The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24

Longer in Marriage Than in Cell
bacy.
From the New York Times.
The duration of our life may, in gen
eral way be heightened or disminished by
ourselves, according as we contribute to
It's maintenance by healthful methods of
living. Independently of these, however.
various inner and outer inyuences are of
great effect upon the duration of life, such
as marriage, heredity, occupation relig-
ion, race, and climate This is manifest
TO every one in regard 10 certain influ
ences, as, for instance, climate; but 1t il
not so manifest as relates to marriage.
And yet the influence or marriage upon
the duration of life is highly favorable.
Darwin said in his "Orlgin of Man:
According to an enormous mass of sta
tistics which were taken in the course of
the year 1888 1t was then ascertained that
the unmarried men in France between the
ages of twenty and thirty die in much
greater numbers than the married. OF the
unmarried 113 die yearly out of every
thousand and of the married only 6.5. In
Scotland this was shown as early as 1903.
There, for instance, out of every thous-
and unmarried men between the ages of
20 and 80 years 14.9 died yearly, and of the
married only 70, or less than half
A similar condition is observed in nearly
all other lands. According to Hufeland in
his "Makrobiotik," out of every hundred
persons, II bachelors and n married men
reach the age of 20 years. and % unmar-
rled and Is married women.
According to DR. j. l.. Casper, the num-
Der of persons who reach the period of
life between 70 and 100 years is as follows:
Unmarried men, four; married men, TWEEN
ty; unmarried women, fifteen; married wo-
men, thirty-tWo.
The French statistician Deparcieux who
has recorded not less than 1850 deaths
from the Parish OF St. Sulpice, gives the
following as the result of his researches:
1T appears that man lives longer in
marriage than in celibacy. The number
of bachelors who die after attaining the
age of twenty years is nearly twice s
great as of married men and wdowers.
Also, ii is found that, of those who sur
vive the age Of ninety years, the proper
tion of unmarried women is still more
striking; the numbers of those who reach
the age of ninety years are as l12 to214,
respectively"
Noirot found that in Dion married men
lived on an average seven, and married
women FIVE, years longer than the unmar-
ried. According to the same author, the
unfavorable influence of celibacy made it.
sell LelL lIlOSl DClNCGll tilt slS6S VI hWSlliS
five and thirty-five years. From then till
the fifty-hfth year it diminished, and at
the latter age disappeared almost entire
ly.
According to the French statistician De-
way, the man who marries at thirty there
by adds eleven years to his life He who
marries at thirty-fVe adds eight and he
who weds at forty, six years to his life.
After the fftieth year this gain ceases.
The expression adds" is incorrect in SO
far as it may give rise to the idea that
every marriage win bring this addition to
life. While this addition to life is to
certain extent true, 1T is also true that mar
riage may have an injurious effect, as, for
instance, when 1t takes place too early or
when, especially in the families, of work
men, the increased care of the mainten-
ance of a family has the result OF con-
slant over-exertion and overwork Ac-
cording to a comparison by Farr, four
times as many married men under the
age of twenty and twice as many married
women die as of the unmarried of the
same age.
While 1t is true that the above recited