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Show FEWER WOMEN THAN MEN. The proportion of women is slowly but surely decrcasing, and the threatened superfluity of the latter need no longer be feared. An Englishman, Professor Ernest II. Dunwoodic, of the British Royal Roy-al Geographical society, is compiling a record of the human family. According to him there are at present 2,231,850,000 human beings, of which number num-ber ,383,747,000 are men and 818,103,000 women, the latter representing only 38 per cent of the total i inhabitants. The difference has decreased 2 per j cent within ten years. In this country there is an estimated 'population of 40,000,000 women' against 12.0()(,000 men. V ,; ' , ;,jMore than one-quarter of Canada's population consists of utunarried women of all ages. |