East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-18
Statement That Biggar and
John D. Win Celebrate Tooth
Anniversary Causes Thought
written by Margery Rex for the In
ternational News Service.)

Written by Margery Rex for the In
ternational News Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-Dr. H. f.
dggar, physician to John ID. Rookie
eller, threatens to play golf with his
amous patient in their hundredth
ear, we say their" advisedly, since
10Th men are now eighty-two years
ffage. ana the doctor says there is no
God reason why they both shouldn't t
each the century mark.
Anyone who follows his sensible
ray of living can live to be a eenten-
rian." says DR.. Biggar of Mr., Rookie
eller.
He can eat anything. but he OBJ
erves one of the prime laws of health
o eat moderately. His good sense
ellis him that moderation in diet is a
rerequ site Of endurance
Golf. mathematical games. early to
ed and early to rise-these are the
uIes Of the great financier's simply
ived life
But what are his chances or those
f any other man or woman TO live to
'e a hundred?
Is womans chance better or worse
han mans to reach a ripe old age p
Investigation shows some startling
acts Fer instance:
Women. with husbands dies earlier
han spinsters.
Married women who buy insurance
md choose husbands as their benef.
iaries are considered poor risks.
These facts have been called to ouI
Ittention by high official Of a we'll
inown insurance company, who say,
longevity.
Insurance Expert Gives Facts.
"Well-regulated outdoor life, witt
!. fair amount Of exercise, seems to be
good rule to follow. In general, peo.
,le who have adhered to such mode
If life have found Horaces colder
n all things. They choose everything
n moderation.
I'm the Emitted States Life Tables.
lrawn up from the census of 1910
aking note Of the deaths of 1903,
l910-1911, the women show up very
avorably.
Lets look at the tables of Expec
alton Of Life which means the aver
gge number of years lived beyond 1
.eItain age.
This expectation of life in wom
IN whose lives we're followed up from
he age Of ten years, was fifty-foul
years. while for men it was fifty-one.
Taken on from twenty-five years
he average expectation Of men wa
hirty-nine years, and IN the cases o
women it was forty-one. This mean
hat the average man would live TWEEN
y-f.ve plus thirty nine years, and tn
tyerage woman would live twenty-five
)lus forty-one years.
Taken at forty-five, men may ex
lect to live on tenty-four more years
he women twenty-five. The female
S still in the ascendant.
when sixty is reached, the three
core years. our average male hai
more years to look forward
o and the woman still fifteen. | an
eaving out the small fractions; new
woman is still ahead. wher
he seventy-five mark is reached, il
'eached, is only by a fraction. other
wise we count seven years yet to be liz
ID by both males and females, not for.
getting the small additional time fol
women.
Why Women Have Best Chance.
.'How do we account for women be.
ng aheads Well, perhaps less ex-
,osure to the hardships and accidents
If life, less chance Of violent deaths
Iow we come to insurance statistics
THE Medical Actuarial of Mortality
Investigation. published in 1913. deals
With the deaths of insured lives and
ihows mortality rates among the va,
ious classes, as compared with the
.verage mortality of the country.
THE number of deaths among wom-
n is l04 per cent of what they would
'e If the mortality Of women had
'een the same as the average mortal
ty for all risks, or for the total class
That Is, for every one hundred
eaths, counted among general policy
olders. we would get one hundred
nd four among women.
"Spinsters. the term covers all un-
married. women. have a low rate, 81
er cent.
There are two classes among the
larried women. First come the wom-
II whose husbands are to be the bene-
ciaries. They lead in the highest
ate Of deaths, 126 per cent.
THE other class, composed Of those
'ho have beneficiaries other than
leir life partners, have rate of ia
er cent.