The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-10
SEX AMONG EMIGRANTS.
The Proportion Of Women Among
the New Arrivals.
1omA 1tx1Age 11sts Dro0ght Out ~
O0eaal 0tatisttce-CouAtFlos In which
There Are 4oeo Women
Thar 2oa. x

subject of European immigration into
the republic Of Venezuela has called
again to one of the curiosi-
ties of emigration which has never been
clearly explained and remains there
fore something Of an enigma. 1t il
well known that the foreign imnssra-
ton into this country from the north
ern nations of Europe-Great Britain,
GERMANY, Russia and Scandinavia
have, like the early colonists from the
same countries, been pretty evenly di-
yided 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
in South and Central America, and the
general absence of such marriages in
North America. particularly in the
United States and Canada The emil
grafton from Ireland, for instance. for
many years, has been more largely
made up of female than OF male emf
grants, while from Italy, on the other
land, the proportion for = period OF
more than go years is, male. Is; female,
Is.
TIL. total number of emigrants to the
United States from 1s45, the first year
OF large emigration. to 1895. period
covering half a century, was in excess
of l6, ,oOO, 900, and more than 40 per cent.
was female, whereas the large Spanish
and Italian emigration to South Ameri-
ca has been almost exclusively male
AZ this matter is not one OF early oc-
currence, but continues at present
(the census figures resuming their old
dimensions since the improvement OF
the times), it might be supposed thai
the number OF women in those Euro.
pean countries from which there Il
and has been practically no female
emigration, would be much larger than
In those countries which have suffered
a steady diminution through the emf
grafton of persons Of both sexes. Ru'
the contrary of this is shown by the
| figures of the Almanach de Gotha. IL
| Italy, from which there is very LITTLE
| female emigration, the number OF fe
| male inhabitants is actually less thai
| the male inhabitants--in the ratio
| 20 to 100. In Roumania it is 50 to 100
On the other hand, in Great Britain
from which the emigration OF womel
has been continuous. they outnumbe
the men in the proportion OF 1O4 to 1OO
In all the other countries of Europ
from which there is and has been
large female emigration majority C
/ the inhabitants are women. In Rus
sia the proportion is 102 women to 10
men, in Germany 1O4 women to 10
| men, in Sweden LOG women to 100 men
in Switzerland 1O4 women to 100 mer
and in Denmark and Austria 1C3 won
en- to 100 men. In France and Belgium
the equality of proportion between tn
sexes is evenly preserved. Thus. Il
France there are 1904 women to 100
men, and in Belgium the difference
! smaller, there being 1901 women t
1000 men.
A still more peculiar manifestation
/, of the same paradox. if it may be s
considered, is found in the official re
ports recently published in Englan'
of the emigration from that countr
during the last quarter of a century
In 1860 4Sk. per cent. of the popula Ito
of Great Britain was male and 5lhs pc
| cent. was female. Between 1860 an
1870 the female emigration was the larg
er, yet by the census Of 1871 the femal
| population increased The more rapidly
From 1870 to 1850 the male emigratio
was the larger, but the female ropu
lation increased the more rapidly.-N