The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-06
Men. women and matrimony.

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Among the new departures made by
! the census people in 1890 was the gather
! ing of statistics of conjugal conditions;
/ that is, the number Of single, married,
widowed and divorced persons in the
/ United States, from which 10 calculate
/ the proportion of each class to the total
/ of population. The census takers gath
/ cred the facts, sure enough, and the con-
illusions shown thereby have been tabu-
lated and printed in census bulletin No.
SO, recently issued.
The conclusions reached by the census
clerks from the data furnished them may
be, as Senator Sheaman says some Of his
statements are substantially correct"
but on the face of the returns some
peculiar things are shown. For instance,
the bulletin says that in 1890
there were 1909 more married
men than married women in the
United States, and 3,4O3 more married
women than married men in the state of
Georgia. Now the question arises, who
were these men and women married tor In
the country, as a whole, there were more
husbands than wives, and in Georgia
more wives than husbands. The widowed
and divorced people cannot be
counted upon to make up the dis
crepancy, for the census deals
with them also, and finds that there were
in the United States 1861 1872 more
widowed and divorced women than
widowed and divorced men, and in the
state of Georgia So pa more widowed and
divorced women than widowed and
divorced men; so that if all the widowed
and divorced people had been counted
with the married people, still the totals
would not have balanced.
The discrepancies, however, may be &C.
counted for by the facts that there were
in the United States at the time
of the taking of the census
thousands of married immigrants
who had left their wives abroad, and in
the states hundreds-maybe thousands
of persons whose conjugal partners were
in some other state or country at the
time of the enumeration. In 50 large
floating population as that of the United
States, it would be impossible to SPOT
husband for every wife, or a wife for
every husband, unless the husband and
wife always floated together, which is
not the case.
In Georgia, according to the bulletin,
there were in 1890, 298, 594 married men
and 500, 097 married women; 1928 wild
overs and SO, 1875 widows; $40 divorced
men and 1851 divorced women. These
statistics would seem to show that the
Georgia women get married quicker,
live longer and get divorces with more
ease than the men.
An interesting feature of the bulletin
is that showing the ages at which men
and women marry. Between the ages of
IS and 10 years only 80 per cent. of the
males were found to be married, while
| the percentage for the females was g. 40.
Between the ages of 20 and "a, less than
| one-fifth of the males are married and
more than one-half of the females. After
she passes the oath year of
her age, the woman's chances for getting
married BEGIN to diminish, and with such
rapidity, according to the bulletin, that
by the time she is thirty, the chances are
about as one to five that she will never
marry.
Men re-marry more frequently than
women The bulletin shows a greater
| proportion of widowed women than of
men, beginning with the ages of 10 to 49,
| The difference, only slight at first, in
| creases rapidly until the proportion Of
widowed women reached nearly per
cent. between the ages of 80 and "a years
| The men never got above 80 per cent.