Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-06-13
4leH PRESSURE AMERICAN.
IN Spite of Ineessant Activity lie


IN spite of Ineessant Activity lie
lives Longer Than His Fathers.
There Is hardly a week that we do
not see In some journal Or newspaper
an allusion to the high pressure Of
American life. It is taken for granted
that the only pace that kills is our
own, that we are shortening our lives
and bringing our early death by the
strain,
We have often been minded to deny
the allegation, but on second thought
have not done SO because of the great
difficulty that exists in getting at scien-
tifc disproof. We are as little inclined
as another to justify feverish CONNER
= ciaIism, but we believe that these are
unwise. chiefly because of other rea-
sons than those pertaining to vital sta
tistics. The fallacy Of the scoffer at
! American high pressure lies doubtless
in the fact that every one has the vir-
q tues of his defects-i. e., that we have
q other qualities which more than COM
J pensate in life lengthening way. The
:, insurance statistician, Frederick l..
! Hoffman, makes u statement which, II
!, true in all its details, should be laid
! before the echoers Of the old charge
! against the fast living American.
:, 1t is, then, matter of great impor
! lance to note that there has been ma
\ teriaI increase in the number Of thos'
\ who survive to the age Of thirty, fort!
I and fifty in the United States, and thu
Y number win probably continue to grow
u as the conditions of city life are i'm
7 proved.
4 eat present in Massachusetts Their
et are expected to survive at the age o
u fifty 5.275 persons out of every 1000
~ born against 4, 400 survivors out Of tn
III same number in 1850. At the age @
eighty the number of survivors is Log
at present against 1859 half a centur
ago. Therefore most valuable lives
ed valuable because of enhanced INTEL
gence and comprehension-have bee
lei saved to the state because Of the sal
MS itary and other social progress mao
as during the last fifty years. This coul
he try is more healthy, with the exceptic
i'I- Of Norway and Sweden, than any pa
A. of Europe, and the effect of the inteni
rC,- struggle for success on the part of OF
Of business men and women is more thf
I'D balanced by our higher standards
living, which tend to make our peOp
Tie continue along the path Of improy
lad ment. While it is impossible to arri
ON at final conclusions on the basis of 0
tile industrial or ordinary experience.
sDr cause of the careful medical selecti
A exercised in insurance practice,
of facts established by other investia
80 tions indicate that the adult forei
ion born citizen is subject to a lower INT
Use tality in the United States than in
eat own country, and it may be safely
VIII sumed that any inherited tendency
vas early decay will be more than balanc
abe by the healthier conditions of life
our country. A comparative mortal
table shows that close behind Norw
and ahead of Great Britain. Fran
L)u Germany and ahead of other states
up our country, New Jersey has the low
eat death rate. The chance Of attaini
the the age Of 100 in Massachusetts is
oBs day ten times what it was half C
ans fury ago.
girl certainly the facts are abundi
he tending to prove that old age is be
ely, attained by men and women in t
leck country with an increasing degree
'ise. frequency, and, what is better, to gu
the words of an authority, 1t is {
sur tain that orr American men at 81
Erie are not broken mn MS badly as our
wed tbers were at FORTY "-American NJ
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