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Show WOMEN FOR GERMAN COLONIES.' Effort to Overcome the Disparity Between Be-tween the Sexes. In tho colonics of Germany there nro regions aggregating an area larger! than tho mother country herself wherej Gorman settlers may thrive and raakO" ' Ml now homes for themselves. They may; ' Hvo in theso new homes In greater comfort than In the old country. At; present there aro about 10,000 whiter men in these colonics, but only 1,000 women. This disparity between th sexes is being much talked about in Germany. Many of tho leading German Ger-man women nro studying tho problom. They nre asking if It would not bo a blessing to tho colonies If their white population consisted of somo thousands of German families Instead of a few thousand German men. Would It not transform tho colonies Into new Gcrmanys? Tho women say tho Ger-. man family should be the social unit in tho colonics. In Juno last the Women's Colonial union was organized under tho patron-' ago of Grand Dtik,o Johann Albrccht of; Mecklenburg. Nearly ovory member of the managing committee Is the wife , of a government official or of an army f o nicer. In Septembor the union sent Its first party of young women to ono of the-colonies. the-colonies. Thousands of German women wom-en aro joining tho society and a large scheme of work has been cut out. In October the union began the pub- . Mention of a 16-page paper called Kolo- jjv nlo nnd Hclmat. It appears fortnight- ly, and Is filled with flno photographs of colonial sccnos and nows and com-1 ment of tho colonies. This is the or-1 " gan of tho union, but It Is only ono-nmong ono-nmong n number of means througlr which tho Influcnco of tho union Is. beginning to bo widely felt. It is working to interest Gorman women of all ranks in llfo in tho colonics, giving" advlco and material support to women wom-en who Intend to omlgrnte. |