The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-18
Dr.. BertiIIon, Noted Criminal
ogist, Proves a Good
Friend of Cupid.
CONDITIONS IN EUROPE
BACHELORS AND sPiNsTERs DIE
YOUNG, HE STATES, AND AD-
vIsEs WIDOWS AND WIDoWERs
TO MARRY AGAIN..

Paris, Feb. 1S-Punchs famous ad.
vice to those about to get married.
Don't.-is vigorously opposed by DR.
Jacques Bertillon, who is possibly the
greatest living authority on the sexes.
Marry if you want to live to good
old age says DR.. Bertillon, and gives
his reasons with statistics to back
them up. THE married man or wo-
man has," he says, thrice as much
chance of a good. long run of life as a
bachelor or spinster."
He Advises Marriage.
DR.. Bertillon shows also that NOR
tally among widOwers is greater than
the average among married men: so he
recommends them to marry again, pro-
vided they are under 90 years of age.
The figures on which DR.. Bertillon
bases his advice are not peculiar to
France, for he explains that his father,
who also made study of the question,
got statistics from Germany, Austria.
Italy, Sweden, Holland and Belgium,
which completely bear out his opinion,
while he himself has studied the mat
ter in France. To young men DR..
Bertillon has this to say:
Marry and you will do well even
from a selfish standpoint; but watch
carefully over your wife's health, as,
even from this egotistical point of
view, her loss will be terrible misfor-
tune: for your long life depends in a
great measure on her own
TO women his advice is:
And to you, mademoiselle, l give
counsel to marry in your most selfish
interest, as mortality among married
of the same age, at least after age of
20, but the difference is less for wo-
men than for men. The mortality
among spinsters is much greater than
among married women, but it is not
twice as great as in the case Of men,"
Next Comes Widow.
Next comes the widow: Mortality
among widows is distinctly much great
er than among married women OF the
same age. The sweet state of widow
hood is, on the contrary, fatal to
young widows. Their death rate, from
20 to % years of age. is twice that of
married women at the corresponding
age"
Then DR.. Bertillon goes on gallantly
to say that women have less need of
men than the latter have of them. He
says that the death rate is generally
less among women than with men of
the same age and station. What is
the reason: Simply that they are
steadier. And there is no doubt for
the same reason that matrimOny con-
duces to longevity.
Married people lead a more regular
life.' he says. "They are more con-
trolled, discreet though this control
may be, and it must be discreet if it
is to be useful. Their physical life.
like their moral life, is healthier, qui-
eter and more natural.
"Other explanations may be assign
ed, but. in my opinion, they are not
worth this one.''
Gets Best Recruits.
Valetundinarians, weaklings, drunk
ards, and fast people do not marry SO
much as others; so Matrimony, it is ar
gued, gets the soundest recruits. But
this is not a sufficient argument, says
DR.. Bertillon. He says:
IF it were, widowers, who are also
the elect of marriage, would retain the
very low mortality of married men
Well, they have the same death rate as
bachelors, and even higher. perhaps
They succumb to the trouble which
their loss has caused them.
Don't smile-that can happen.
have seen instances of this"
Thus does DR.. Bertillon point the
moral in French statistics: For one
year which he has selected the deaths
per 1000 men, among bachelors be-
tween 35 and 10, were 10: while those
of married men were only s; between
55 and 60 the figure was Al for the for
mer and D for the latter. With wo
men at the same ages the mortality
was correspondingly II and 8 between
81 and 40, and ~ and IS between 5;
and 90. The death rates among wild
ows and divorces were, respectively
j. and Il per LOCO women.
Aeaxenlv