; they
are more confined in the house and
engaged in less hazardous occupations,
and thereby they are less exposed to
communicable diseases, to inclemen-
cies OF weather and to dangerous acct
dents. But these obvious causes,
while explaining in part, fail to do so
in whole. For at no time is the supe-
riority of females as great as under five
years of age, and such females are no
more exposed than the males to the
above causes. For such reasons, vital
statisticians have claimed that nature
endowed the female with a stronger
vitality, with greater vital endurance,
and if there be better explanation I do
not know it.
We are to believe, then, that while
women are, in obedience to the subtle
forces of evolution, growing physically
more perfect (and this would seem also
to include advancement toward moral
perfection) the men are declining in all
vital characteristics. The women are
growing constantly more beautiful and
more numerous, while the men are in
a corresponding ratio to retire from
the world they have for so many ages
dominated and controlled. By these
mysterious and potential agencies the
men are dying, fading out of existence,
and their last despairing gaze is to be
fixed on a race of goddesses, ''divinely
tall and most divinely fair" crowding
upon the stage where the tremendous
tragedy of '*Man and Woman has
been so long enacted, but now to be
superseded by the inexpressibly PEI
culiar and unknowable drama, 'Wom-
an"
1t is to this ending that all the musty
figures and dry bones of science pre-
sented above inevitably tend. It is the
contamination of an implacable law
which is destiny, declaring the sur
vival of the fittest. 1t portends .
grand future for women, but it is much
to be doubted if Eve can be happy in
Paradise without Adam.-N O. Plea.
yss,ae.
ANCIENT POTTERY.
Valuable Archaeological Discovery Re
contlv Made in ENGLAND.
An interesting discovery has been