The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-12

cess of 21o.ss9 females in American cities in 1900. the excess of 1.51s.559
 males in country districts In 1890 be-
 came an excess of a,s4o,2s0 males in 1900. Or, expressing the facts in ratios. of each 1000 inhabitants of such cities In 1890. 800 were males and in 1900, 4s7. l wcio males: of each 1000 inhabitants l living outside these cities in 1890. 51s
 males and in 1900. 62o were males.
 The difference thus in the number of
 males or of females between an aver
 age thousand of city and of country , population in 1890 was 19f and in 1900, This conclusion Is not materially modified when a more accurate method is employed and a comparison made between the figures in 1890 and 1900 for the same list of cities, namely, all
 which had at least 2.500 inhabitants at each date.
 A marked and increasing dissociation
 of the sexes between city and country
 like that in the United States has been noted also in the leading countries of
 western Europe.
 On the other hand, there is a large
 excess of males in the principal cities of Russia and India. and in Hongkong
 and Manila.
 This excess of females in the cities
 Of western Europe and eastern United
 States is probably due mainly to the greater opportunity for women to find employment in those cities aud to their migration cityward in consequence. But even among children under : years of age, a slight difference ap- pears between cities having at least 2S,000 inhabitants and the rest of the country. In such cities there are sea | males to each 1000 children; outside of them there are S0s males to each 1000 children. These figures support but do not prove the theory that the proportion of male children at birth Is slightly
 less in cities than in country. Women Live Longer. Notwithstanding the great excess of
 males in the total population of the
 United States, there are two periods of | life at which the reported number of 1 females is greater One extending l from about Sa years of age to the end | of life. Is probably due mainly to the | longer average life. of woman; the | other. from 1s to 25. is probably ap- 1 parent rather than real. and due main | iy to the greater number of women
 whe claim, erroneously. to belong to | this age period.
 | Among the negroes there are few | more females than males: among the l Indians. a few more males than females. The marked excess of males among whites and Mongolians Is doubt less due to the influence of immigra- | tion.
 Among the Chinese said to have been born in the United States. nearly three-fourths are male, an, incredible | proportion. which is probably due to | the false return of several thousand im- | migrant Chinese as native in the effort to elude the provisions of the exclusion laws.
 At each of the last six censuses there has been an excess of males among native white population ranging, at | each census except that of 1870, from one-duarter to three-quarters of mill
 lion. These figures are probably | swollen by an indeterminate amount as result of the return of a certain number of foreign born as native. In 1900, among the 13,3s7.147 persons ! attending school, 499 in each i 1000 were male and 501 female: in 1890, in the | same class, 510 per 1000 were male and | 490 female.
 Among the whites attending school there Is still slight excess of males among the Indians and Mongolians | very marked excess of males. The | slight excess of females in the total l population reported in 1900 as attend | ing school is due to very decided ex- cess of females among the negro
 school attendants.