Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-08-06
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In popular tradition it has for a long time been held that there was an army If spinsters 0,000 strong in the good old Commonwealth of Massachusetts, md they all yearned for husbands and obtained none. Popular tradition in this case is nearly correct The stern figures of the census show Shat the exact number of superabundant females in the Bay State is 66,062. Further contemplation of the census tables reveals other facts concerning the relative number of males and females ot the human kind-facts that are striking in their way. The total number of males in the country is 25, ,52O,5 ,584. The fe- males number 9sS, 29S less. This is sad to record-on behalf of those who think, with Mir. Thomas Otway, Oh, woman lovely woman nature made thee 70 tenn perman wehad been brutes without you
 or Is it pleasant to record on behalf oi those who think, with the same Otway. that woman is destructive, damnable, deceitful woman that there is de- crease in percentage under the census oi 1870 of l ,2S2 on the 100, 900. Pennsyl- vania, 1t may be remarked, contains 2,l36, 635 males and g, 516 more females, which is an increase of 163 on 100, ,o0o over the census of 1870. Taking the sections of the country it is seen that in every New England State, except Yer
 mont, the females outnumber the males, aud the excess of the latter in the Green Mountain State is only 1890. In the
 Middle States the females outnumbel the males except in Delaware. In tho ! Southern States the same preponder 4=...,,,a .,f fA,-asl~. 2-.ios fs a1so seen
 except in West Virginia, Florida, Texai and Mississippi. It is noticeable that il
 the District of Columbia there are ovel 10, ,000more females than males; but this ii
 dou otless due to the fact that the Treas
 ury Department is in Washington . When tue West is reached the propor
 tions change. In every Western Stat
 the males are far in excess of the females
 For instance, in Ohio they outnumbe
 the females by 30,091; in Indiana, b,
 i3,090; in Kansas, by 77,4s4 in Ne
 sada, by 21, 761, and So on. From thi
 statement of the preponderance of tn
 sexes in the sections named it will b
 seen that the females are in nexcess in tn
 older and more firmly settled portion
 of the country; while further west tn
 relations are sought the greater will tn
 excess of males be found, and it reache
 it's maximum in those States and Terri
 tories where settlement is most recen
 md the hardships of life greatest. Dan
 el Webster's statement that New HamI
 hire was good place to be born in be
 cause it was good place to emigrat
 from explains, in great measure, tn
 .lisproportion of the sexes in New El gland, where the manufactures attrat
 female labor, while the males folio Horace Greeley's advice. The Sout , presents the best example of the no , nal state of the sexes. It has, compa, [ 4tively speaking, few manufactorie ,mmigrationS for emigration. and thel t the sexes more nearly equal. the f. | males bein tightly in excess. In son B of the Sout 'n States, however, the il l crease of population since the las
 census eeable, and it is in the se 3 tions wRseh have attracted settlers an 3 capital that it is most 80. Anoth, noint to note is the increase of female 3 ln some of the Western States-an il ! srease of over 8 per cent. in Arizoni l ! in California, Is in Montana, 5 3 Kansas and in Dakota, thus showir | that they are becoming quieted dow
 into settled life-a married life, so 5 eak.-Philadelphid Times