The morning call., 1894-05-08
OUR CONJUGAL CONDITION.

Mr.. Carroll D. Wright has just issued an
extra census bulletin containing statistics
of the coDjugal condition Of the people as
they stood on June l. 1890. On that day
there were 60, 322 $50 people in the country.
OF these 81, 139, 600 were single, or 1923 per
cent of the whole 90. 33I. 600 married, or
1856 of the whole; 100000 widowed, be-
ing 474 of the whole, and 120.996 divorced,
being 0.20 of the whole. Among single
persons children too young to marry were
included. The actual number of males in
The country at large was 32.067, eco, of
whom 60. % per cent were single, and 81 81
per cent married. The total number OF
females was 80. 554. 900. OF whom 1924 per
cent were single and Sc. Il married. Divid-
ing the whole population into native
whites of native parents, native whites of
foreign parents and foreign-born whites,
we find the conjugal conditions varying.
The percentage of foreign born whites
who are single is 30. 76 per cent, as against
1917 0fGative whites of white parentage,
while the percentage of foreign whites
who are married is 57.95 per cent, as
against o. AZ OF the native whites of foreign
parentage and Sc 23 of native whites of
native parentage. The explanation, of
course, is that our migrants are chiefly
of mature age and consist largely OF mar
ried persons.
Classifying the people according to age
we find that among the males 1887 per
cent were married under a. 52.6S per cent
under 90, 7l.2S per cent under 81 and 81 %
under "a; while among the females only 9.49
per cent married under 10, 46 73 per cent
under "a, 71.36 per cent under 20 and nearly
SO per cent under 81 Most men marry al
or shortly after they reach the age of 80
and most girls between "a and 80. This
tallies with the English vital statistics,
which show that the average at which
men marry Is so and girls &c. AS the
table comparing the married and the
single is misleading in consequence of its
including non-marriageable children,
table was prepared excluding all persons
under the age of 90 and including all per-
sons Of 30 and over. This showed 80. S22.-
600 persons. II. $4,000 males and IL, 293, 900
females. OF the males 63S3 per cent were
married and 1895 single; of the females
6635 per cent were married and 1892
single. Thus the old bachelors outnum-
bered the old maids.
Coming down to our own State 1t ap-
pears that of the 700,059 males in Califer-
MIA only 216 029 are married and 455t250 are
single, while 1856 are divorced. OF the
sos, OIL females in the State .62l
are married, 272. 694 are single ana 1898
divorced. AS the figures include chill
dren below the marriageable age
they cannot be used as the basis
of a formula; but unless there is a
glaring disproportion between the sexes in
the growing generation the number Of men
who are unpI divided with wives largely
exceeds the number of women who are
unprovded with husbands, and no girl need
despair of entering in Ito the state Of matri-
mony. Counting in the children. who will
presently grow up into men and women,
there are nearly 20G, 600 more males than
females in California. and thus sooner or
later every girl will have her pick of a
husband.
Coming down to this city it appears
that there are 169 800 males here to 129,197
females, or. in other words. an excess of
10000 males. Our Chinese population.
chiefly OF adult males, accounts for about
half the surplus of males-still the male
balance remains large. OF the males
51,244 are married. of the females AZ, ,465,
leaving nearly 1000 who have somehow
lost their wives. The single males num-
Der III, S4S, the single females 70563
Assuming the usual proportion to exist
between persons of manageable age and
persons below that age we may conclude
that there are in San Francisco some $4,000
girls who are open to conviction. and some
5000 males who are content to vegetate
In celibate misery. The proportion of
unmarried persons of both sexes is much
larger in New York, where the volume of
European immigration is discharged. but
not so great in Chicago. This may be ex-
planned by the unexamped fascination of
the girls who grow up by the lakeside.
The men cannot help marrying.