Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-06-03
WOMEN RESERVE
THEIR energies
MUCH PROFIT is DERIVED BY
PHYSIOLOGICAL MISERS.
They LIVE The LONGER
No Difference In Longevity OF Sexes
After Suffrage IL Ex-
tended.


Women live longer than men be-
cause they are physiological misers,
who accumulate energy without ex-
pending It,
That, at least. is the belief OF Dr,
A. II. Stewart Of oklahoma, who con-
tributes an article on the comparative
longevity OF the sexes to the current
number OF the Medical Record.
Women today live longer than
mon" concurs DR.. E. Helen Knight
Of New York City. because they are
conservators Of everything including
their own lives; because they are less
exposed to violent accidents than men;
because they dissipate less; because
they have fewer children than their
.grandmothers had, ana because when
they do have their one or two or at
most three infants they are so well
cared for that it has como to be a dis
grace to n physician to lose the life Of
a woman patient al such time"
But this superior longevity Of wom-
an is, DR. Knight believes, an ac-
qulred sex privilege, one which wom-
an will lose gradually as she advances
in public life and competes with man
I'm the market and the forum
Already" she says, "woman's out
side activities are tending to subject
her TO the same nervous strain as man
endures, and today she suffers oc-
casionally from forms OF nervous dl-
sease, as, for instance locomotor ataX-
IA, from which formerly she was prac-
tlcally exempt"
by an ingenuity which envled her,
Doctor Knight deduced from her en-
tire argument that If man wants to
live as long as woman he must permit
her to vote.
Doctor Knights appearance typifies
all that is best in the American pro-
fesslonal woman. She Is slender erect
gentle in voice and manner and has
quantities OF soft, silvery gray hair.
Women are physiological mlsers
she said when I saw her in her office
at 35 Mount Morris Park. 81 envy
Doctor Stewart the phrase. They are
the great conservators. They save life,
energy, vitality which men expend
prodigally sometimes in their work,
but often in dlsslpations which are
the reactions from work.
The main reason, of course, for
the greater longevity of woman is her
|gh al 10, 20 sa11
sorts OF violent accidents in their work
or In going to and from work from
which the majority of women are still
protected"
Maternity has no extreme perils
except for the woman who has alb
solutely no resistance, no energy at all.
Then, too, the whole tendency OF civi-
li2ation Is toward the small family.
Three children are today large al
lowance; one and two are more COM
mon. Maternity happening once or
twice In a lifetime, and with the care
which surrounds women today IS not
a factor in longevity at all
81 can't regard extreme longevity
as desirable" Doctor Knight added.
Most centenarians have been dead to
oil practical purposes for at least TWEEN
ty years and don't think women can
take any credit for the record. Doctor
Stewart cites for the year 1890, o.
jS3 women centenarians as against
1898 men more than 100 years old.
Men eXpend n great deal Of vital
and nervous force in the process OF
making a living, and women who do
not lead parasitic lives meet similar
demands upon their energies
More and more as women go into
industry. into the professions, into the
forum. conditions OF living between
men and women will be equalized.
THE female parasite, whose brain
practically atrophies after marriage,
whose husband looks upon her as one
Of his possessions, and who is glad TO
be 20 regarded I'm exchange for a sup
port, is indeed a miser Of every form
Of energy
She eats too much, sleeps too much,
talks too much, gets too fat and then
takes n massage. But she never thinks
II necessary to massage the fat Off her
unused mind.
But Nature tends 10 equlllbriate
everything. Tho woman Of the future
win, | think, be much more like man
than the woman OF today. Mentally
and physically men and women will be
much more alike. Similarity Of occu-
patton. Of thought, will modify sex dlf-
ferences I don't mean in few hun
dred years, but in two thousand or
three thousand years,
Woman will have tho Same rights
as man and viii be deprived Of her
sex privileges, including that privilege
Of living longer than man. And" nd
ded Doctor Knight. quI2ically. "that't
n good suffrage argument, isn't It?
II men want to live longer let them
give women tho vote"