The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-20
WOMAN'S GRAND FUTURE.
Throughout the United States They Have
 Longer Lives Than Men.


 Throughout the United States They Hay,
 Longer Lives Than Men.
 Prof. Stanford E. Chaille, dean O 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 vicissitudes that tend to shorten existence.
 The Picayune has heretofore dis cussed as possibility, in view of the constantly increasing surplus of womer over the numbers of men, that state of society analogous to that attributed to the Amazons of antiquity might again occur. Here learned physiolo. gist presents a formidable array oi figures to show that in the struggle for life the softer sex starts out with de cided advantages of inlmunity from the assaults of death as compared with the males; that the women have better chances for development in all that
 
 life. In a 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 su, 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 superi- ority of white females over males is greatest, and very great in New Or leans and Charleston; it is 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 su- 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 a 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 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- cies of weather and to dangerous acci- dents. But these obvious causes, while explaining in part-feil to do so in whole. For at no time IS Une 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 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 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 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 pe- culiar and unknowable drama, "Wom- an."
 It is to this ending that all the musty figures and dry bones of science pre- sented above inevitably tend. It is the consummation of an implacable law which is destiny, declaring the sur- vival of the fttest. It portends a grand future for women. but it is much to be doubted if Eve can be happy in Paradise without Adam.-M. O. Pica- 1J7L7le