Are Men Dying Out P

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 290, 25 April 1889, Page 3

Are Men Dying Out P

May Ostlm in the Society Herald writes as follows The statistical crank has a?ain been let loose on us, This time he appears in New Orleans, end wants us tn believe that men are > dying out. M Jl* says that everywhere women have a PMtter chance of life than men, and will survive them, Nor is it in this case a survival of the fittest, for he does not think them at all fit. Bat he has been going around counting up things—births, baptisms, marriages, deaths—and I think it has turned in on him. He says: “In all old settled communities we find the females predominating, in civilised life a man naturally has to brave more risks and undergo hardships as the bread winner which women, generally speaking, have not. Therefore we find an increase in the female population straight along, Liquor and tobacco tend to shorten a man's life. From yonth upwards it is the same, the girl likes to stay at home with mamma; the boy will rush out at the slightest excitement. It is the boy who gets into every kind of mischief, and all this affects Bis chance of life. Southern Women live longer than northern because they are mostly surrounded by those things which go to make home comfortable. The protected woman, in fact, whether north or south, is Isss exposed to communicable disease.

In 1881,1802 men died in Montreal, and 1785 women. In the province of Quebec 18,526 meh, 12,531 women. In Montreal in 1887, 2788 men died, as compared with 2503 Women. The total births last year were SB«g i of which more thou half warn male. . T¥‘ T 0!? anfi mgN ] off the scene, is a matter for more fighting than I have at present time to give to the question,” As ray quotation is a minimum of what he •aid ho must have already glvan quite a time o it. If men are going to dis out I don’t now how it is to he ooped with, I'm sure ; at J fapay that by taking a fair average of 1 nations, seas, and lands, One would think at then was not much danger of it. There h plenty to spare and a good many who \over would be missed ” anyhow. And 'let's the use of taking time so awfully by Is forelock as all that and worrying quite a tndred generations in advance 1 Why it’s worse than the coal scare 1 Of course, in the event of this awful cala£ty, there are heaps of women who can run tyatree, keep shops, speak on platforms. Ilin Parliament, preach in churches, cut off 1% sew up wounds, guide us around LonM, go down to the sea in ships, support ohritabl® inititutionijiill Government office*, ■wep crossings, and go around with oats’ mat barrows, but who, oh, who, would there be »f t to edit our newspapers I 1 %is is indeed a bitter thought—l weep. Bcouse the weeps, they are a touching trib«ti to memories of the future 1