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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 29: fair women. (search)
gland and Germany to the United States? Eight hundred million of dollars: two hundred million pounds sterling! But America is suffering, morally and socially, not only from her absolute and general paucity in female life, but from her partial and unhappy distribution of what she has. In England, France and Germany the sexes find a natural level. One county or one province is no richer than another. Essex has about the same average as Cheshire; Normandie the same average as Provence; Brandenburg the same average as the Rhine. In every region there is a slight excess of female life. Not so in the United States. While the republic as a whole is poor, nearly half the States are rich, some of them over-rich. In seventeen states, and in the district of Columbia, there are more women than men. In some of these states the difference is slight. For instance, in the great State of Pennsylvania, counting more than three million five hundred thousand souls, there is a difference in the