Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1880-06-10
LOOKOUT FOR THE CENSUS MAN.
Questions Asked and Questions Rrguired
20 he Answercd--Thc Census Man Is a
Fraud in tho fand-- lookout for Him.

Questions AsEad and Questions ReGuired
20 he Ans'vered--Thc Census Man is a
Fraud in the fand--Iookeut for Him.
The following questions are not a
matter of choice with the enumera-
tors. They must be asked and an
swered, and the penalty for failure is
positive and heavy:
LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS.
1st. The name Of each person.
End, Color.
3rd. Sex.
4th. Age, if over one year.
5th. Relationship to the head of
the family, wife, son, daughter, etc.
9Th. Married or single.
9Th. Widowed or divorced.
8th. Profession, occupation or trade
OF each person, male or female.
9th. Number of months each per-
son has been unemployed during the
census year.
10th. Is the person visited sick or
well, if sick, the nature of disease
must be given.
l1th. Is the person blind, deaf,
dumb, idiotic, insane, manned, Grip
Piled, bed-ridden, Or otherwise dis
abled.
18th. Attended school within the
year.
18th. Cannot read.
18th. Cannot write.
18th. Place of birth.
10th. Place Of birth of the father
an'l mother of this person..
18th, Persons who have died with
II :ii1 census wear. with the sex, age,
cCior, occupation, month of death,
cause of death, how long resident
q this scouniy. where disease was
contracted, name CT attending ply
5ician.
18th. Il; insane, the name, resi-
t@nCe whether inmate of hospital or
asylum, age when first attacked, total
tune spent in asylum OR hospital.
18th. Deaf ,nutcs.
goth Homeless children.
21st. Inhabitants in jaiis or plis-
ons.
z2d. Pauper or INDECENT persons
IN poor houses Or asylums or board.
ed at public expense. .E"
Under the new rule they have 9
/ legal right to ask about five hundred
questions, but there Is such a thing
as census man going too far. 1t i.
we'll enough for defenseless families
to know where the line is drawn.
! No census man has right to dis.
pute woman when she gives hel
age. Under the law he can elevate
his eyebrows and exclaim: "Dld you
evers" when female supposed 10 bs
45 returns her age at 80, but he must
stop right there. He may wonder
TO himself where on earth all tht
grandmothcrs of this country hav,
suddenly slipped to, but he musn'
wonder to you.
No census imam has legal right tt
ask a woman if she is living with he
first, second Or third husband, O
whether she quarrcls more with th'
third than the first. The law sup
poses every family to be living il
peace and harmony, and the Unitet
States Government never takes an,
notice of a family row brought on b,
the hired girl being kissed in TIN
dark.
Under the law, no ccnsus-takcr ha:
any right to ask wife how man,
evenings in q week her husband is on
after Ii o'clock, or what is the sub
iect of her remarks when he slips in a
the side-door. This great and glOr
ious government has always heeI
conducted on the principle that clubs
lodges and societies were part OF it
foundation.
The law does not specify that tn
census man shall ask wife if sh
couldn't have done better by waitin!
for second offer. This information
is supposed to be cheerfully volun
teered, and is marked with big re,
OK" to signify the officials belle
that if she hadn't accepted the otfe
she did she would have died an oil,
maid.
A baby with the measles count
Just as much in law as one pallopin;
around berefooted in the front-yard
The law requires the census -taker t
: remark that your baby is the hand
soonest one in the ward. If he neg
; lects to do so he should be calle'
back.
For the benefit of wives who d.
their own housework and al
ashamed to have it known, blanks ar
furnished with heading whic
reads: "Is generally in the habit O
keeping four servants, but has jus
given her help vacation.
The new law is also very gcncrou
|, in another matter. The census take
may legally inquire who lives mex
door, but it is supposed that mos
women will fill out and sign the fo
, lowing: "Family named Blank; n
style about 'em; he wears a shabb
,, hat, and she never combs her hal
, until three O'Clock p. m. !; they hsy
! carriage, but L don't believe it
E paid for; they allow their children
throw stones at our dog, and perm
, them to play on mouth organs: 'the
say she has diamonds, but don
3 believe it; lots of callers, but pr'
, sumo they were there to collect bills.
Weekly Optic
!, Can't C. nj B. Thurman. of Tr0y