Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-09
SURPLUS WOMEN
ALARM GERMANY
Almost Million More Single Girls
Than Single Men in Empire
atlThis Time.
MANY WIDOWS AND DIVORCES
Total of Husbandless Women is Now
Two and Half Millions.
MATRIMONIAL PAPERS FLOURISH
Husbands Are Dictators and Suffers
Demand Cash.
KAISER IS LOSING his PREJUDICEs
Former Minister OF the Interior Count
POsadowsky Paints Gloomy Pic
ture of Condition of Poorer
Classes in Germany.
MANY WIDOWS AND DIVORCES
Total of Husbandless Women is Now
Two and Half Millions.
MATRIMONIAL PAPERS FLOURISH
Husbands Are Dictators and Suffers
Demand Cash.
KAISER IS LOSING his PREJUDICES
BY MALCOLM CLARKE


BERLIN. July &-(Special to The Bee -
There is an alarming surplusage OF women
In the empire. The country has $50. Ss3 more
single females than single men. There are
an additional 1.57s.0es widowed and d.
vorced women. The sum OF the husband
less rises, therefore. to 2.50OOo0. That is
why the German Is dictator; why there are
mere matrimonial newspapers in Germany
than anywhere else; why, finally. every
sutton demands. and gets. a substantial
might of many thousand marks al
though often he has himself not enough
to buy a hat
Wilhelm Losing Pretudfces.
The emperor has abandoned his strong
opposition to cremation. and It is an
nounced that in the future he will be rep
resented at the funerals of distinguished
persons whose remains have been cremated
Hitherto he has tabooed funerals OF people
who killed themselves or whose remains
were reduced to ashes.
Are Germans DecadentF
Count Posadowsky. formerly minister of
the interior, speaking at the Housing con-
ference. drew a gloomy picture of the con-
dition Of the poorer classes In the cities
At the same time he admitted that the
country population was also growing less
virile.
Although" he said agricultural en-
ployment provides better conditions for
physical fitness in the military sense, yet
in consequence of the underfeeding that Is
characteristic OF rural life, there is to be
noticed every year a steady decrease in
the military fitness OF recruits. even in the
agricultural population"
Count Posadowsky ascribes this TO the
country folk selling their own food produce
and buying inferior city food for their own
consumption.
HoOIiEans Fight Desperately.
sanguinary encounter between police
and hooligans took place in the Friedrich
strasse. where on Saturday criminal shot
a policeman, q waiter and himself
People who heard screams for help com.
ing from beer shop summoned two police
men. who entered the premises and found
the proprietor lying on the ground, whilst
three well dressed men beIabored him with
clubs. Two others were kneeIing beside
him and were endeavoring to stranSie
him with their hands. When they were
interrupted the criminals drew knives and
life preservers, and turned their attention
to the police. One was felIed Immediately
by a kick in the stomach. the effect Of
which will probably be fatal The other
policeman had meanwhile drawn his uaber
and successfully defended himself until a
force OF police arrived
The leader Of the gang had seized a long
knife used for slicing ham and was about
to slash II across the throat OF the pros
rate policeman when a saber cut from
one OF the rescuers feIled him to the
ground He rose again to his feet, bleeding
frfarr -
leaped upon the aggressor with a curved
sthietto' but another saber cut across the
skull stretched him senseless.
Meantime the other four hooliEans. who
were mostly injured, had been driven into
corner by the armed police and surren-
dered quietly
These frock-coated ana patent-booted
hooligans pretended TO be tradesmen ana
travellers. but they had been identified as
members Of a gang OF panderers who have
long made the Upper Friedrichstrasse un-
safe The leader Of the gang was con-
veyed to an hospital.
rraitorOus OficiaI Sentenced.
II is semi-officiaIly announced that Herr
Kruger, an ex-nayal constructor. has been
sentenced to three months Imprisonment
In fortress for communicating details OF
the armament of the warship Nassau 20
Great Britain.
In apporuoning the penalty the court, II
Is stated. was guided by the consideration
that the state suffered no injury through
the communication. and also that four
months after the offenss was committed
the information In question ceased to be
officially a secret
Good Stunt, but Costly,
An enterpristng cafetier recently an
nouneed that beginning on the following
Sunday all his patrons would be attended
by ladies in the Jupe-eulotte skirt An
went well, the cafe was crowded and the
eafetier was pleased with his idea. but
he has not had the last laugh. The
authorities mulcted him in a theatrical
license for giving public performances.