OLD MAIDS LIVE LONGEST OF ALL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18008, 19 November 1926, Page 12

OLD MAIDS LIVE LONGEST OF ALL.

BACHELORS ARE “ REJECTS WIVES WORRY AND FRET. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON September 27. It is good to be an old maid, according to Dr E. F. Fisk, medical director of the Life Extension Institute of New York. He declares that spinsters live longer than either married women or bachelors. Why longer than bachelors? Because, according to Dr Fisk, the bachelor:— Represents the rejected goods on the matrimonial market.

Lacks the nagging wife, who unceasingly looks after her husband’s health. Lives in a boarding-house, where the food is unwholesome. Dies from diseases because he has lost energy and fighting spirit, and has no one to encourage him to resist death. W hereas the. spinster, as soon as she realises she has become a member of the fraternity of old maids:— Accepts her lot philosophically. Prepares for herself a comfortably furnished little home. Develops characteristics of brightncss aud cheerfulness. Clings to her friends and enlarges her social circle. Educates herself to love life for the intellectual enjoyment she draws from it. Devotes particular attention to her health. His assertion that old maids live longer than married women Dr Fisk explains by saying that they are not subjected to the physical and moral strains of women who bring up families.