Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-13

/ = years. But women have better chances
| than n~n.
There IL no one recipe for longevity, bgt
there are cortaln well-cstabliEhed Bug.
4 Restions, most actnaries appee.
II you would live 70 b. a John Shell
I try these rules:
! I. Don't worry
2. Bo temperate.
/ 3. Got plenty Of fresh air
| q. BE examined thoroughly oncs n rnar.
| 3. Don't get fat.
( The carelcssness Of tho average mar
/ regarding his health is tho despair ~
/ medical examiners Tor life Insurance com
! psneg. ''Ihe average man, one "a pea~
/ men said, will send his motor car 10 tho
garage every six months for oycrhauiiug,
| but he sill refuse tn let q doctor exsrline
him as frequently IIn ~ afraid n What
viii be found One Jay he falls over in
! faint, and then .fndg % disease advanced
/ too far for cure. IIc could have detected
! tho first advances Of that disease by
careful examination once q year. lie
would have bern told bO quit eating 20
much Fugnr. To leave alcohol slone, or -
do this and that before IL was too late
AZ present there II little evidence ~
show that people arc living much longer
This ~ because most Of The benefits ~
modern medical science gD n the young
Infant mortality and tuberculosis arc
being greatly reduced but that yiotory
over death will mt show IN The mortality
tables for many years. Meantime older
persons have M such aid 10 prulODg tbnlr
lives, bat arc actually threatened With an
alarming increase IN The dcgeneraiing
diseases ~ heart and urrve strain
Prohibition. however. IS going % Tgo-
long life, All insurance mcn sgce. The
II.
is = poor rick, ami he heavy drinr.r
very bad risk Indeed, pne company
has lopg refused ~ nslro drinkrTs Ar
othrr wiil not even lDuirC q man ~ any
way connectod with the liquor TRADE.
be be- bartender or = gto~gholier IN a
brewery
Doctor" a ne inr1ran-- sx~-n-
was aekrd, ~ havc . friend pvrr 6f'y
who n hnd shape fie has always hsf
four or five good drinks = dag snd -ryht
cap NJ night Now he csn hsrely grt ornrr
D day lIc losing hrah and his finr~tip-
get cold what about t7'
man Is W 4 bad way when h~ fs-l~
Ike that was tho reply. 'fhr ehsr~es
Gre hc has hobnailed iiv~T .T0~ lining
7 og h,s stomach would probably make 2
7 good shoe leather and hr nay benr--.
( nciiras'hruic
I he nerd7 Y cocktail - scrqtrh hrs str-rsch
+ His fnrertips are cold becsuse alcohol haq
irritated hig nervne, which control th.'
circulation
In ~ 11H rxercise jr8ircrr3y, Eet
plenty ~ fresh air, gDod food r,Fenty ~
sleep llttle tonic p.erhaps hgTl pull
through But he mustn't take drnk
eat breakfast and nm for The trim al -
Lhe same time
Are yon fat rnan7 r. ~, 20, hsv~
lcss chance ~ 1--we ~ bc l32 than a thin
pan
Fat" qays The hesd ~ the needirni
conservation department. ~ perhaps the
biggest insurance company IN The cnunfrv,
nis q PARASITE and bree5s heart failure
BrevEerv' horgcs fed on Fasit are fat, but
fhev can't stand hard work. There is
saf irec IN Afrca N the EIde n which
grows 4 parasite which fccds on the real
fibre NJ SIC irce weakening ia gram
IA tat muscle IS not 50 strong as a lean
muscle Hence lthlGtes train. \ i9t
man attacked bv pneumonia, tvphoid,
or even 4 tit 0f anger. has already paid the
FIRST jnstallmcnt ou his tombstone. Fat
IN the heart, i.ldneys or liver IS the De-
ginning 1f the end
according to this doctor, fat Is ah right
between the ages oi 20 and 30, Below
20 il Is frequent indication OF tuDercuiosis
Over 20 the thin man has better chance
20 live than the fat man.
The test of whether you are fat or not S
simple. You NAV have big legs, big bones
and hig shoulders and stlli not be fat.
But Il vour waist measure exceeds your
chest measure start dieting.
. smoking mas not Deen considered 8 tar
70 ong life for fifteen years, life insurance
men saw Married life, they add. rnakes
slightly for longevity II II Goes not bring
too many troubles here are no statEtics
10 show that confluence proiongs life ap-
preciably However It Is a disputed point
whether married men live longer than
single men. Many men, L is pointed out,
are barred from marriage by nelng huns
tics, physically unfit and 50 on.
The subject Of insurIng women g
one that makes all actuAEIes smile, -
pcciAilv il they are anti-suiiraEsts. Wo-
men have only recently been insured -
any extent, they say, because most w0-
men have little insuranle interest
That Is a polite way u saying mat Little
economic loss is caused ty he death of
the average woman.
Mess a woman is nre4dWInncr, sup
porting children or d crippled husba1O,
she has little nsUrable interest Jeyoud
$500 required Tor her bur.SI, life lns'rancc
agents say. Very frequently too insurance
companies demand nat he a1sban1
take out an equal amount of insurance.
each being the other beneficiary. One
company viii not insure women A. al.
Spinsters are better risks than married
women, and women with children IS
bene6ciaries are more favorably received
than those whose husbands are their bene-
ticiaries. Indeed, a recent study Of mortal
lty among insured women showed he
highest mortality among msrued women
whose husbands we're their benehclAEeS
Women are not Insured manly for
three reasons The first IS ecOnOnmc-
second, II IS difficult TO get AZ accura te
medical picture of the woman applicant,
since the largest Life insurance company Ln
the country has only three women eX-
aminerS. third there is 2 psychic cOu-
stitution of women which u,annests f.
self IN an intUltive prcmunItIoE 81 n-
pending disease. This, lie insurance men
SAY, accounts for the many cases Of APP
pasently good women RISKS who within
short periods after examination develop
serious and even iatal malddies.
With the exception ci few new con-
'p3nies, the war proper hardly touched
The life insurance business. This wsS due 20
. number Of causes. First, he American
forces suffered compara. ively light losses.
second, most OF the men killed we're young
men without old-fsshioned insurance
In addition, most American cOn1psnies