TOO MANY WOMEN

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 21, 29 December 1877, Page 2

TOO MANY WOMEN

Statistics tell us, says the "World," that the numerical excess of women over men is but smali— ; -iipt more than two or three per hundred; but this percentage, inline present state 6TE the social fabric, is quite sufficient to disturb the^epuilibrium. Look ?lt thY quieftioji m% broader way; examine the ranks which^make no pretensions to belong,, m the most distant manner, f»'' society:" The tradesmen, the clerk, the worknlg man, from the highest to the lowest/ail with families, have to meet this problem ; -—what to do with the surplus women ? # It is not only^a matter of employment or of earning a livelihood, seiiens/ as that aspect of the thing maybe. Wtttt „ is to /become of them, socially anoSc morally P "What does become of th%in now? Certainly they do not all fit into the ranks ; they do not all marry ;. hundreds and hundreds mustdwrist m some way outside^and beyond all domestic ties. For a man there is always hppe^some chance may at , any time give him a lift; but it is to^lje feared that to very many _ women there comes a time, end that m early life, when, though without vanity >they may call ' themselves handsome, the hard facts of existence crush out the ; hoper of ever- ' fulfilling their natural destiny.—European JMaiV ; : \ '-if-