Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-08
NATIVE BORN 229, 392,
Foreigners Only IA per Cent. of
Population-Sligh Changes in
Decade.
Continued from last week.
ILLITERATEs NUMBER 10, 800.

ILLITERATES NUMBER 10, 806.
The census bureau Classics as litter
ate any person 10 years of age or over
who is unable to write regardless of
ability to read. There are 10, 806 litter
ates in the State, representing 81 per
cent. of the total population 10 years of
age and over. as compared with So per
cent. in 1900. The percentage of
illiteracy is 1871 among foreign-born
whites, AS among negroes, and 1.9
among native whites.
For all classes combined the percent
age of illiterates is slightly higher in
urban than in rural population, 3. 9 and
SO, but for each class separately the
percentages are higher in the rural.
For persons from 10 to 20 years, in
elusive, whose literacy depends largely
upon present school facilities and school
attendance, the percentage of illiteracy
is very slight Q.0.)
In the population Is years of age and
over, 34.3 per cent. of the males are
single and 1854 per cent. of the females.
The percentage married is 58.5 for
males and 60.6 for females, and the
percentage widowed So and 1872, re-
spectively. The percentages divorced,
90 and 0.S respectively, are believed to
be too small, because of the probability
that many divorced persons class them
selves as single or widowed.
That the percentage single is so much
smaller for women than for men is due
largely to the fact that they marry
younger. Thus, SO per cent. of the
females from Is to 49, years of age are
married, as compared with 0. 8 per cent.
of the males; 40 per cent. of the females
from 20 to "a years are married, as
compared with 22.1 per cent. of the
males. In the next age group, % to "a
years, the difference is not so great,
75 3 for females and 62.7 for males,
while in the age group 35 to "A the diff
ference practically disappears. That
there is larger proportion of widows
than of widowers may indicate that
men more often remarry than women,
but since husbands are generally older
than their wives, the marriage relation
ship is in fact more often broken by
death of the husband than by death of
the wife.
MORE FOREIGN-BORN MARRIED.
For each of the main elements of the
population the percentage married of
those over Is years of age is as follows:
Foreign-born whites, 63.6 for males,
68.6 for females; native whites of ma
tive parentage, 58.8 and 500, re-
spectively; native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage. SO. 5 and SIP, respec-
lively; negroes, %. 5 for males and 62. 2
for females.
These percentages by no means in
dictate the relative tendency of the
several classes as regards marriage.
To determine that, the comparison
should be made by age periods, since
the proportion married in any class is
determined largely by the proportion
, who have reached the marrying age.
Similarly, the proportion widowed de-
ponds largely on the proportion past
: middle life. The percentage married
for males is slightly higher, and fol-
females decidedly higher in rural thar
in urben communities.
The total number of dwellings in Yer
mont is n, 466, and the total number OF
families IS, l7S, indicating that in com
paratively few cases does more thar
one family occupy dwelling. The
average number of persons per dwelling
is 4.6 and the average number pei
y. family Az.