The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-15
The AGE OF MARRIAGE
CoNJUGAL STATISTICS SHOWN BY
CENSUS.
HOW THE STATES DIFFER.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LEADS IN
MAIDENS.

Have More WidcSvers-Texas Has
5,s16 Divorced Women, Leading
All other States-IIIinois Leads in
Divorced Men-Census shows 3,7S5
Married Girls and 647 Married.
Boys Under 10, with 1876 widows
and 3S WidOwers Under That Age.
washington, D. c., Sept. H.-When
the census enumerators made their
rounds they found in the United States
667 boys under Is years of age who
were married.
This is one of the interesting facts
disclosed by the census report on the
conjugal condition of the inhabitants
of the United States. There were 1886
married girls under Is years of age.
The infant widowers under Is number
cd 3S, and infant widows 126. There
were divorced boys and 30 divorced
girls under Is. New York and Penn
sylvania led in the number of boy hus-
bands, each having A. Texas led in
the number of girl wives, with 347.
The proportion of young women who
are married is greatly in excess of
the number of young men, as the fig
ures show that of the total number of
males between the ages of a15 and 10
years, only one per cent. are married,
while of the females of the same ages
1919 per cent. were married. More
men are married between the ages OF
% and 30 than at any other age while
more women are married between the
ages of 20 and 25. The figures show
that il Il woman reaches the age of SIS
without being married, her chances
become very slim.
The figures show that there were in
the United States 27,S49,761 married
persons. or 36.5 per cent. of the total
population. The married males num-
bered 14,OO3,798 or 35.9 per cent.
of the total male population The
married females numbered 1885, 1853, or
97.2 per cent. of the entire female pop
ulation. The excess of married men
over married women is due largely to
the fact that many foreigners who
come to the United States leave their
families behind them. OF the males
10 years of age and over, 54.5 per cent.
were married, and of the females of
10 years and over $50 per cent. were
married.
Illinois Marrying Men.
In proportion to the male popula-
ton more men get married in Illinois
than in any other state in the Union,
the percentage of married men to the
total number of males Is years of age
and over in that state being SPIT.
Though the number of women in the
newly settled states and territories
of the West is less in proportion than
in the Eastern states, the women who
go West have a better chance of get
ting husbands. Oklahoma is the best
place for women who are looking for
husbands. OF the total female popu-
lation in that territory 696 per cent.
were married when the census was
taken. OF all the places under the
jurisdiction of the United States, how
ever, the Ha Haiian Islands would
seem to be the paradise of the hus-
band-hunter, for 77.9 per cent. of all
the women in he island were mar
ried.
The largest percentage of single
men in the United States proper was
in Wyoming, where 5S.2 per cent. were
reported unmarried. That, in spite of the
large percentage of married women
IN Hawaii the supply of raw material
for husbands in those islands has not
been exhausted is shown by the fact
that 59.7 per cent. of the men on the
Islands were reported unmarried.
1t is popularity supposed that there
are more old maids in New England
than in any other part of the country.
returns showed that 1872 per cent of
the women in the District of Columbia
We're unmarried, while in Massachu-
sets, which ranks second, 37.4 per
cent. We're married.
New England Men Do Not Remarry
Whether the women die younger in
New England than in any other part
OF the country, or whether New Eng
ldhd men do not remarry after the
death of their first wives, is not shown
by the census returns, but the three
states of Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont, led all the others in the pro-
portion of widowers, with 6.3 per cent.
edch. There are not only more maiden
ladies' in the District of Columbia than
anywhere else in the United States in
proportion to the population, but the
district also leads in the proportion of
WIDOWS, 16 per cent. of the women liv-
ing in the district having lost their
husbands by death. The high percent
age or unmarried women in the Dis
trlct of Columbia is due to the fact
mat the opportunities for employment
III the government service attract
young women to Washington from all
over the United States and to the fur
lher fact that when a young woman
gets a place in the government service
she Is independent, and is not disposed
10 marry the first man who offers him.
self
1t does not take a census report to
convince any one that there are a
great many widows in Washington.
women in widows garb are every
whefe conspicuous throughout the city.
MANY of them are in the government
service. Many others are the widows
vi army and navy officers, and there
- one section of the city given over
iidrgely to respectable but economical
Guarding houses, in every one of which
pne or more army or navy widows can
be found.
- There are 5.816 divorced women in
AeNas, more than in any other state
III the Union, seeming to show that
w ME more women marry young in
4eAas than in any other state, many
VI tnem soon tire of married life. The
Steatest proportion of divorced women,
noWeVer, was found in New Mexico
aIiu Arizona, per cent. of the women
IN each of these territories being d.
vorced. 1t is interesting to note, as
ussroWlhg some light on the character
~ female emigration to Alaska, that
10 per cent. of the women in that ter
tllory told the census enumerators that
uney nave been divorced.
a illlhols leads all the other states in
.ne number of divorced men, with a
totdl OF 6,lSl, though the largest per-
ssenlase OF divorced men was reported
ttoih Nevada, where 8 per cent Of
'ie men were recorded as divorced.