Show LENGTH OF MANS LIFE there is no longer any doubt that human longevity depends on human prudence and that the average duration of life depends much on the habits of the people the highest average of mortality or duration of existence is obtained in those countries where culture wealth commerce and civilization are most diffused the smallest or lowest average is where poverty and vice and ignorance reign the question of longevity presents the greatest interest in its relation to man although the conditions and results are similar when applied to the animal and vegetable king kingdom kingda dm according to the scriptures erch was years old when hedded he died methuselah lived to the grand old age of years but the years as then calculated may have been of very much less duration or the longevity attributed to the patriarchs may have reference to their respective families rather than their individual age be this as it may it is certain that after the deluge mans existence was gradually shortened until the average came to that now generally accepted as the limit seventy years shem was years of age when he died abraham lived however only years isaac attained to the age of jacob died at and joseph at all allot of these latter ages however were reached thousands of years after thomas parr an old farm laborer in england died in 1635 after living years and nine months he married when he was and lived jived with his wife twelve years before she died he worked daily up to his hia year and saw nine kings on the english th ahrne rne when he died it was found that all his organs were in a healthy condition that the ossification of the car ti lages usually found in j ged aged per sons was not apparent and ana that death had bad resulted from plethora it was said that had bad parr remained at his own fireside instead of going to london at the kings king Is command he might have lived many years more mary patten is said to have lived to the age of the countess of desmond to thomas damme john rovin bovin and peter torton to the age of all of these people however lived at an age when there was no standard by which to compute events when no chronological records were kept kep tao and when it was the habit to fix dates 1 by comparing them in the memory with other things supposed to wa bv happened at the same time thu V the sources of fallacy were ny mady although the narrators belleve believed 6 their statements to be true tho the late sir george cornewell Cor newall lew tried to probe prove that all of these nat gators like those mentioned in holy writ were inaccurate but bubbi quent cases have shown that wady many people have attained to an W ag of more than a century in ca cases the age has been established by written records and not by bya evidences of a collateral kind nor OV on memory scarcely a month now but that the death 0 of f one oft of more centenarians centen arians is reported arte rte d bud and in nearly every case the fa fact ct aba ehst the deceased had bad lived to the claimed is incontrovertible caseb of longevity it is believed will be come more and more common now DOW as a sufficient time from the beginning of registering births goes on in support of this statement ina many facts can be cited the hilura insurance companies are gradually increasing the limit on life the people sl are coming to appreciate that the aej period of life depends largely upon exter external condition sand the mortality records bear evidences of an average iu crease of human life and a corresponding increase in the expectation on of life at one time the ex expect deew tion of life to a man of 20 was civell as 35 years now a man of 80 it 19 claimed should live to the agre age of 63 at least due attention to the tae law of nature and the known re requa quirO ments of healthy lives in states bod and cities has much to do with this average increase of human life and io 10 no one way is it better proven than in the marked and undeniable reduction of the death rate in places where proper sanitary precautions and measures are made a study and ao perfected man is learning mol DION and more every day how bow to li and although the period of matual ty of the time when virility is a bained cannot be pushed borwig perhaps the evening of we life as aja d the period of decay can be length ened materially there is no reason why a man of 40 or 50 in the fw enjoyment of his faculties and i general good health should not jive li to the age of years just as well wel as to the three score and ten liffe so long as the individual physiology r i teal ical conditions that determine ion lo 10 gerity are observed with the rapid rap strides made in science the poyen pow of man to apply this increase knowledge to the problem of life lifee 00 9 limit of human life must iner though accused of being livers of burning lifers match w both ends the records show amei cans to be among the longest ll people on the earth and that tb tua average duration of life today is coo sider ably greater than it was a c tury ago this is not to be WO 1 dered at however for much of ia work done in the olden time y hand is now HOW performed by mac hla s ery with a corresponding saving Hl vitality strength and life to W worker the problem of lauita sa uita and prevention has in a great W liea been beela solved and the use and se of lifes commodities is in it aued in the curriculum of study i every school throughout the land pho t greatest condition governing i levity viz heredity is better er stood and the taints trans n 16 f from rom generation to gen eta j lero 11 are becoming less and every year as the germs are killed in the present to g e diseases once believed incur nd which were looked for to fc est themselves in posterity birth are now radically cured it 80 h that at noil not 0 only n ay the one in whom ri first allow showed ed is relieved but his fedren dren and his childrens children children are granted immunity immunity Y from a trans ion 0 of f the disease ht the average age of the hu 1 dos race 6 is increasing is an un asa fact the statistics of erica and of A all other countries cate this increase and justify thel I 1 bait limit of 80 to 85 years witha with a lad ws c chance bance of the records of i 10 t hare are not quoted alone in sup the rt of this but the registry of x 08 as well scarcely a day of S but that the birthday arft ahre sortie one is ib reported by the daily c 10 time te the ago newspapers tori t gated doted thirty three death nott notices ces one olle day of these twenty seven ov ere over er 70 years of age seven were her k 80 i 3 f four our were over 90 and two th ad a passed their year of t two wo ese thirty y three ree deaths twenty ld were women nearly all of them widows V aws and the preponderance of cli was aa among them though it is t ther raed and an generally believed that th the ere om are more inore boys born every year w girls giris statistics show that slen odabell Q live lve longer er as a rule than do PM p and this fact is used in sup am of the laim claim made that exter conditi conditions one have a great influx y on the term of human life onen 0 live ve more regularly than reeo en fa fotorny their air habits bre are more in con oha trally y to nature than those of the ft cete 8 sex they are less given to qu ahen besses 08 of all kinds and in conse elace the ne av average 0 rage of their exist I 1 te a greater than that of man foy for foyes cleddes the es the reasons already given bettering of the conditions of abra orning human life the growth of zerance principles the disuse ito ira c cines Cine and sand narcotics play an te nt part the history of cen baans shows that the majority of tha their air have been t temperate r rate and that r of ge vity haa emte been e e n the result a klimple of lif pj and common sense mode prot e 1 some time ago a worthy 1 r ln ila one of the eta rl et leading rp fad ucal ed A 1 sieges eoll ages of the country adof th his M class clam on the opening da day y geny 61 in these words young YOU oun 40 years ago I 1 sat where d day sit 3 and where I 1 stand to denyer tle al a venerable ve and scholarly aln all whose has since gone olle rf name rooe 0 down to posterity and will live v r you and I 1 have passed Po ay vinn 7 t that time it was his aeto race to to etell tell me and my brov I 1 ta toad ad chow earn bow why and when is diff af ja ater medicine today it W tell Y avor 0 erent for it is my privilege to hov ha ani and your privilege to know igar i 1 why y and when not to admin adain medicine brain work so long believed to be unfavorable to longevity is now looked upon in the reverse light and the ageson ages of those eia engaged in pursuits calling for mental labor compared to those of the working classes indicate that brain work is not unfavorable to long life it is ie proverbial that judges and statesmen attain to a good old age while the average life of the wage workers does not compare with them year by year the conditions governing human life increase mans work is made the more easy his future is better assured his comforts multiply he learns the better how to live and his chances for a length of days increase in proportion to his acceptance and application of natures laws chicago mail awl |