The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22
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indoor Occupations and Temperate Lives
Favor the Race. s,
From time immemorial physical Wig
or has been considered a sine qua non
to longevity. The races that distln-
gulshed' themselves in the history Of
the world for their aggressiveness,
their physical proWess and yalor have.
IN the main been people Injured to hard
manual labor, out-of-door exercise
and active modes of living. The
Greeks of old were as assiduous in
their devotion to their sports and
games as the Englishman of today is
to his national pastimes of cricket and
racing or the German to his fencing.
The Teuton of the nineteenth century
in physical development surpasses all
other races and rules the world. He Is
on the whole a ,long-lived race He
works with his hands, with his body,
with his legs, and with his brain; in
fact, he works altogether. He is not
apt to stunt one portion Of his physi-
cal makeup to aid in developing an
other portion. In his normal condi-
ton he is a country dwe1ler and des-
plses the town. In contradistinction
to the Teuton, let us consider the Jew,
and we speak now Of the masses.
Physically, he is poorly developed,
says a writer in the Family Doctor
Centuries of oppression have stamped
out his physical vigor, if not his vi
tality. The European Jew is under
sized and markedly so. His mental
Vlgor, however, is unimpaired and
probably on the whole is superior to
his neighbours. He is city dweller
hard manual labor or for physical ex-
ercise or exertion in any form. He is
averse to out-Of-door sport. He pre-
fers to live by his brain rather than by
his muscle. His chest capacity is linn
tied and he possesses many other fea-
lures of physical degeneracy. In fact,
his physical makeup is what one
would expect to find in short-liYed
man. And here is a surprising fea-
ture. Possessing so few of the ele-
ments so long considered as necessary
to longevity, the Jew is probably the
longest lived Of any race of people now
in existence. His tenacity of life is,
remarkable. In spite of the social con-
ditions which surround the mass Of
\ the Hebrew population the world over
land especially in the large cities Of
] Hsaerica. where they form alarge per-
Elsadtage4 of the population. the death
rate among the Jewish Inhabitants is
but little over half of that of the aver
age American population. Prof. Will
liam Ripley, in his papers on the ra-
cial geography of Europe in the Popu-
lar Science Monthly, discusses this
question very ably and very fully. He
states that if two groups of 100 infants
each, one Jewish, and one Of average
American parentage, be born upon the
same day, one-half the Americans will
die hin~forty1seven years, while the
first half of tho Jews will not succumb
ITO disease before the expiration of
seventy-one FEARS. According to Lom-
broso, of / 800 Jews born, Ell die be-
fore the fge of seven years, while
453 Christians, more than twice as
many, ale likely to die within the
Same toefod. +
The immunity of the Jewish popu-
Nation from accident on account of
their lndoor occupation will account
flor sqne of the discrepancy, but on
0this ferry account they should be more
(liabK to epidemic and other disease.
ThY is not wholly true, however. They
show an abnormally small proportion
of Heaths from consumption and pnel1-
mtnia, which are responsible for the
4 largest proportion Of deaths among
tie American population Prof Rip
! Icy ascribes their immunity for this,
dk well as from some other diseases,
| b the. excellent system Of meat in
SECTION prescribed by the Mosaic law
Hoffman says that in London as much
f one-third the meats offered for sale
il rejected as unfit for consumption by
the Jews Probably the temperate
habits for which the Jews as a race
atd noted will account to some extent
for the longevity. The Jew is temper
ateEin almost all he does in all that he
eats and in all that he drinks. He is
seldom addicted to the incorporate
use of alcoholic liquors. He abstains
from certain varieties of meat and
those of the richer and more heating
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