WOMEN EXCEED MEN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 June 1927, Page 9

WOMEN EXCEED MEN.

LARGE SURPLUS IN ENGLAND. NOVELIST PREDICTS SEX WAR, LONDON'. June 4. Air. Gilbert Frankau, the, wellknown novelist, in an article in, the “Evening -News” entitled “The Alaiden’s Over,” predicts a sex war as the result of the present- monogamous system, when there are two million more females than males in England. “An unmated woman’s nature,” he writes, “is like a, steam roller. If it is sufficiently compressed 'it will explode. Britain’s surplus women have not yet exploded, hut there is a- rattling of the safety-valve. which is proved by their energy, health, sheer vitality and physique displayed on the tennis 'ourt and stage and in the office. kitchen and mill. “If the sitter on the safety-valve is that most ghastly of modern phenomena. the lackadaisical. lack-lustre, Oxford-trousered. Social ism-spouting, mealy - mouthed. ukulele - strumming modern hoy. the end of the sex war can, he accurately prognosticated'. He will have to how to the wishes of two millions o-f modern girls, nearly all craving, consriouslv and siib-oonisoious-!v. the job of matehood for wh-i-di nature has mainly oonipped them, unless the sui-plu.s maidens prefer to refuse duogamy with the modern boy.”

The mm census showed 15.723.613 males and 16.77)9.230 females in Engbtnd- and Wales—a surplus of 1.070.Pm. The figures in 1611 were 1 7 JJ.7 nns and 18.624.834—a . surplus of 1.170.9-76—and in 1021. 18.680.0e0 „, m i 10.803.022 a surplus of 1.720.802.