The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-08
the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.
PRECEDENCE IN SEX.

| PRECEDENCE IN SEX.
Are There Fewer Men in Cities Thar
in the Countryi
In an article on population the
Philadelphia Times says:
In 1880 there were $4,000 people
in this country, and about $4,000
more males than females. That
was only because more males were
born; the females live the longest.
Of the centenarians, ,409 were men
and 2,6O7 were women. The boys
start out nearly a million ahead and
are in majority until the sixteenth
year, when the girls are little more
numerous. Sweet sixteen is a nu-
merous age, anyhow. After that,
first one and then the other is in
the majority, the girls gradually
gaining after thirty-six and leaving
the men far behind after seventy
five. To balance this longevity of
the females, in almost every State
few more boys are born; not
many more, but almost always a
few. 1t is astonishing to see where
the census gives thousands and
hundreds of thousands of boys and
girls under one year old, there are
with one or two exceptions, always
few hundreds more boys, and only
few hundred more. In only six
Of the torty-nine States and Terri
tories are more girls born, and in
these States they are very slightly
in excess from eleven to eighty.
These exceptions are Arizona, Della
ware, Florida, Louisiana, Montana
and North Carolina. The fact that
the females are in the majority in
all the original thirteen States but
Delaware and North Carolina, es-
pecially in Massachusetts, and New
England, has created the impress
sion that there is something in the
climate or in the people that pro-
duces more women than men. This
is popular but egregious error. In
Massachusetts, there were in 1880,
438 more boys than girls under one
year of age. The males are in the
minority in almost all the Eastern
States becaAse many of the young
men go West. All over the West
there is an excess of men, and those
who are not foreigners have with
drawn 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 in
fants 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 England re-
moved. Massachusetts, shows the
loss and Ohio the gain. Another
curious fact is, that while all over
the country more boys than girls
are born, in cities and towns there
are more girls. Between the ages
of five and seventeen inclusive,
there are 1850 more girls than boys
in New York county, l, ,7O8 in Kings
county, 2,725 more in the city of
Baltimore, 1913 in Suffolk county,
Massachusetts,, (Boston), 1909
more in Cook county. (Chicago),
Illinois, 2,131 more In the city Of
St. Louis, 1871 more in Philadel-
phia county and 1888 more in the
parish of Orleans. All these cities
except New Orleans are in States
where more boys than girls are
born. In Georgia there are 1877
counties, and all but 26 Of them
there are more boys than girls.
These 26 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 in proportion to popula-
ton. Savannah leads off with 528
more girls than boys, Atlanta 285,
Augusta 3O4, Macon 154, Columbus
121, Gainesville 1913, Rome so, Ath-
ems SO, Albany Is, Griffin II and
Americas 7. Savannah, though she
has somewhat smaller population
than Atlanta, has large excess of
girls. This seems to be peculiar to
old cities. 1t is so with Baltimore,
New Orleans and New York. The
excess is greater in New Orleans
than any place else. L. this pc
culiarity of the French? The facts
present question worth studying.
Are there fewer men in the cities
than in the country?
He Never Struck His Children.
II have never struck my two chill