CHAPTER I THE MAKE-UP OF THE POPULATION THE traits and tendencies of society are in no small degree. determined by its human composition. It is therefore necessary to consider, first of all, how the make up of the population varies in respect to age, sex, nativity, marital condition and mental capacity. SEX CHAP. I Settling try ProSome Dis the Coun duces In old countries the sexes are rather evenly distributed but in the process of settling a new country the sexes become in some degree dissociated. Thus in the United States west of the Missouri River there are about three men for every two women. In mining and cattle raising states like Nevada, Montana and Wy- Sexes oming the ratio is near two to one. WYOMING sociation of the In Alaska and Hawaii the disproportion is even greater. In general the population agrapple with rude Nature will be strongly male, altho it makes a difference whether the attack is on PROPORTION OF MALES TO FEMALES IN THE TOTAL POPULATION, BY COUNTIES: 1910. Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. forests and minerals or on the soil. Agriculture is more hospitable to women than lumbering and mining. Less hedged about than women, men are readier to break home ties and try their fortune in a strange land. In our earlier foreign immigration males were to females as three is to two; but in thenew immigration, coming for high wages rather than land, they . were three to one. Districts which have lost by emigration have more women than men. South Carolina shows 25 women to 24 Foreign form while CHAP. I Men Mi grate Far ther than Women 6 FEMALES 2 0 PER CENT men, Massachusetts 20 women to 19 men and, for the native stock, II women to 10 men. Cities are magnets as well as new regions and cities with their offer of security and the opportunity of self-support lure more women than the rude frontier. Hence, men preponderate in the 1 flow to new regions, while women often outnumber men in the currents to the cities. Very Commer- Attract More Men, Cities Cities, however, differ greatly in their attraction for women. Commercial cities abound most in opportunities for men. naturally Minneapolis has 115 men to 100 women; Portland, Oregon, 150; Seattle, 153; San Francisco, 144. No wonder such More cities are marked by energy, daring and prompt decision! Be- Women cause of their demand for personal or domestic service, residence cities show an excess of women. Washington, Richmond, Cambridge and Nashville have from 113 to 116 women for every |