The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-11-13
AIDS TO LONGEVITY.

From time immemorial physical Wig
or has been considered "A sine qua no
TO longevity. The races that distin
guished themselves in the history o
i The world for their aggressiveness
their physical proves and valor, have
In the main. been people Injured TO har,
! manual labor. out t-~-door exercise am
| active modes Of living.
The Greeks OF old Were as assiluou'
| In their devotion 10 their sports ans
| games as the Engllshman Of today /:
to his national pastimes Of cricket and
| racing or the German To his fencing
! The Teuton OF the nineteenth century
| In physical deVe eluAnent. surpasses al
| other races and r'Das the word. He is
what some one has dubbed a masculine
race He is on the whole a lOng-liYed
race. He works with his hands, Wltn
his body. with his legs and with his
bTain--in fact. he works altogether. He
is not apt 10 STUNT one portion Of his
physical makeup 10 aid i'm developing
another pQTIon. In his normal COndi-
tion he Is "A country dWeller and de-
su.ses the town, says the Country Doe.
tor
I'm conIadistinction 90 the Teuton let
Us consider the Hebrew and we speak
ioW ~ the masses. Physically h is
poorly developed. Centuries of oppres-
sion have samped out his physical Wig
or ID not his vitality. The European
jew rs understood, and markedly SO.
His mental vigor. however is unim-
paired. and probably on the whole -
superior 10 his neiGhbor's. He is a city
dwellti and betrays an Inherent dis
Ike for hard manual labor or for ply
steal exercise or exeltion i'm any form.
He is averse u out-of-door sport. He
prefers TO live by his brain rather than
by his muscle. His chest capacity IS
linn. d. and he possesses many other
features of physical degeneracy. In
fac his physical makeup * what one
would expect TO find in a sh0Ft-lived
man. Ana here Is surprising feature.
Possessing so few Cf the clements So
long considered as necessary 10 Ion
geNity. the jew liz probably the longest
lived ot any race OF people now I'M eX-
ls'erce. His tenacity OF life Is remark
able.
I'm spite If The social conditions which
surround the mass Of the Hebrew pom
ulation the world over. and especially
i'm the large cities OF America. where
they form a large percentage of tho
population. the death rate among the
Jewish inhabitants is but liftle over
half of that rf the average American
IN his papers on the racial GEOGRAPHY
of Eurone In the Popular Science
Monthly" discusses the question very
ablY and very fully. He states that II
two erouns of 100 infants each. Nne
Jewish and one OF average American
parcr @e he born unon the same dav.
oue-half the Americans viii die within
fortv-saven years. while the first half
q fthn Jews viii nor succumb 10 dis
ease before the expiration of seventy
one years.
According To Uombroso. of 1000 Jews
born 2l7 de before the age of years.
while 453 Christians more than twice
as many. are lil,eIy 10 die within the
same period. The Immunity of the
Jewish population from accident on ac-
count of their md nor occupation will
account for some OF the Discrepancy.
hut IN this very account they should
n TsPEses TINS Ts n5T Wholly Tue. how
ever. They show an abnGrmallv small
81 deaths from consumption
3 nd pneumonia. which are responsible
for the largest proportion of depths
q r,ong tho Aruericar p1pulation. Prof.
PipleV aeeribee their immunity from
tire "a well rs from some other dis
eases. 20 the excelleut svstem - meat
insnect'o0 prescribed by tho Mosaic
law Hoffman save thlt i'm London as
murN as one-third of the meats nf-
fered f'r' cole Gre rejected as unFt FOR
c0nsun'ntion bv the Jews Probe biv
the temperate habits fo~ wh'ch the
Jews. as = whole. a~e noted win ac-
court 10 some extert for their l0ngev-