The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-30
FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
Some Peculiar Facts About Sex Among
Emigrants.

8Om6 fecullAT EacUS ABOUT Sex Among
Emigrants.
The publication of articles on the
subject of European inning alton into
the republic of Venezuela has called
attention again to one of the curiosi-
ties of emigration which has never Deen
clearly explained and remains there
fore something of an enigma. 1t is
well known that the foreign immigra-
ton into this country from the nor TIL
ern nations of Europe-Great Britain.
Germany, Russia and Scandinavia
have, like the early colonists from the
same countries, been pretty evenly di-
.vided between the two sexes. The
emigration from the southern coun-
tries of Europe, on the contrary, SPAN,
Italy, Greece and Portugal, has been
chiefly male, and to this fact, perhaps,
more than to any other, is due the in
termarriage of emigrants and natives
i'll South and Central America, and the
general absence of such marriages in
North America, particularly in the
United States and Canada. The cmi
grafton from Ireland. for instance. for
many years, has been more largely
made up of female than of male emil
grants, while from Italy, on the other
hand, the proportion for period of
more than 20 years is, male, rs; female,
25.
The total number of emigrants to the
United States from 1915, the first year
of large emigration, to 1895, a period
covering half century, was in excess
of 100000, and more than 40 per cent.
was female, whereas the large Spa nish
and Italian emigration to South Aneri-
ca has been almost exclusively male.
AS this matter is not one of early oc-
currence, but continues at present
1.-THE census figures resuming their Old
dimensions since the improvement of
the times), 1T might be supposed that
the number of women in those Euro
pean countries from which there is
and has been practically no female
emigration, would be much larger than
in those countries which have suffered
q steady diminution through the emf
grafton of persons of both sexes. Rut
the contrary of this is shown by the
figures of the Almanach de Gotha In
Italy, from which there is very ;;ttle
female emigration, the number of fe-
male inhabitants is actually less than
the male inhabitants--in the ratio of
20 to 100. In Roumania it is 03 to 100.
On the other hand, i'll Great Britain,
from which the emigration of women
has been continuous, they outnumber
the men in the proportion of 104 to 100.
In all the other countries of Europe
from which there is and has been a
large female emigration ma jorlty Ct
the inhabitants are women. In Rus
STA the proportion is 1912 women to 100
men, in Germany 104 women to 100
men, in Sweden LOG women to 100 men;
and in Denmark and Austria 1913 wom-
en- to 100 men. In France and Belgium
the equality of proportion between the
sexes is evenly preserved, Thus, in
France there are 1904 women to 1000
men, and in Belgium the difference is
smaller, there being 1901 women to
1000 men.
A still more peculiar manifestation
of the same paradox, if it may be so
considered, is found in the official re-
ports recently published in England
of the emigration from that country
during the last quarter of century.
In 1860 4S1a per cent. of the popula Lion
of Great Britain was male and 511e per
cent. was female. Between 1860 and
1870 the female emigration was the larg-
er, yet by the census of 1871 the female
population increased the more rapidly.
From 1870 to 1850 the male emigration
was the larger, but the female ropu-
lation increased the more rapidly.-N.
Y. Sun.