The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-05-28
TOO MANY WOMEN.
A NOVEL PLAN TO INCREASE THE
NUMBER OF MEN.
The Problems os the Social Evil and
tho Employment of Women as Wage
Farmers Would Also be solved.

The one great reason why so many
women to-day are clamoring for what
they call their rights and are compe-
ting with men in the business world Is
because in every civilized country the
number of marriageable women ex-
ceeds that of manageable men. These
are the conclusions at which one is
bound to arrive after reading re-
markable work entitled Surplus of
Male Births and It's Biological Signifi
canoe" which has just been published
in Leipsc and the author of which Is
DR.. A. Rauber, a distinguished profess
sor of anatomy and we'll known wri-
ter on scientific subjects; and accord
ing to Edward Won Hartmann an emil
nent authority on philosophical and
ethical subjects, who speaks of this
book as one of the most notable works
of our time, there is another conclusion
at which the reader Is also bound to ar
rive--namely, that the only reason why
the social evil exists to-day Is because
there are more women in every civil
lized country than men, and that the
only way in which this evil can be Grad
icated is by increasing the number of
manageable men.
That this should be necessary seems
strange at first, since DR.. Rauber tells
US that the number Of male births ex-
ceeds that of female births among civil
liked nations by at least per cent. AS
rule then, more boys are born every
year than girls.
AT the moment of birth. however. the
boys thoubes begin Many are born
I II. e -.
ers are sickly and pass away in child
hood, and of the remainder not few
are cut off before they reach the age of
manhood. In word, it Is harder to
raise boys than girls, and, as a result
though the boys outnumber the girls in
infancy and childhood, the women out
number the men when both have ar
rived at a marriageable age.
The natural consequence, says the
scientist, is that women are not priced
as much as they should be- In this case
the usual law of supply and demand
rules, and the reason why so many wo-
men to-day have to fight hard for their
very existence IS because the supply of
women is far greater than the demands
for them. In an ideal monogamic soci-
ETY. there would be one woman for eve
ry man, and it is society like this that
DR.. Rauber would have us create. In
modern society, on the contrary there Is
more than one woman to every man,
and the result is that many women cam
not get husbands.
But what becomes of the women who
cannot get husbands?'
Sin polygamic communities" replies
Or. Hartmann, "they find homes in the
harems of potentates; in Catholic coun-
tries they go into converts and In Pro-
testant countries they were wont, up to
their homes with their nearest relatives,
for whom they worked, receiving in re-
turn board and lodging This condition |
of things came to an end, owing to the |
gradual dissolution Of family ties and |
the growth of factories, established for
the purpose of manufacturing many of |
the things which these women used
formerly to make at home. To-day |
these surplus women are obliged to |
earn their living away from home, and, !
if they are unable or unwilling to do |
that. they are exposed to poverty and |
to shame"
Now according to DIR. Rauber, there
Is no valid reason why the presena con-
dtion of affairs should continue, or, in
other words he expresses himself as be-
ing of the opinion that by the use of
proper scientific methods the number of
men in civilized countries can gradual
ly be made equal to that of women.
AS the first necessary step in this di-
rection he recommends that the utmost
possible care be taken of male infants
and he gives much sound advice to the
mothers of such children in regard to
their nurture during the perilous months
On infancy.