Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-29

Like every other star OF empire, tnlS OF
woman's rises in the east and gradually
illumines the lanu beyond-in the New Eng
land central. southern and middle states,
varying according to states, from one-third
to ,one-half the whole number of money
makers are women. Out west, from Mon
tana to California, man Is comparatively
on top in this commercial war of the sexes.
He outnumbers the weaker vessels thir
ty-three to one
The Primitive, Clingins Style.
On an average, one-half the women of all
the eastern states attend to their own busi-
ness, while in the west the primitive,
clinging style of woman, who presumably
remains content to get married for a liv-
ing, outnumbers the new woman about ten
to
That these figures are in support of my
prophecy that the last man on earth will
be a woman there is this: You might sus-
tain hope of mans future with the fancy
the world Of business merely indicates that
men are retiring from gainful pursuits to
live on their female relations; that history
Is repeating itself and the condition of the
sexes relative to labor is reverting to
that of the squaw and chieftain. But no
such fond notion may longer delude you
once you have the figures of the matter.
The sad, sad truth is, where a perfected
civilization has raised the market value of
woman, permitting her a constantly in
creasing producing power in the world out
side the family, men with the fruits of
the same civilization are dying off. You
may call 1t evidence of 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 excess of women
numbers $1,000, tapering toward the cruder
humanity of the west. which remains rel
atively masculine in numerical strength.
Not a Limited Sphere.
The versatility of woman is something of
revelation as discovered by federal
means.
One-ftfth Of all the agricultural laborers
in the country are women, and there are
226,227 farmers and overseers. There are
219 of the so-called fair sex mining coal
fancy their faces-and 1873 women miners
not otherwise specified. The poetic idea of
the frailty of woman is struck dead with
a record of thirty female Quarrymen and
thirty-two who earn a living as woodchop-
pers. Then lust to show the possibilities
of the sex and assure the world that no
branch of business 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,
14I bartenders, 81 hunters, trappers, guides
and scouts, 4,S75 claim, commission, real
estate and insurance agents, two whose
gentle voices compass the labors of an
auctioneer. 237 draymen and hackmen, "a
hoStlerS, locomotive engineers and fire.
men, 1 pilot, 20 sailors and IS undertakers
getting their fair hands in on disposing of
the remains of evanescent man.
A further fact, as told by figures of the
new woman, that is in the line of a reve-
lation, is that, as mans enemy in business.
woman is relatively least to be feared in
the professional fields, where there Is the
greatest gabple about her triumphs.
OF a total 1O4,So3 physicians and sur
geons there are only 1865 women. In lit
erary and scientific pursuits the sexes stand
2 h,1t
women lawyers in the country to compete
with S9422 men. There are 1926 women
clergymen pitted against 81, 060 men clergy
men-if you don't mind the rhetoric of that
distinction between the sexes frocked for
good works.
Some Hope for the Men.
1t gives one engaged in the business a
new lease on life to know that there are
no more than SSS newspaper women in the
land, while 2O.961 newspaper men form a
conspicuous instance of the brave endur-
ance of the doomed masculine nation.
AS teachers of music and art and other
branches women are three times as many
as men. Yet in colleges and universities
the professors are 1857 men to 1876 women,
which indicates that the higher education
of men is not without promise in sustain
ing the tottering empire Of their sex in
earning livelihood.
Still, while as matters now stand, men
practically hold the fort against women in
the professions. this Is not to say their
condition Is not falling off. During the
past ten years the advancing female foe
has increased in the professions 1884 per
cent, while the corresponding increase of
males is scarcely more than half that
1853 per cent
In every individual class of occupation
there is similar advance of the glory of
women the percentage of increase in trade
and transportation being the most remark
able This is % per cent for women as
against LIS for men. This, to be sure, in
cludes the Increased number of female
stenographers, clerks, bookkeepers, &c,
that have come TO be employed in trade
Still there must be an increasing applica-
ton of the energy of men in these same
channels, as in spite of the very much
greater percentage of increase of women in
all branches of trade and transportation in
the less important ones, the increase of
men in each instance considerably outnum-
bers that of women.
Thus appears another reason why the
spirit of man no longer should be proud.
He is not only diminishing in numbers in
the business activities of the world, but
what there is left of them, is of a quality
that commands not high, but lowly places.
The World without Men.
There are women who would take these
census figures I have shown. and after
using them to draw diagram of the doom
of man, would just settle back to enjoy
the picture without a thought of who is to
blame for it. But thank just providence,
I am not that sort, and I want to point out
to you that when the day dawns that shall
light up not a man left on earth to love,
marry, divorce or in any way deceive, wo-
men will have nobody but themselves to
reproach for the dull level of the life before
them.
The least assertion Of independence on
the part of woman is a deadly blow aimed
at the vital part of the whole human struct-
is n d.