Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — CREDIT GIVEN TO THE WIFE [ARTICLE]

CREDIT GIVEN TO THE WIFE

Good and Sufficient Reasons Why Married Man Lives Longer Than the Bachelor.

It is a good thing for a man to have a wife to look after his ingoings and outcomings—to enforce regularity in his mode of living—to see that he is clothed according to the requirements of the temperature, and takes his umbrella when there is likelihood of showers, and gets good meals at stated hours. Jacques Bertlllon, the French expert on occupational mortality, has found that low death rates occur particularly in occupations in which the workman is under more or less supervision as regards not only health but also habits of life, and in which he is surrounded by influences tending to prevent dissipation, and conducive to regular hours and regular habits. Bank clerks and fiduciary employes who feel their responsibilities are types of this. Bertillon attributes much the same influence to marriage and family life. The married man is supervised for his own good, and, having added incentives to self-restraint and to the care of his health, he has a lower mortality than the bachelor. —Journal of the American Medical Association.