The Helena independent., 1892-09-16
||RLs GETTING SCARCE.
here Are just q Million and = Half
Too Few Of Them In the
United States
I've Mon Out OF Every Hundred
Are Bound to Got !.
Left.
ns sf the Most Interesting Bulletins Yet
1ssusd From the Census Once -
Washington.

Tho most interesting bulletin issued by
DO new census shows that girl are getting
paros. II says:
1.-THE whole number Of males In tho
United States In 1900 il 81. o., $50. and the
Fhole number Of females 80,bb4,87O. For
hs United States ~ . whole. therefore,
here are for every 100000 males 95.2S0
emalss. Ten years before there we're SO. 5l4
smales 70 every 100. 600 malsA whils in 1870
here were 81, ,8Ol females to every 100000
males. The females exceed the males in
$50 to greater extent than i've per cent
n the District Of Columbia, Msssashu
etts and Rhode Island.
Suppose 100 mon wanted 70 gst married.
Z they were allowed but the ratio hvs Of
vivss. According to the previous census d
!irl and quarter TO = girl and third gets
ost every ten years. Whittier does this
kirl and . fraction go2
The whole number Of states and terri
Eo,ies whore the females exceed the males
in 1880 II eleven. % against seventeen In
[SS0. All the states and territories show
Ing an excess OF females over males in 1890
hre found in the North Atlantic and south
Atlantic divisions.
Ten years age there we're hvs states and
territories in which tho number OF females
were less than fifty per cent Of tbs males
Idaho. Nevada, Wyoming. Arizona and
Montana, whilssn nov there is no state or
territory whore the females do not repre-
Montana Just getting inside with bO.3S2 to
100, 600 males. This shows that many east
ern girls have gone west to save the nation.
The great number Of women clerks in
Washington is responsible for the ptsp0n-
deranoe Of the sex in tho District Of Col.
110,242 10 TO 100000. Massachusetts has
alwsys had more girls than bows, ths latter
migrating 40 soon ~ able to walk. Tie
girls cannot get away, 10 at the present
time they are 1O5, $40 to the even 100, 600 OF
the other sex. Rhode Island crowds the
the commoner clay. These states and the
district had two per cent moro Of girls ten
years ago, showing that many Of them have
met their fate.
Ono would naturally suppose that Utah
would show tho greatest prepondsrancs Of
but SO. 212 to 100000 men, mos enough for
the Christian ceremony of marriage.
New York state has girls enough yet to
70 around. but the pes csntaRe ID Decreasing
and soon there will be bareiy cnohgh. At
present the ratio 10 10l.4 480 to 100000 men,
anu Ill NEW Jersey fOI klElU hFO lGlU ONcE
af.er the 100000 Of both sexes have become
half that number by ministers fees.
The other states in which the men. bows
and boy babies are in the minority are Con-
nectiout. New Hampshire, Maryland. Viz
ginia, North and South Carolina. Bat
favored states the males being in exosss
elsewhere.
The states in which the female element
represents 96 per cent Of tho male are AZ
follows: Louisiana. Alabams. Georgia.
Maine. Mississippi, tennessee, Ohio. Penn
sylvania. Kentucky. Delaware. Vermont.
Indiana and West Virginia.
From 80 to 95 per cent of its softer ele-
ment as compared with 100 per cspt OF
male population, the states Of Illinois.
Florida, Missouri, Wisconsin, Arkansas,
Iowa. Michigan and Texas can claim.
Nebraska and South Dakota the girls are
thom to match 100 of the tougher nber.
The states and territories whei . girl
can feel that she is 200 per cent above par
are North Dakota, Oklahoma. Califo. mia.
ington, Nevada. Wyoming and Montana.
In these latter divisions girls are wofully
scarce, and from 21. 900 to $4,000 men out OF
every 100. 600 are bachelors by the force of
circumstances. In nineteen states and ter
ritoriss the girls have gained in ten years,
but in twenty-nine states aud territories
they have lost. N.
While New York states population has
increased there has been relative decrease
of girls to tho extent of 1,4O3. Illinois has
lost three maidens fair; Utah is 5000
shorter. The states which have gained in
female populstion are Arizona, nearly 20
600; Colorado, Dakota, Idaho and Montana.
the newer parts of the country, which
proves that the girls srs taking Horace
Grseley's advice.