The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-14
WORLD WITHOUT MEN.
PAULINE PRY DISCUSSES THE NEW
WOMhy and HER PROGRESS.
Increasing As Money Earners-What VIII
Happen when the Spirit OF Home
Goes Gold Hunting.

Have you ever reckoned what WI" pe
the condition of the last man on ear'h9
can tell YOU. lie will be woman.
This is no idle speculation, but fact
deduccd from official figures. ] don't
pretend to say just when or how TINS
transformation-this amazonizing or hu-
manity-is going to take place But that
the process Is going on, CarroH ~
Wright, the superintendent OF the CENSUS
is my authority for stating.
The statistics of occupations ieceneiy
published by the government sho" 'n@'
i'm the United States there Is no business
pursuit of men which has not Deen IN
yaded by women Figures-cold. hard fs-
urcs-sboy however. that during the past
ten years the increase OF women IN All
s-ainful occupations is ass per cent. as
against 276i per cent, the increase OF
men. These statistics do not INCLUDE
ma;rimony in the list Of gainful occupa-
tions. so that every bit OF this advance
Of woman in the race for the mighty DOL
lar indicates the widening domain ana
accumulative power of modern FEMININE
independence. 49,,
Like every other star OF empire inns
Of vomans rises In the east and
GRADUALLY ,Iiumines the land beyond-in
the New England. central. southern ana
middle Statcr. varying, according 10
States from one-third to one-hat the
whole number Of money makers are "o-
men. out West from Montana 10 taii-
fornia. man IS comparatively on Top III
this commercial war Of the sexes. lie
| outnumbers the weaker vessels thirty
| three to one.
THR PRIMITIVE, cLISGISG srfLF'
On an aver. Sc. oic-half the women
OF all the eastern states attend 10 the'r
own business while IN the West, the prlin-
| tive. clinging style OF woman. who pre-
| smnablv remains content 10 get married
for a living. outnumbcrs the new woman
about ten Ia one.
That these figures are in support OF my
prophecy that the last man on earth WIN
| he q woman. there is this: You might
| sustain a hone OF mans future with the
fancy that the marvellous progress or
woman i'm the world Of business mere
| lv indicates that men are retiring from
| aainful pursuits to live on their lerlaie
relations: that history IS repeating IT,
| self and the condition OF the sexes ltld-
| tive TO labor Is reverting 10 that or the
sauaw and chieftain. But no such iona
notion NAV longer delude you cnce you
have the figures of the matter .he sah'
sad truth is, where a perfected clNlIla-
. tim has raised the market value OF Wo-
. ~.
creasing, producing power in the WoIld
outside the family. men with the fruits
of the same civilization are dying or.
You may call IL evidence II the law OF
the survival of the fittest. or anything
YOU please. but In that part Of the land
in which we take our greatest pride men
have disappeared from the face OF the
earth until in Massachusetts, the ex-
cess Of women numbers 5000 iapering
toward the cruder humanity of the West,
which remains relatively masculine IN
numerical strength.
NOT A LIMITED SPHERE.
The versatility OF woman is something
| Of a revelation as discovered by Federal
means.
One-ffth of all the agricultural labor
ers in the country are women, and there
| are 226 227 farmers and overseers There
| are 20 Of the so-called fair sex mining
coal-fancy their faces-and lo3 women
miners not otherwise specified. The po-
etic idea Of the frailty Of woman is
struck dead with a record Of thirty re-
male auarrymen and thirty-two WHO earn
living as woodchoppers. Then just to
| show the possibilities Of the sex and as
sure the world that no branch of bust
ness will suffer when the last man sinks
| In the process of evolution back to the
shadows of the missing link, there are
two women veterinary surgeons, lH bar
| tenders. q hunters, trappers, guides, and
| scouts. 1915 claim. commission real estate
| and Insurance agents, two whose gentle
voices compass the labors of an auction
eer 237 draymen and hackmen, "A host
lers. locomotive engineers and iiremen,
/ pilot. - sailors and So undertakers get
| ting their fair hands in on disposing or
~. Inc. Of
A further fact, as told by figures OF
the new woman, that is in the line Of
revelation, is that, as mans enemy In
! business. woman is relatively least to be
feared in the professional fields. where
there is the greatest gable about her
trlumphs.
OF a total 1Oi SOC physicians and sur
CONS, there are only 1855 women. In lit
erary and scientific pursuits the sexes
stand 1883 male. ?. 725 female. There are
but 20S women lawyers in the country
10 compete with 1922 men. There are
| /. 2Sj women clergymen. pitted against ST.
o6o men clergymen-if you don't mind the
| rhetoric Of that distinction between the
sexes frockod for good works.
SOME HOPE FOR THE MFN.
7; gives one engaged in the business n
now lease on life 20 know that there
are no more than SIS newspaper women
i'm the land, while 20.96l newspaper men
| form a conspicuous Instance OF the brave
endurance OF the doomed masculine ma
/ ton.
As teachers Of music and art and other
! branches women are three times as many
as mcn Yet in colleges and universities
The professors are 1861 men to 135 wo-
inen. which indicates that the higher ed
Ucauon Of men is not without promise
IN sustaining the lettering empire or
their sex in earning a livelihood.
Still, while as matters now stand, men
practically hold the fort aeainst women
| in their professions. this is not to say
! their condition is rot falling OF.
During the past ten years the adyanc-
! Ing female foe has increased in the pro-
| fess.ons 1874 per cent, while the cores
ponding increase of males is scarcely
mere than half that-iS53 per cent.
In every individual class Of occupation
! there is q similar advance OF the glory
OF women. the percentage of increase n
trade and transportation being the most
remarkabie. This is 2S.25 per cent. for
women as against 1.75 for men. This.
10 be sure. includes the increased num-
Der or fen ale stenosraphers clerks. book
keepers. &C, that have come TO be en-
ployed in trade Still there must be an
! increasing application of the energy of
men In these SAME chanrels, as in spite
Of the very much greater percentage OF
! increase OF women in all branches OF
trade and transportation, In the less
/ important ores. the increase OF lien in