Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — FAVORITE AGES OF WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

FAVORITE AGES OF WOMEN.

They Appear to Rose Between Sixteen and Twenty-four Years. It may seem strange that women liave preferences for particular ages. An inspection of the census, however, leaves no room for doubt that certain years are preferred aud certain other years disliked by the members of the gentler sex.

Of children fourteen years and under the number of boys is nearly 400,000 greater than the number of girls; at tifteen the boys are still 6,000 ahead of the girls; at sixteen the girls are 6,000 the more numerous, and each year thereafter until the twenty-fourth there is an excess of women over men. The favorite ages within these limits are eighteen and twenty. There are 24,000 more misses of eighteen than there are boys of that age, and the young ladies twenty years old exceed their masculine companions by 54,000. At twenty-four aud twenty-five the numbers of the two sexes are nearly equal. Then the women begin to grow less with great rapidity. The most unpopular ages are thirty and forty. At the former age there is a difference of 78,000 between the two sexes; at the latter 83,000. One peculiar circumstance la that there are more women twenty years old than there are girls of thirteen or fourteen or any age up to twenty. This fact conclusively demonstrates that twenty la a very healthful age. But If the younger ages are unhealthy, where did the Increased number who am twenty years old come from? No women are born thft qkl.

Only an unusually elastic theory can account for these peculiarities with becoming gallantry to the lovelier sex.— J. S. Gilham in Ladies’ Home Journal.