Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-19

statistics.
 The Medical Actuarial of Mortality Investigation, published in 1913, deals with the deaths of insured lives and shows mortality rates among the various classes, as com pared with the average mortality of the country.
 The number of deaths among wo men is 1O4 per cent of what they would be if the mortality of women had been the same as the average mortality for all risks" or for the total class.
 deaths, counted among general policy holders, we would get one hundred and four among women.
 'Spinster, the term covers all un- married women, have a low rate, S1 per cent.
 There are two classes among the married women. First comes the women whose husbands are to be the beneficiaries. They lead in the highest rate of death, 126 per cent.
 The other class, composed of those who have beneficiaries other than their life partners, have rate of 114 per cent.
 Among widows, both real and di- vorced women, the rate is 105 per cent.
 Women with husbands seem to die quicker than those without.
 Mortality among women, there fore seems to have been influenced a great deal by what insurance peo- pie term 'self-selection.
 Where the insurance intent is weak the reasons for taking out insurance by those who buy it are actuated by reasons other than nee essity for such protection.
 The married woman not earning her own living, supported by her husband, will be accepted for only a small amount of insurance.
 She generally insures because she hasn't good prospects for longevity.
 Men who must get insurance to provide for those after them get it whether or not they think they will live long, regardless of health or lack of it.
 In the occupationel life. Protest ant clergymen lead the longest lives. As an old friend of mine said of their longevity and reluctance to die, they point the way to other, but show little haste themselves.
 Another good group is the farm CTS not the laboring psychologists, but the proprietor farmers. In England this class is an espec- tally longlived one.
 People interested in different as poets of prohibition frequently like to show a higher rate of mortality among drinkers than abstainers. By drinkers l refer to the regular drink CTS, not the men who get spells of drunkenness, but the good fellow" who takes a little all the time. The total abstainers and the three to four drinks a day fellow differ in other respects than their bibul- ous habits The good fellow very likely has irregular habits of life. He eats at odd hours and neglects to get enough sleep. It is hard to determine how much of his condi- tion is due to drink and how much to other causes which go with his type of nature.'
 Among the group of moderation ists" to which MT. Rockefeller evi- dently belongs, are also Chauncey M, Depew, who recently celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday by working at his office. The well-known states man once told me of the simplicity of his daily life and of his diet John A. Stewart, who in his ninet- | ieth year works at his desk in a Wall street bank, is likewise of an , abstemious nature. He motors tC work, stays downtown few hours partakes of a bread -and-mifk lunch and goes home early. | Julia Ward Howe and Harriet Beecher Stowe were long lived and illustrious women. Their later years were anything but empty, and today we have the renowned Bernhardt marvel of the world aged and crip. 1 pled, but still upon the stage.