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Show Marriage Makes for Lengthening of Life Dr. Henry Fairfield Osliorn, head ot the American Museum of Natural His lory. New York, is all for the wedding bells and orange blossoms, lie tit lieves from a study of the (acts and figures that a man has a much better chance married to survivt the terrifu strain of modern existence than if he stay? single. Doctor Osliorn bases his theory on a study of the careers of graduates of the class of 1S77 of I'rinreton onl versity. He had a record of those who married in the last 50 years hikI of those who remained single. Forty two pier cent of tl.e married itrndiiates .-'urvived their fiftb'th anniversary while only 2-" per ceni of the hachp lors are living today. The graduating class ot 50 years ago averages seventy-two years; with only 52 of the 172 men who matricu tared with the class still living. Onn-tnarried. Onn-tnarried. the men of each profession not only lived 12 years lunger on tin average than the bachelors, hut 45 pc. cent ot them still survive, as opPov. to 25 per cent of the single men "Some credit for this record mus tie givnn to the good housewives says Doctor Oshorn. "and to the. .-easeless vigilance over overcoats bp j ruhhers." 1 |