Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-23
THE SEXES NORTH AND SOUTH.
Some Valuable Statistics in Regard to Men
and Women.
Philadelphia Times.


Philadelphia Times.
In 1880 there were 80, 900 900 people in
the United States, and about eight hun
dred and eighty-two thousand more
| males than females. This was only be-
cause more males were born; the
| females live the longest. Of the CEN
| tennarians 400 were men and 2907 were
women. The boys start out nearly one
million ahead, and are in the ma
jority until the sixteenth year,
when the girls are n lit
tie more numerous. Sweet sixteen
is a numerous age, anyhow. After that
first one and then the other is in the ma
jority, the girls gradually gaining after
thirty-siX, and leaving the men far be-
hind after seventy five. To balance this
longevity of the females in almost every
state q few more boys are born; not many
more, but always a few. 1t is astOnish-
ing to see where the census gives thou
sands and hundreds of thousands of boys
and girls under one year old there are,
with one or two exceptions, always few
hundred more boys, and only few hun
dred more.
In only six of the forty-nine states and
territories are more girls born, and in
these states they are slightly in excess
from eleven to eighty. These exceptions
are Arizona, Delaware, Florida, LOuIsi-
ana, Montana and North Carolina. The
fact that the females are i'll the majority
in all of the original thirteen states but
Delaware and North Carolina, especially
in Massachusetts and New England, has
created the impression that there is some
thing i'll the climate or in the people that
produces more women than men. This
is q popular bat egregioUs error. In
Massachusetts there were in 1880 Ar
more boys than girls under one year of
age.
The males are in the minority in al
most all the Eastern states, because many
of the young men go West. All over the
West there is an excess OF men, and those
who are not foreigners have been with
drawn from the states further East IL
the new states and territories this is most
noticeable. In Idaho, for instance,
there are twice as many males as fe-
males, butIthe male infants are only lit
tie 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 removed.
Massachusetts shows the loss and Ohio
shows the gain. Another curious fact is
that while over the country more boys
than girls are born, in the cities aud
towns there are more girls. Between the
ages of five and seventeen inclusive there
are 1850 more girls than boys in New
York county, I708 more in Kings county,
2725 more i'll the city Of Baltimore, 1918
in Suffolk county (Boston), Mass. , 2003
more in Cook county (Chicago), III.
213l more in the city of st. Louis, 2071
more in Philadelphia 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
in all but twenty-six of them there are
more boys than girls. These twenty six
counties include the eleven large towns
and cities. Strange that not one of the
cities should be left cut. Stranger still,
the excess of girls is about in proportion to
population. Savannah leads off with 528
more girls than boys; Atlanta, 385; Au-
gusta, 303; Macon 1914; Columbus, l3I;
Gainesville, I22; Rome, 80; Athens,
80; Albany, 10; Griffin, II, and
Americas, Z. Savannah, though she
has a somewhat smaller population
than Atlanta, has a larger 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 anywhere
else Is this popularity of the French?
The facts present a fact worth studying
Are there fewer men in the cities than in
the country?