The Washington times., 1921-10-14
FAIR COED,
SUPER GIRL
OFFUTl)RE.
Health Expert Says Hope Of
Race Lies In Cultured
Ranks Of coIlsgians.
By MILDRED MORRIS.
InfssnafSona Nara 6arxioa.


NEW YORK. Oct. 1.-The coll
lege girl was proclaimed today to be
the "twentieth century super-wom-
IN" by DR.. Eugene Lyman Fisk, di-
rector Of the Life Extensien Insti-
tute Of New York and one Of the
ksSt-known health authoritiss In the
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Es sAe6esvlinx - H. nNpouS expeRt,
latest Statjstioe show 6oafege women
70 have the lowAst mortality rate.
H1aa Not q Nigh. q
College msn gsads high physicaiiy
on the average. but not % high A the
In q report compiled for the com
mittee appointed by the Federated
American Engineering societies, to
study elimination of waste In industry.
DIR. Fisk holds up the college woman
a. m example to al seeking the road
to health and long life.
Ap Investigation Of mortality among
graduates Of Smith, Wellesley, and
Vassar colleges. three OF the leading
wovnen's educational institutions Of
the country, showed a death rate Of
one-third OF the death rate In industry,
according to DR.. Fisk.
This type Of cultured woman who
has kept physical development on q
par with mental development makes
the ideai mother" said DIR. Fisk to-
day. III the average mother was Of
the type of the college woman. we
would be assured OF a super race In
time.
"The fact that the lowest mortality
rate Is among college women shows
that the girl In college employs her
Intelligence not only for individual
protection but for the Improvement OF
the race.
Tn college she learns personal
hygiene. she has regular physical
training and proper medical super
vision, and, according to mortality
statistics, she represents the highest
health type in the United States.
Culture Plus Health.
The cultured woman particularly
is taking more interest in her health.
Whether this growing interest IN
physical development among women
means in the future a superwoman OF
the Amazon type il something difficult
to tell. We have always heredity to
take into consideration. :.
"The college woman may not be
bigger physically than other women.
but she has raised her physicai Ell.
ficiency Mortality figures prove that
shs ,s making the most OF her physical
powers and iengthening her life span.
unfortunately for the race, IL Ia
not the college woman with her
superior mental and physical develop
ment who rears the large families, but
the woman Of the inferior type.
ANY individual of intelligence can
achieve the high standard Of health
represented by the college woman.
What she has done anyone can do
with the exercise Of intelligence and
energy.
use only one-third of their powers.
why7 Because they are physically
below par"
The general death rate shows de-
crease, but this should not be taken
as an encouraging sign," DIR. Fisk
said.
interest In Health.
"The only encouraging sign is that
there is a greater interest in health"
he said. "The fact that the death
rate among men Of fifty years has
Increased n most discouraging. The
death rate In middle age of life In
America is now greater than in Eng
land and Wales.
"a man at sixty years should have
his full vigor, al.s that few do at
that age is a commentary on civil.
ration. One OF the greatest iNdict-
ments against civilization In that
man at forty-five wears is regarded
as useless by a large part Of In
dustry."
According 10 DR.. Fisk n In n ''rea-
sonehie expectation" that the day
will come when the average man
will live to round out the century
mark