The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22
JEWS LoNG-LivED. .
Indoor Occupations and Temperate Lives;
-. Favor the. Race Is Z.

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indoor Occupations and Temperate Live
i Favor the Race. 81
i FROM time immemorial physical Wig.
or has been considered a sine qua nor
10 longevity. The races that distln.
4 sulsneds themselves in the history o,
the world for their aggressivenes
thelr physical prowess and valor have
IN the main mrain been people Injured to hard
manual labor, out-of-door exercise
and active modes of living. The
Greeks of old were as assiduous in
1 thelr devotion to their sports and
games as the Englishman of today is
10 MS national pastimes of cricket and
racing or the German to his fencing,
Inc 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
TACT, 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-
| tlon ne is a country dweller and des-
| plses the town. In contradistinction
| 10 the Teuton, let us consider the Jew,
! and we speak now of the masses.
| Physically, he is poorly developed,
says 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 a city dweller
( and betrays an inherent dislike for
hard manual labor or for physical ex-
erclse or exertion in any form. He is
averse to out-of-door sport. He pre-
I 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,
MS physical makeup is what: one
would expect to find in a 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
Eards & especially in the & large cities Of
4 4 sHaerica,,=Where they. form a:large per-
fsteGssntage 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
Estates 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
gle within forty -seven years, while the
first half Of the Jews will not succumb
Ito disease before the expiration of
beventy-one FEARS. According to Lom-
|broso, of !, 900 Jews born, III die be-
fore the fge of seven years, while
A5S Christians, more than twice as
many, at likely to die within the
same toefod.
The immunity of the Jewish popu-
lation from accident on account of
their Indoor occupation will account
for sqne of the discrepancy, but on
this Jerry account they should be more |
'liabE to epidemic and other disease.
ThP is not wholly true, however. They
shTW an abnormally small proportion
ofHeaths from consumption and pneu-
m4lnia, which are responsible for the
lfgest proportion Of: deaths among
|te American population. Prof. Rip,
! ascribes their immunity for this. /
well as from some other diseases, I
the excellent system of meat in
I fction prescribed by the Mosaic law.
Pffnan says that in London as much
1One-third the meats offered for sale
rejected as unfit for consumption by
P Jews. Probably the temperate
pits for which the Jews as a race
F noted will account to some extent
the longevity. The Jew is temper
in almost all he does lin all that he
land in all that he. drinks. He is
pom addicted to the intemperate
of alcoholic liquors. He abstains
m certain varieties Of meat and
lse of the richer and more heating
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