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Show H I STERNER SEX MAKING GAINS W4II Soon Be More Numerous Than H Women, It Is Thought. H Frau Gnnuck-Kuehno Is one of the H greatest German authorities on the H modern feminist movements and at- H tcr mature study and the collection of H statistics she lias come to tho con- H elusion that the superfluity of women H In so ir.any European countries is a fact which In the first placo is in no H sense an evil and in tho second placo M is rapidly disappearing. M In another twenty years, she be- M lioves, tho tide will begin to turn tho M other wny and tho men will be In M the majority even in such countries M as England and Germany, wboio at M the present tlmo women immensely fl predominate. Somo of her statistics H arc most interesting. In Luxembourg, for example, In 1890, there wcro !, M 002 women for every 1,000 men. H Thcro nro now only 90!). In H Austria tho proportion hns been re- M duccd in the samo tlmo from 1,044 to H 1,035, in Hungary from 1,015 to 1,009, M in Switzerland from 1,057 to 1,035, M In Sweden from 1,005 to 1,049, in Gor- H many from 1,040 to 1,032, in England H from 1,055 to 1,047. Sho does not be- B Hove that any European nation except H Russia will long continue to Increaso M rapidly in proportion. England has H begun to follow tho cxnmplo of H Franco and Germany will certainly M follow in Englnnd's footsteps. B In all "advanced" European states M the birth rnto Is either becoming sta- M tionary or begins to show a back- H ward tendency. |