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Show THE OVERSUPPLY OF WOMEN. British census roturns show that females are in excess of males In tho United Kindom to Uie unmber of 1.-17S.317 1.-17S.317 Even with deductions for soldiers and sailors abroad and not women and girls contrasts with the opposito excess of 1.815,007 males in our own population by tho census ot 1900 Nor docs the oxcess of females In the North Atlantic states, a time-honored subject of sorious discussion, as well as of Jest, bear any numerical relation re-lation to the disproportion of the sexes sex-es In Great Britain. In four of. tho Btates of this gTOup, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut nnd Pennsylvania, thore was an excess of males In mOO, whllo In Mnssachusottfl, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey and New York tho number of females wns but US. 235 above that of males. Women most predominate in the District of Columbia, where in 1900 they numbered 111,144 for eery 101, 000 of male population. Thoy wero in excess by 51-1$ per 100,000 of population popula-tion In Massachusetts, by 3,574 In Roode Island and 1.0S8 In New York. In North Carolina thev exceeded the males by 1,753, and In South Carolina Caro-lina by 1.3S3 per 100.000. , But it is to England that tho honors of fenilnino increase aro due. How j , advanced leaders of the cause will 3 view this numerical inequality of the j J Bexes remains to bo learned. Whether -j J or not the conditions point to the ul- t jj timato eIimina'on of man and the de- i k velopment ot the kingdom Into an Ad- amless Eden, the material is provided j for new corps of suffragist recruits. J In large measure, England's surplus j of females is no doubt due to the em- t lgratlon of yoringer sons to the four ; quarters of tho world. The present i movement to encourage a parallel em- J 5 lgratlon of young women from the 1 j parent country to the English colonies ; may In tlmo reduce the disproportion ," j Now York World. ', I |