THE NAGGING WIFE.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 145, 12 August 1926, Page 2

THE NAGGING WIFE.

PRESERVER OF HEALTH. Americans are always dividing people into classes and categories. One of the latest statistical tables to be prepared is the work of Dr. Eugene Fisk, the medical director of the world-famous Life Extension Institute \ of New York, who has demonstrated I the fact by ,* indisputable figures that ( married men live longer than single ones. Analysing the comparative death] rates, Dr. Fisk points out that in the first place most bachelors represent ] “ rejected goods ” on the matrimonial j market. The class includes the mental, physical and financial cripples. Another reason why bachelors are such relatively bad risks, continues Dr. Fisk, is that they are without that great preserver of health—a nagging wife. “ It is small wonder that bachelors ' die off twice as rapidly as their more j carefully watched and guarded breth- 1 ren,” says the medical director. “ It ! ' is not such material things as un- j tended colds or poor food that send bachelors to early graves. Many of them die because they have lost the ;

will to live—because they have no interests vital or vivid enough to keep them bound to the humdrum wheel of daily existence.” For years, says Dr. Fisk, the world has heaped unnecessary _ pity on the head of the unmarried woman. “ The truth of the matter is that the un- ! married woman adapts herself to single life with a readiness that should excite envy from her bachelor I brother. The single woman, I find, up | to the age of 45, has a mortality rate , lower than that of the married woman ; during later life her rate is higher, but even then the difference is slight. “ The mortality among widows, however, is appalling, and from the standpoint of the statistics the best thing a widow can do is to marry again as soon as possible. Widowers also die with great determination and despatch, thus proving what happens when the nagging woman is absent.” Dr. Fisk believes that, although ' some men feel obliged to stay single I in order to devote themselves wholeheartedly to science or art, there is, nevertheless, no career in the w 7 orld that could not be helped by the right kind of wife. “ The idea that neither a man nor a woman can reach a point of great distinction because of the trammels of married life is utter nonsense,” says Dr. Fisk.