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Show : . ; Wyoming Has Fewest Old Maids j and Nevada Has Most Bachelors i UfASIIINGTON, Jan 26. The pro-, " portion ,,f marrlod men to tho total to-tal malt population over 16 years of! age. has Increased from to 5 y . 2 per' cent in ten years pn ceding the 1 920 ! ensue, according to statistics made public today by tho census bureau. The bureau believed. however, that this 1 was Indicative of ft change in the ig ' "in posit Ion of the population an in- crease in the percentage of mais between be-tween 1 and 26 years of agej due to' increased Immigration than a growing grow-ing propensity to matrimonj of the male population of 53,900,-131 53,900,-131 above the 15-yeai classification, the census figure showed 2 1,849,866 married, 1 768 308 widowed and 20,-281 20,-281 divorced, tho latter figure, however, how-ever, including none dlvorc d and remarried. re-married. The divorce totals showed an Increase of 20 percent. Although, due to tho absence of wives of 'many foreign-born residents, 'he number of ma t ried women was shown to ! about 500,000 leas than the male total, "1P number of divorced ivomen. exceeded men by approximate!) 4u.uuo. repre-1 I si nting closely the difference between the Dumber Of nu n and Women remarried remar-ried after divorce. By states, Massachusetts led the field in the proportion of single wo-men wo-men With a percent. igo of 34.4 although al-though the district of Columbia exceeded ex-ceeded this with 37 3 per cent. Wyoming led with 70. ft per cent In ihe proportion of married women, whip ilf largest proportion of mar-ried mar-ried men, 8$. 8 per cent, was shown I.. .' IsSlppi and Arkansas, and the smallest, 4'J. per cent lor Nevada. |