THE ALARMING INCREASE OF WOMEN.
'Clio Social Science Philosophers of Great Britain are becoming alarmed. They have discovered that the disproportion between man and woman is increasing so rapidly in the country as to -threaten an overwhelming redundancy of the feminine gender. The statistics appal them. Out of evefy one hundred women in Great Britain above twenty years of ago it has been ascertained that fifty-seven are wives, thirteen widows, and thirty spinsters. Of a little Under three million women between twenty and forty, in England and Wales, one million two hundred and forty-eight thousand were unmarried. The English philosophers recommend a Whole hegira of females to the United States; but this would not help them much, as there is a large excess of women in that .country, MaSsachusets with a population', of twelve hundred thousand, had forty thousand more women than men at the taking of the last census.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 416, 8 April 1870, Page 3
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