A SURPLUS OF WOMEN.
A writer who recently visited Piteairn Island, the home of the' descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty, says.-—"There are, I think, certainly three difficulties which will have to be faced in the near future : First, tie absence of anyone of early middle age capable of taking the place of Mr M'Coy; second, tba surplus of femaies both in the present and the rising generation, a difficulty which is naturally accentuated m a small and secluded community—here philanthropy might step in and provide a home for eome of the more youthful girla, who woold be easily persuaded to leave if their future was assured; third, a growing tendency amongst some of the islandets to use a sort of language of their own, in which the words aze largely clipped, and which is at the best 3 kind of pidgin EagJsh."--'Na*j x awl Assay/
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Evening Star, Issue 11681, 13 February 1902, Page 1
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147A SURPLUS OF WOMEN. Evening Star, Issue 11681, 13 February 1902, Page 1
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