Evening journal., 1911-06-08
SHOWS WOMEN LIVE
LONGER THAN MEN
DR.. Stewart of Oklahoma Tries
to Prove Physical Su-
periOrity of Sex

NEW YORK, June S-Women live
longer than men, according TO the in
vestigations of DR.. A. II. Stewart of
Lawton, Okla, who contributed an ar
ticle on the comparative longevity Of
the sexes in the current number of the
Medical Record. in which he holds
a brief for woman's physical super
iority.
Some one has said.r observes the
physician, that the greatest mystery
in all the world was woman who
was not herself mystery. From the
earliest recorded times women have
been spoken of as the weaker sex, as
frail. delicate creatures. Yet the dawn
Of the Twentieth Century finds us
with abundant proof Of woman's
physical superiority over man. when
tested by length of years. the power
to endure suffering and resist dis
ease
Dr. Stewart finds that, according to
the census of 1890, there were 1881
centenarians in this country, of whom
1858 were women and 1898 men But
it is useless" continues tho savant,
Ito multiply statistics. From what
p
preponderancc Of women I'm the older
population and the greater tho age
the greater is this preponderance.
Tho mystery of this tenacity Of life
in women still remains secret. Some
cynic, with little regard for gallantry.
has suggested that probably IL was
due to the innate tendacy Of women
TO have the last word"
II is mentioned in the article that
with the exception of the first three
years of her life. womans superiority
over man does not really begin until
after 80 or 30 years OF age.
Dr. Stewart has ascortained that
women require less oxygen than men.
and can therefore endure more heat,
stand more rarified air, suffer less
from anaosthetics and also arc much
moro liable to survive hanging. He
recounts cases in the Middle Ages in
which II was no uncommon thing to
find the recently executed woman.
whose corpse was being driven away.
rise and converse. Ono woman was
pardoned because she had come back
for the last word. and another was
married and lived 15 years after the
second moose was slipped.
"Degenorative changes in the blood
vessels continues DR.. Stewart, "and
rigidity of the thoraX, both character
istic of scnility are found much earl
ier in man than i'm woman. Man dies
suddenly much oftener than does wo-
man. Men suffer from badness more
frequently than do women This is
not confined to civilized races, but is
found among savages and semi-civil-
lied tribes, as in many Of the tribes
Of North American Indians, even
where it is the custom for the women,
instead Of the men, to wear the hair
short"
1t is also found that there are more
variations from thhe normal among
men than among women, which leads
the investigator to the conclusion that
''geniuses, including mathematical
prodigies. are more frequent among
men, idiots and cranks being les.
frequent among women.
One of the pricipal reasons for the
survival Of the fairest Or. Stewart
sees in the fact that women heed the
warnings of fatigue and avoid the
i fatal crash, while man, with his iron
will. after complete exhaustion. re-
solves to take another step il he dies
( i'm the attempt. The physician con
siders the woman 4 physiological
miser who accumulates energy with
ont eNpending it.. while man is q
/ physiological prodigal, who cxpends
moro force than he gathers