Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — THE SEXES NORTH AND SOUT. [ARTICLE]

THE SEXES NORTH AND SOUT.

Some valuable Statistics In Regard to Men and Women. In 1880 there were 5d,050,000 people in this country, and about 882,000 more males than females. That was onlj because more males were bora; tht females live the longest Of the centenarians i. 400 were men and 2.901 were women. The boys start out nearly 1,000,000 ahead, and remain ir the majority until the sixteenth yeai when the girls are a little more u umerdus. Sweet 16 is a numerous age anyhow. After thef first one and then the ether is in. that majority, the girls gradually gainingafter 36 and leaving the men far behind after 75. To balance this longevity of the females in almost every state a few more boys are born; not many more, but always a few. it is astonishing to see when the census gives thousands and hundreds of thousands of hoys and girls under 1 yean old there aro, with one or two exceptions, always a few hundred more boys, and only a few hundred more. In only six of the forty-nine states an d territories are more girls born, and in these states they are slightly in excess from eleven to eighty. Those exceptions are Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Montana and North Carolina. The fact that tin females are in the majority in all the original thirteen states but Delaware and North Carolina, especially in Massachusetts and New England, has created the impression that there is something in the climate or in the people tha't produces more women than men. This is a popular but egregious error. In Massachusetts there were in 1880, 437 more boys than girls under one year of age. The males are in the minority in almost all the eastern state?, because many of the young men go west. All over fTfe* west there is an excess of men, and those who are not foreigners, have been withdrawn from the states farther east. In the new states and territories this is most noticeable. In Idaho, for instance, there are twice as many males as females, but the male infants are only a little in excess of the females. The west is drawing heavily on the manhood- of the east. From this all the old states have suffered. Massachusetts seems to have lost more than any. - ——— There are parts of northern Ohio which are portions of New EnglamFremoved. Massachusetrs shows the loss and Ohio shows the gain. Another curious fact is that while over the country more boys than girls are born, in tho .cities and towns there arc more girls. Between the age! of 5 and 17 inclusive there aro 4,680 more girls than boys in New York county, 1,708 more in Kings c0unty,2,725 more in the city of Baltimore, 1,013 in Suffolk county, Mass. (Boston), 2,009 more in Cook county (Chicago),lll., 2,131 more in the city of St. Louis, 2.971 hiore in Philadelphia county and 2,638 more in the parish of Orleans. All these cities, except New Orleans, are in states where more boys than girls ar* born. In Georgia there are 137 counties, and in all but twenty-six of them there are more boys than girls. These twentysix counties include the eleven large towns and cities. Strange that not one of the cities should be left out. Stranger still, the excess of girls is about in proportion to population. Savannah leads off with 528 more girls than boys; Atlanta, 385; Augus a, 303; Macon, 154; Columbus,l3l; Cartersville, 122; Rome 50; Athens, 50; Albany, 16; Griffin, 11, and Americus, 7. Savannah, though she has a somewhat smaller population than Atlanta, has a larger excess of girls. This seems to be peculiar to old cities. It is so with Baltimore, New Orleans and New York. The excess is greater in New Orleans than anywhere else. Is this a peculiarity of the French? The facts present a fact worth studying. Are there fewer men in the sities than in the country?—-Philadel-phiaTimea. . ——— t: —