| Show OUTNUMBER THE MEN women doomed to spinsterhood in the united kingdom london aug A recent article in the express discussed the ques alon as to what is the best age or marriage the answer which a mere man suggests as the right one for women who wish to enter the bonds ot j i wedlock ig to marry whenever the first i suitable husband and opportunity cents itself or also they may never set married at all i there are sound practical reasons I 1 for this advice this Is not an age when women can afford to pick and choose with too great discrimination for it all the males in the united kingdom were to take unto them beltes wives tomorrow thero would still be disconsolate females compelled to eke out their existence in solitude la quoting the above it is supposed that all the males and females are unmarried but as a matter of fact ot the HS boys and men in the country only are husbands and widowers also of the girls and women only are wives and widows the actual number of bachelors Is and of spinsters spin so that it all bachelors were paired off there would remain era who could not obtain a husband for love or money it Is perhaps not unnatural that a higher percentage 0 men than women should be married as of course they have a much greater scope in their chalce FEWER MARRIED WOMEN the husbands of the united kingdom number per cent ot the whole male population while the wives only muster a percentage ot of the female population the lower percentage in wives however is more than balanced by the predominance of the widows over the widowers cheth r it is that their wives have proved oo 00 great a worry to them or that business cares have caused physical breakdown the fact nevertheless remains that there are only widowers to widows this great disparity must be accounted an ad misfortune for the twelve mil lion old spinsters spin as it makes another million and a halt competitors tor the already outnumbered bachelors and widows are rivals that the most fascinating spinsters spin cannot afford to neglect A study ot the distribution of the bexes in the united kingdom affords come curious results which should be ot absorbing interest to the hapless bachelor or the widower seeking a wife it is found for instance thai ireland Is the most likely country for a girl to find a husband since there are only 1027 women to every thousand men and that england and wales will give the bachelor or widower the greatest choice for a wife as the proportion of females rises to 1068 to every thousand males scotland comes midway with 1057 bonen to a thousand men for bachelors and spinsters spin who cannot go beyond the boundaries of england the following two lias of towns and districts first where men predominate over women and second where women predominate over men will be of interest STRIKING FIGURES excess of men over women per persons furness devonport Monmouth shire st helena city of london 2700 middlesbrough Middles brough 2696 durham county 2392 burton on trent 2160 southampton 1980 derbyshire excluding derby 1130 west bromwich 1088 stepney northumberland bootle gateshead Gate shead cass poplar i canterbury Bouth wark excess of women over men per persons bournemouth Bourne mouth hampstead kensington hastings brighton r city from the first table it will be been that an unmarried lady will have the greatest choice ot husbands in the neighborhood of barrow ln furness she will also do well either at devonport st helens or in mon mouth shire the city ot london which would have imagined to supply men in very unequal proportion to women only has a surplus of the former of 2700 per inhabitants BACHELORS ELYSIUM the selections in the second table are only those towns where feminine predominance Is most pronounced bournemouth Bourne mouth la evidently a bachelors cly siam while hampstead and kensington run each other hard for second place ireland which it has already been pointed out presents greater choice of husbands than any other portion of the united kingdom seems to he singular prolific in married or widowed centen arlana the centenarian husbands number two as against fifteen centenarian wives but of the widowed centenarians centen arians no fewer than act are women while only are men an increasing realization by the vast body of unattached ladles of their social disadvantages as compared with those of their more fortunate bis tera la bald to be responsible tor the great increase in ladles clubs which has been noticeable of lato all over the country thes clubs ar liely patronized by unmarried to escape for a time from the restrictions of the home circle to place where they to be their own and their own boats the growt nf independence of woman may tn fact be regarded as an that she at last realizes the bachelor numerical inferiority if every woman desired a husband she could not hv one or the dimple rea pon that there are not to go round 0 o the hag begun to regard the difficulty philosophically and to remedy it by looking after 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