Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — Not Too Many Women. [ARTICLE]

Not Too Many Women.

- The census recently, completed shows that the feminine population is increasing at a rapid .rate iu the large cities and It is predicted that this country will presently be confronted by a problem that has" worried foreign statisticians for some time —the preponderance of women. It is admitted that the women here have the advantage over their foreign sisters in that many fields of work are opened to them and they can also hold and dispose of property to an extent unknown ou the other side. So that the American woman Is In a great measure economically independent of man, and thus does she escape some of the serious consequences that afflict the foreign woman. It seems a pity that anyone at this late day should fall to worry lug about the superfluous woman myth. It Is such nu old, old story, and one that has times without number proven to be needlessly disturbing. As to the bogey of so many women, did it* ever occur to the alarmist to atteiupt to figure how many of these feminine over plus were widows who persist iu outliving their husbands ten, twenty or even thirty years aud spinsters of uncertain age? Statistics published about ten years ago showed that in London, where the woman population is greatly In excess of the male, between the ages of 18 aud 45 the men were in excess.