The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28
,ked no comment whatever.

voked no comment whatever.
This Indifference to English public opin-
ion shows more conclusively than any
thing else that we are socially grown up.
as it were. and have become Independent.
If they like us, well and good; and that
they do the scores Of young Englishmen
who have found bonny brides in America
will testify. If they do not give us their
liking or approval it is immaterial TO us.
We can live and be happy without eithero
A provincial Englishwoman who, fun of
her old-time insular prejudices, had come
TO London for the season, and was dining
one day, to her great eradication, with
number of titled guests at the house of
one of the grandees of her country, began
after dinner, when the ladies We're alone
in the drawing-room, to inveigh against
American women. This was a favorite
topic by-the-way, with British matrons of
her class.
Pardon me-" said pretty Lady NJ, to
whom she had addressed her remarks. al
though the others had been listening with
amused attention, but 1 am sure you do
not know that we are all Americans here,
except the Duchess Qheir hostess).
1t is greatly to the credit of our trans
planted country women, who fill the high
est positions abroad with inherent grace
and ease, that they do not seek or desire
to become Anglicized, being content, as
they may well be, to retain the natural
charm which insured their success.
II should lose half my popularity if
became English" said the charming
Duchess OF -, and her friends all re-
marked on her first homecoming how to-
tally unspoiled and unaffected she was
For some curious reason, In London Just
now it is deemed far less provincial to
be American than either Irish or Scotch
and, despite Mr.. Laboucheres soured COM
ments, American women to-day lead the
world in attractiveness.
Some interesting facts to prove that wo-
men outlive men were published recently
in The Sun. A great many women read
the article with good deal of satisfaction,
and one of them has given The Sun some
additional statistics which go to prove the
same thing. These statistics We're collect
ed by DR. Clara Bliss Finley of Washing
ton, d. c. DR.. Finley is a daughter of
the late DR.. Bliss, who was one of the sur
geons in charge of Gen. Gariields case.
DIR. Finley quoted these statistics in an
address before a convention of insurance
underwriters. Her object was to protest
against the existing discrimination against
women in life Insurance.
DR.. Finley admits that she does not be-
lieve that the insurance companies are ac-
tuated by any prejudice against women.
She believes that they have taken their
position as result of experience, but says
THAI their premises are false. She says
that the claim made by insurance compa-
MES that women between given ages are
not such safe risks as men is at variance
with all statistics of the census, hospitals,
and inhrmaries
After careful examination of the vast
amount Of literature on this subject afford
ed by the Capitol and Surgeon-G Generals
office libraries" says DR.. Finley, 81 make
the assertion that in point of fact women
are safer risks because they live longer
More male than female children are born,
and more men than women die between
the ages of fifteen and forty-fve The
ffty-years' exerience of one physician with
regard to births showed a total of $3.50
boys and S,lS6 girls; 104 more boys than
girls.
I'm England and Wales women live
about one year longer than men. In Lon
don the difference is pushed up to two or
three years in favor of women. In the
census of 1870 the percentage of deaths per
thousand was: Male, 1892; female. 20.72.
In 1880 1t was: Male, 1913; female, 1872.
Turning to our own census we see that in
1870 the deaths between the ages Of Is and
As were as folIowss Men, 72,5z5; -swomen,
63,1OO OF the Immigrants who landed on
our shores, the mortality between these
ages stood: Men, 1,2105 $50; women, GA, 100,
leaving surplus of 536, 423 women-a fine
army of Amazonsi And while we are on
statistics L cannot resist the temptation
of telling you something the census reveal
ed TO me which gave me not little COM
fort; and tell it even at the risk of hav-
ing you gentlemen feel little nettled as
you do when woman swings out that ex-
asperating sentence, L told you SOL Well
what the census told me was that more
men than women die of nervous diseases.
The principal anxiety seems to be in re-
gard TO child bearing. but the deaths from
this cause have been reduced to mimi
mum. In 1860 the average was l in every
40; in 1920 in every 120, and now it has
been brought down to the remarkably low
figure of in every 1000. Another incon-
troVertble argument is that married wo-
men live longer than men,"
After adding several pages of interesting
figures to prove her case DR.. Finley ad-
mits that the books of most insurance
companies show that more insured women
than men die. She says she supposes an
explanation of the fact will be demanded
by the practical underwriters. She had
evidently anticipated this demand for she
says that she went TO the managers of
twelve large insurance companies and
asked them If they regarded women as be-
ing as safe risks as men. They unani-
mously answered: yes, If women had
as rigid medical examinations" DR.. Fin
ley contends, therefore. that women in
general are made to pay for the results of
lax examination. There may be some
comfort to women in knowing that after
all the talk about their insignificant posi-
ton in this vale of tears it remains that
they have a longer lease on that position
than men have on theirs.
A lady who spent a considerable time
in the Hawaiian Islands brought home
with her some fine specimens of the flow
ering vines of that luxuriantly blooming
part of the world. These she had copied
and enlarged, the colors of blossom and
leaf being exquisitely reproduced, and the
paintings mounted as a four-fold screen
The panels are at least seven feet high
and two across, giving opportunity for a
good showing of the splendid blooms. The
frame OF the screen is of plain gold sufi-
GENTLY massive to suit It's size, but I'M