Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — The Immense Crop of Old Maids. [ARTICLE]

The Immense Crop of Old Maids.

A big crop of old maids seems imminent, judging from statistics. If the statistics of Great Britain are correct, the excess of women and girls over men and boys in that country is about 900,000. an increase in ten years of about 200,000. In Germany the number of females in excess of males is about 1,000.000. In Sweden and Norway the “weaker sex” is in the majority by about 250,000: in AustroHungary by 600,000: and in Denmark by 60,000. In the United States. Canada, and Australia the males are in the majority. In this country there are about 1,000,000 more men than women.