The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-18

of militia age-18 to 44-number $40, 227.
OF the total population, 11.3 per
cent are under years of age, 20.5
per cent from to IA years, inclusive,
20 per cent from Is to "a .27.7 per
cent from IS to "A, and 20.3 per cent
As years of age and over. The for
eign-born white population com priSeS
comparatively few children, only A
per cent of this class being under 15
years of age, while S4.8 per cent are
% years of age and over. OF the ma
tive whites of foreign or mixed par
entage, only 44.S per cent are Is and
over and of the native whites of ma
tive parentage practically the same
proportion CAB per cent?
The urban population shows
smaller proportion of children than
the rural and a larger proportion of
persons in the prime of life. Migra-
ton to the city explains this at least
in part. Of the urban population, 31.2
per cent are from % to A years of
age, inclusive, and of the rural pop
ulation, 1852 per cent.
The total number of persons of
school age-that is, from s to 20
years, inclusive-is SIS, 1856, of whom
363,695, or 70.6 per cent, attended
school. In addition to these, 6,527 per-
sons under and 1877 of 21 and over
attended school. For boys from to
90 years. inclusive, the percentage at
tending school was $50; for girls,
ia For children from to IA years,
school was $50. The percentage for
children of this age among native
whites of native parentage was S8.3;
among native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage, S9.1; among foreign
born whites, 1871; and among negroes,
S4.6. There is little difference be-
tween urban and rural communities
as regards the percentage attending
school for the ages from 6 to IA, but
of persons from 1 5 to 20 years of age,
a On of
school was 37.5 in the urban popula-
ton and 46.S in the rural.
IlIiterates in State.
There are 2S,96S ilIiterates in the
state, representing 2.2 per cent of the
total population 10 years of age and
over, as compared with 2.9 per cent
in 1900. The percentage of illiteracy
is 0.S among native whites, 1O.5
among foreign-born whites, and IL
For all classes combined, the per-
centage of illiterates is Slightly higher
in the urban population than in the
rural. the percentages being "a and
2. respectively, but for each class
separately. with the exception of the
foreign born white, the percentage is
higher in the rural population.
For persons from 10 to 20 years of
age, inclusive, whose literacy depends
largely upon present school facilities
and school attendance, the percentage
of i1literacy is very low (0.6.)
In the population l 5 years of age
and over, 37.4 per cent of the males
are single and 26.6 per cent of the fe-
males. The percentage married is
56.S for males and 63.7 for females.
and the percentage widowed, As and
81, respectively. The percentages of
those reported as divorced, 0.6 and
d., respectively, are believed to be too
small, because of the proba bility 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 in part to the excess of |
part to the fact that women marry !
younger. Thus II per cent of the fe-
males from Is to 10 years of age are |
married, as compared with 0.S per |
,ent of the males, and 52.8 per cent |
IF the females from 20 to "a years are !
married, as compared with 22.7 per
,ent of the males. In the next age
ire 500 and 64.S, respectively, while
n the age group 35 to A they are
'6.4 to 500. In the age group As and
over, however, the percentage is high
er among males (79.6 as compared |
with 70.4.) That there is a larger
of widows than of widow
ers may indicate that men more often
'emarry than women, but, since hus-
bands are generally older than their
wives, the marriage relationship is
more often broken by death of the
than by death of the wife.
Percentage of Married Persons
For the main elements of the popu-
alton the percentages of married per-
IONS among those 15 years of age and
,ver are as follows: Foreign-b born |