Show always the extra woman it Is true that for every even births of girl infants there are boys born but of those belonging to both sexes remaining alive at the end of the first y year ear there are just girls alive to 95 leys boys moreover the lutlo of survival increases slightly in favor of the girls throughout life therefore at nil all age periods there Is a more or less decided excess of females over males primitive man found this out for himself without the aid of mortality tables or adding machines lie ile met the problem lit in ills own naive fashion accord I 1 n g to taste by brownt drowning ng the extra babies selling thein into slavery or letting thein them grow and practicing polygamy Carol caroline lne E maewill in scribners magazine |