The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-12
FACTS ABOUT MARRIAGE.

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Carroll d. Wright, superintendent
of the census CT 1880, reviews in The
Forum for June the statistics of sex,
marriage and divorce.
1t will surprise many persons to
know that there r more males than
females in the total population of this
country. The exact figures in 1890
were 32,O67, $50 males and 30. 554, BIC
females.
Contrary to another popu' ar impress
sion, it appears, too, that married
persons form a larger percentage of
the total population of this conntry
than they do Of European countries.
There are more married people, too,
In u large cities than in our farming
districts, relatively to the whole num-
Der of the inhabitants.
FAC OF interest to young people
contemplating matrimony arc that
Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Cleveland
are the American cities where most
marrying is done: picsumably, the
conditions there are more favorable
TO the maintenance of homes than in
san francisco and Boston, which are
pcopled by fcwc" married folks and
more single ones than any other cities
in the Union.
Ireland and Scotland show The
largest number of bachelors and spin
tors and the smallest number of hus-
bands and wives of all countries
furnishing states. Who would have
thought that to be the case?
1T Will shattcr another generally ac-
copied opinion to be told by MIR.
Wright, that the total number Of
divorced persons in this country is
very small-amounting to only about
onc.thlrd OF | per cent. of tho total
adult population. Another analysis
shows that there was but ono divorced
person to every lS5 married persons
living in the United States in 1890.
Mr.. Wright's article affords Il great
variety Of other interesting Informs
ton, and, as a study Of the conjugul
conditions OF The republic, it is ct
surfing on many vital points. Marriage
is evidently not q failure in America.
The Atlanta Journal Il y that Mr..
Wright has been called on to explain
some puzzling figures in his recent
report. Mr.. Wright is n famous
statistician, and his reports based on
the census returns are read and studied
with great interest. Still, his state
ment that there are $4,000 moro
married men than married womon in
the United States is provoking CON
eiuoiaDie ulScuSSli'n. III Is generally
supposed that there is q married wO-
to correspond with every married
man. Mr.. Wright's figures arc all the
more surprising because widowers and
divorced men are accounted for in
another table.
In referring to his statement That
our married men outnumber our
women by 377, 900, Mr.. Wright
admits that at first glance II seems
but assures us that it
" can be readily accounted for" His
explanation is that many of the men
who immigrate to us from other
countries leave their wives behind.
The force of this explanation is some
what impaired by Mr.. Wright's figures
Tor other countries, which show that
there are more husbands than wives
In England, Scotland, ireland, Ger
many, Astria, Hungary. Norway.
Sweden, Belgium and tho Neither
lands.
Where, then, do our surplus married
men come from? Where have the
$4,000 extra married men in this
country left their wives? 1t is sur
gested that this is q proper subject
Tor international investigation. AS
the New World World remarks, THE
bi-metallic sinks into secondary siypi- |
compared with tho bi-marriauc
We must maintain the double
standard In the worlds connubial cur