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America to keep them from military service. There were few 
available young women of their own nationality, and this in- 
equality of the sexes led to intermarriage, chiefly with Empire 
Germans. When the immigration of the nineties provided a 
supply of women, the percentage of mixed marriages dropped 
to 12.1. During the last twenty years of more normal conditions, 
it has risen from 12.1 in the first decade to 15.5 in the second 
decade—a sign of the growing assimilation of the people. 
More Russian German women marry outside their nationality 
than men, a total of 73 women and 61 men having contracted 
mixed marriages. The excess of women is the more striking 
when one recalls that in the first period, nine tenths of the inter- 
marriages were of Russian German men ; while in the year 1908, 
nine tenths were of Russian German women. The occupations 
which are followed account in part for the greater independence 
of the men. The foreign women are thrown with native men in 
industry more than the Russian German men are thrown with 
native women, and this contact sometimes results, as has been 
seen, in intermarriage.’® 
The marriage licenses issued in Lancaster county, show the 
birthplace of those intermarrying Russian Germans to be as 
follows: 
Taste XVIII. Brrreprace oF THOSE INTERMARRYING WITH RussIANn 
GERMANS, 1878-1014 
Birthplace Brides Grooms 
Wasted sStatesse nee Wee alta 39 54 
German yest ee nng tit aie wae ea aly) 17 16 
Plan gay ern tey wire eee eee ee ctv 2 I 
Deninanloa tien Wer ein Sune sen a a8 I 
England eat Cae hare Ra sek ore amine ees I 
Aiea ie a tae sete tant ee Rah a I 
RS Siae(Silanp eens Ten nena I 
IU nilcin@ ware presence ok ey emt I 
Totals natieje: secre Bich Eh yl ae 61 73 
"8 But in European countries it is also true that native women are much 
more likely to marry outside their group than are foreign men. Bailey, 
Modern Social Conditions, 165; Mayo-Smith, Statistics and Sociology, 
III-112, 
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