Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-04-17
W0manly Statistics.

"The ladies" is the unla'ling toast al
every dinner they are the first aud best
teachers of our children" Men ne7er
get toasted in the general. Nobody drinks
their health: nobody says: 'God bless
them" Singly lone or two at a time
those who have fought great battles. made
good books, been promoted to high Offices,
are drunk with the hopors, Men never
grumble at this omission the ladies are
very apt to pout about theirs, as if this
nominal recognition Of Heir worth were a
kind bflabored apology sor some previous
neglect. Nature has a way of checking
and balancing which succeeds in keeping
pretty nearly equal classes that would 9TH
erwise get the advantage Ct each other
The whale drink. down whole schools of
little floating insects at draughi; but
were the great crowd Of suffering insects
aggregated into convention, there is no
doubt they would out weigh, by tons. all
the whales that spout in all the seas. The
magic of numbers makes them superior to
their monstrous enemies and to outweigh
them. So Qhe ladies will pardon us) ma
ture generally equalizes the sexes by
making the females outnumber the males,
who are stouter, vainer. and presumptuous
enough to deem themselves superior. Nor
is it by causing the births Of females to ex-
coed those of males, as has generally been
supposed. In no year since the establish
ment OF registration in Massachusetts, has
that been the case. Last year, Indeed,
Boston was an exception. But Boston is
a literary and peculiar emporium
Throughout the Commonwealth the excess
was S14 in favor Of the males. During the
thirteen years, from 1851 inclusive, l04,
S65 boys were born to every 100, 900 girls,
in England aud Wales, and yet to every
100,0 females living, there were but
66, TAI males living. THE females avoid
our late unreasonable labor, our heavy sup
pers, and hard drinking: they escape our
accidents, and the thousand peril which
beset the path only Of an outdoor laboring
population. In this way, spite Of tier
few births. they generally cutnumber us
on the censts. Fifty years ago, and now,
in Great Britain. there are thirty-ohe hv-
ing females to thirty males, and so many
of our sex are away 10 the wars. treading
the deck, climbing the mast, and messing
in the forecastIes, that in the United King
doms there were twentyone females at
home TO twenty males. The disparity IN
the sexes at home is still greater IN Scot
land, where, when the sexes mean TO be
represented at a gathering, there
are fitty-iiye females TO every fifty men.-
According to the census of Great Britain
in 1851, there was to be found at the bar
racks one female for every five males. AT
the work -hsuses the sexes were about
equally represented, there being about
So 7s6 of each. In the prisons, the males
were nearly three to one Of the females,
being but 1866 of the latter in them all
e We are born to go astray," but not IN
pairs. In the commission OF crime there
is but one female in every company OF four
rogues. Females were in the ma ority IN
the lunatie asvlums, there being II ,26l OF
them, and 6,153 Of the sterner sex. Lies
troubles fall so iast-iastcr upon them than |
upon us--we do not wonder that more OF
theln are deprived Of reason. Theirs is
more delicate organization. Watts speaks
OF a man as "a hap of thousand strings
Woman has at least dozen rdded strings
the music she makes requires at least that
additional number Of leger lines.
We should suppose that the hospitals
would show an excess Of female inmates.
But there we are mistaken. The males
are 5 ,S93 the females 5,754 aud, in 9TH
er charitable institutions the males were
nearly fifty per cent, more numerous than
the females. So these light clippers stand
stormy seas better than your old hulks,
and are more likely to gain an ofing,
while the latter are being towcd into port
lor repairs.
But, strangely enough, our late census
makes an excess of males in the United
States. Ofwhites, between the ages o.
Is and 90. and between the ages OF 70 and
100, the females are in the majority. Al
other ages, the males exceed. In lsoo,
there were here 100 males to 953 females,
in 1850, 100 males to 95. So the other
sex is increasing upon ours, though they
are not yet up to the British ratio. 1t be-
hoves US all TO be respectful to them; :hey
may master us yet.