ABSTRACT
The result of the census taken in April last is before people, for the number and general status of our vast population affect many different points of political and social interest, and for those who have eyes to see the census has comprehensive lessons to teach. A woman, and especially an English woman, turns with natural interest to the paragraph which concerns the numerical proportion of her own sex, and this is the cardinal point, the importance of which the author wishes to press home to every woman in the land. The proportion of females to males has been steadily increasing at each census since 1851. Every kind of argument is used to show plainly and unmistakably the immense stake that we women have in the good of the country, and yet prejudice or ignorance blinds the eyes of women and deadens their hearts to their own interests in the most astonishing way.
