Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-21
HOW TO PROLONG LIFE.
MARRIED PEOPLE LIVE LONGER
THAN UNMARRIED.
Interesting Cases of LOnEevity-FOr-
,eign Records as Well as Those
Mt Home Prove the Theory
Facts Are Amazing.

A celebrated Berlin physician has recent
ly brought to notice some startling facts
which go to prove that the married man
and the married woman live longer than
the unmarried. The facts show also that
parents live longer than childless people.
According to the New York Herald, in
spite of hard times and hard work. In spite
of hustling for money to buy shoes for the
babies, and of the loss of freedom, of va
cations and of quiet over which bachelors
wax eloquent. il is the married man who
lives. the bachelor who dies.
1t is the married woman, the mother of 4
family, who lives on after the old maid is
a disembodied spirit.
The facts are almost amazing.
Among unmarried men between the ages
of 80 and 45 the death rate is q. Among
married men of the same age it is only Is.
Between the ages of 20 and 80 the dispar-
ity Is even more remarkable. Darwin, in
f als rer fIam 81 Scot Mami" sb SnSies i goxet nf 1'oo5
married men between those ages, AZ die
annually; of every 1000 unmarried ones 14.9
die; or more than twice as many. -,o
deaths in a French parish. found that for
ty-three married men to six bachelors
en- to fourteen unmarried. :
By marrying at 30 a man adds eleven
years to his theoretical and statistical
and by marrying at 40 he adds. six years.
| Therefore, by remaining SINCE for the ten
years between 30 and 40 q mar really shut
Every minute he lives he wastes half a
minute sleeping or waking.
These are French figures. but we have,
nearer home. others as remarkable.
Ii 1894, of POS certenarians in Massachu.
sets, 1853 were women. OF these. lS4 had
been married and five probably so. Four
teen were unmarried.
There are few more pernicious pieces of
| rubbish than the idea that domestic wor-
rieS. anXietieS and cares shorten life.
1t is a lie. 1t is a hurtful and mischiev-
Gus lie.
There are many remarkable cases in the
recent records of American centenarians
| to show that the men and women who live
long are usually those who have raised
very large families.
se The ing a9 Hnfe as 6ed parwin up casp ,ne be- be-
parcieux and others. has been limited to
those whose social condition. as well as
their age, is fully stated. and who are.
comparison. Within these limits of the
facts. about 120 persons have been exam
Sunday World with the following remark-
able results:
To thirty-nine American women cente-
narians 1861 children We're born, or an aV-
erage of as children each.
To twenty-nine American men centena-
rians 225 children were born. or an average
Of ~ children each.
Twenty women centenarians were mar
ried and had children. but the exact num-
Der is not stated.
Twenty-one men centenarianS mad mad
children. number not stated.
Only one centenarian, a woman. OF the
100. was definitely stated to have been I'M
married.
The following are some of the most re-
markable cases of centenarians with very
large families. The husbands of Mrs. Hitler
and Mrs. Manuel are still living. OF the sis
men Mr.. Elmer and Mr.. King had each bu1
Mrs. Chard. Terrell, n. J.. born 17ss. diet
1897. IL children. :.
Mrs. Conrad, Manchester. Ia. living. L
children.
1773. living (?), 10 children.
Polly Clark. Anderson. Ind. born 1Iss. lv-
ing C?j, 13 children. ,-n.
Mrs. GrIlisy: New York city, born 17's
Mrs. Hitler. Ia Grange. Ind. born 1892
living. II children.
Mrs. Manuel. Cape Porpoise, Me. 1873
Mrs. Mackey, New York city. living. Il
Mrs. Layton, Mays Landing. N. J.. born
1886: living. IL children.
Mrs. Van V~redenburgh: Red HOOK, N
j.. born 1887. living ~. II children. 49,,
Mrs. Hook. Ripley. O.. born 1894, living
(3. II children.
Mrs. Larned. Pawtucket. R. l., born 1880
living (?D, 13 children.
Mrs. Roush. Pomeroy. O., born 1871. liv.
ing ~. IL children. tr75s
]. H Culver. Martinsville. Ind, born 11S9
living C?. IS children.
A. F: Elmer. Washington Mills, N. Y.
Ben Churchill. Galesburg. Ill. born 17sa
died 1891. living (0. IL children.
John Lott. Edenvilie. VT, born fHS. dice
1890. 10 children.
1859. living. II children.
James Lockwood. Saratoga, n. Y, borr
1893, living 81, II children.