WOMEN EXCEED MEN.

Shannon News, 8 July 1927, Page 2

WOMEN EXCEED MEN.

LARGE SURPLUS IN ENGLAND. LONDON, June 4. Mr. Gilbert Frankau, the-well-known novelist, in an article in the Evening News entitled “The Maidens Ovei, predicts a sex war as the result ot the present monogamous system, when there are two million more females than males in England. ~ , “An unmated woman s natuie, lie writes, “is like a steam-roller. . it 1 is sufficiently compressed it will ex plode. Britain’s surplus women haie not yet exploded, but there IS . I ‘ v of. “i. ***-«£»£ that most htek-lirntM, trousered, Socialism-spouting, ° Xf ? rd m nSed ukelele-strumming mealy-mouineu , f + i lp sex war modern boy, the endo*t*e «> can be accurate yp g , islies 0 f two will have to bow to tne w all millions of and sub-con-cxaving; eon y 0 [ matehood for scxously, the 3ob inl equipped which K f tu a re thp sur plus maidens preboy. M __

. rr , 1901! census showed 15 / 2 |® l3 *be ff. „ 0,,n females m Lug males and 16.,799, 2ojj of 1 070,619. land ® ve ?e 17,445,608 and The figures m ” f x 179,276— and surplus ot 1,720.802-