Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-10-11
woMAN's GRAND FUTURE
Throughout the rnit~d states They Have
Longer Lives Than Men.


rhrouxheut the United states They Have
Longer Lives Than Men
Prof. Stanford r Chaille. dean Of
,he medical faculty OF Tulane Uni
versity. says that in most parts Of tho
United States women have better ex-
rartatiou OF life than men; they live
longer and survive with more tcnscity
and success the vicissitudes that tcud
~ shorten existence
The Ecaysss has hcre,ofors d.
cusscd as a possibility. in view Of tho
constantly increasing surplus of women
over the numbers Of men. that a state
Of society analogous To that attributed
~ tn, Amazous OF antiquity might
again occur Here y learned phy-iolo-
gist presents formidable array Of
figures Va show that in the struggle for
life the softer sex starts out with de-
ciosd advantages of immunity front
the assaults Of death ~ compared with
the males; that the women have better
chances .cr development IN all that
makes up sane. sound and vigorous
life. In a word. the men are ON tho
down grade Of health and niorals.
while the women Possess all that cou-
duce to their physical aud moral SUI
periority. Let us quote the words of
our scientist:
The expectation Of life sor females
is in every locality better than fOy.
males. but the difference in favor of
females varies greatly. aud to an ex-
tent incxplicablc by me- The superb
ority Of Whit. females over males is
greatest. and very great in New Or
leans and Charleston: IL IL little in
Boston. Brooklyn and New York. aud
it i very slight and least IN New Jcr-
scy and Massachusetts The fourteen
localities take, in reference To this SUI
periOriiy of females over males. the
following order. New Orleans. Charles
ton. Cincinnati. San Francisco. ~.
L,.ui~. Chicago. Philadelpiiis. District
Of Columbia. Baltimore. New York.
Brooklyn. Boston. Massachusetts,. New
Jersey.
thcrt l. a siigh; superiority in Massa-
chusctts ~ the females over the males.
vet 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 shis possible' Our au-
thor replies:
Females are. in less number. guilty
Of vicious and hurtful excesses; they
are more confined in the house and
engaged in less hazardous occupations.
and thereby they are less exposed TO
communicable diseases. to inclemen-
ei-s OF weather and to dangerous acct
dents. But these obvious causes.
while explaining in part, fail to do 20
in whole. For at no time il the supc-
rIority of females as great as under five
years OF age. and such females are no
moro 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 " there ne better explanation do
not know IL
We are To believe. then. that while
women are. in obedience tn tho subtle
forces of evolution. growing physically
more perfect (and this would seem also
to include advancement toward moral
pcrfection)the men are declining in all
vital characteristics. The women arc
growing constantly more beautiful and
more numerous, while the men are in
u spOnding ratio to retire from
the world they have for 50 MANY ages
dominated and controlled. BY these
mysterious and potential agencies tho
men are dying. fading out of existence.
and their last despairing gaze is to no
fixed on a race of goddesscs. ''divinely
tall and most divinely fair crowding
upon the stage where the trcm andous
tragedy of MAN and Woman" has
been 50 long enacted. but now Ia he
superseded by the incxpressibly Pc
culiar and unknowable drama. "Wom-
an.
IL Is to this ending that all the musty
figures and dry bones of science pre-
sented above inevitably tend. 1t is the
consummation of an implacabIe law
which l. destiny, declaring the sur
vival of the iittest. 1t portends a
grand future for women, but it is much
to be doubted il Eve can be happy in
Paradise without Adam.-N. U. Pica-
ytre.