THE SEXES IN AMERICA.
One curious revelation of the last census of the United States was the growth of the population of the large cities. It Ifwas shown that New York contains about * 25,000 more women than men ; Boston has;a surplus of 18,000 women ; in Baltimore there are 17,000 more 'women than men; and so on in several other of the large eastern cities. Fifty years ago it was the men who came to the cities to pursue • their careers, while the women -stayed at home, but more recently women, j^th in this country and in Europe, have ISeen^^rowding to the business centres.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5350, 21 November 1885, Page 4
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