The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-19

$50 per cent, and of the negroes
33.9 per cent.
The urban population shows E
smaller proportion of children of per
sons in the prime Of life. Migration
to the city explains this at least il
part. OF the urban population, 30.i
per cent. are from 25 to "A years ot
age, inclusive, and Of the rural pop,
ulation, 22.3 per cent.
The census inquiry as to school at.
tendance was marely as to whether
the person enumerated had attended
any kind Of school at any time be-
tween September 1, 1909, and the
date of enumeration, April Is, 1910
School Attendance.
The total number Of persons OF
school age-that is, 6 to 20 years,
inclusive-is 564,260, of whom 291,-
307, or SIS per cent, attended
school. In addition to these, 1855
children under and 4,4S6 persons
81 and over attended school. For
boys from to 20 years, inclusive,
the parentase attending school was
50.7; for girls, 52.6. For children
from to IA years, inclusive, the
percentage attending school was
s2,6. The percentage for children
of this age among native whites of
native parentage was 72.1; among
native whites Of foreign or mixed
parentage, S1.4; among foreign-born
whites, 72.2; and among negroes,
56.1. In urban communities the per-
centage of children of that age at
tending school was TIA, and in rural
61.5.
nliteracy.
The census bureau classifles as il
literate any persons 10 years of age
or over who is unable to write, re-
gardless of ability to read.
There are 276,9S0 illiterates in
the States, representing 25.7 per
cent. of the total population 10 years
of age and over, as compared with
35.9 per cent. in 1900. The percent
age Of illiteracy is 3S.7 among ne
groes, 1913 among native whites, and
6.S among foreign-born whites. 1t is
1O.5 for native whites Of native par
enage and IA for native whites Of
foreign or mixed parentage.
Illiterates are relatively fewer in
urban than in rural communities, the
percentages being 1876 and 27.7, re-
spectively. The rural percentage ex-
ceeds the urban for each class Of the
population except the foreign-born
whites, most Of whom arrive in this
country when past the school age.
Among them the percentage of illit-
eracy is slightly higher in the urban
than in the rural.
For persons from 10 to 20 years
of age, inclusive, whose literacy de-
pends largely upon present school
facilities and school attendance, the
Lercentage CT illiteracy is 1911.
Marital Condition.
In the population Is years of age
and over, 35.5 per cent. of the males
are single and 20 per cent. Of the
females. The percentage married is
SGT for males and 5s4 for females,
and the percentage widowed "A and
12.1, respectively. Although the law
granting divorces in South Carolina
was repealed in 1878, the number re-
ported in 1910 as divorced is believ-
ed to be too small, because Of the
probability that a number of divorc-
ed persons class themselves as single
or widowed.
That the percentage is smaller for
women than for men is due largely
to the fact that women marry young
er. Thus ia per cent. of the fe-
males from Is to 19 years Of age
are married, as compared with 81
per cent. of the males, and CO.'S per
cent. of the females from 20 to "a
years are married, as compared with
Ais per cent. Of the males. In the
next age group, 25 to "a years, the
difference largely disappears, and
among those in the next two age
groups the percentage married is
higher among the males. That there
is a larger proportion Of widows than
of widowers may indicate that men
more often re-marry than women,
but, since the husbands are generally
older than their wives the marriage
is more often broken by
death of the husband than by death
of the wife.
For the main elements OF the pop
ulation the percentages of married
persons among those Is years Of age
and over are as follows: Foreign
born whites, 5S for males and SO for
females; native whites of native par
entage, 5S.3 and 59.5, respectively;
native whites of foreign or mixed
parentage( SIS and 46; negroes,
6i.1 and SIS.
These percentages by no means in
dicate 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 proper
tion who have reached the marrying
age. Similarly, the proportion wild
owed depends largely on the proper
ton past middle life. The percent
age married, both for males and for
females, is higher in rural than in
urban communities.
Dwellings and Families.
The total number of dwellings in
South Carolina is 302,S42, and the
total number of families 315, ,204, in
dicating that in comparatively few
ono 70 oroi1v nc-