this
including shop-girls, etc., had 59,364; while 631,988 were engaged in
the last division of manufacturing, etc. Of girls from ten to fifteen
years of age, agriculture had 135,862; professional and personal
services, 107,830; trade, 2,547; and manufacturing, etc., 46,930. From
sixteen to fifty-nine years of age there were in agriculture 435,920; in
professional and personal services, 1,215,189; trade and transportation,
54,849; and manufacturing, etc., 577,157. From sixty years and upward
the four classes were divided as follows: Agriculture, 22,728;
professional, etc., 38,276; trade, etc., 1,968; and manufacturing, etc.,
7,901.

Even for this record numbers must be added, since many women work at
home and make no return of the trade they have chosen, while many others
are held by pride from admitting that they work at all. But the addition
of a hundred thousand for the entire country would undoubtedly cover
this discrepancy in full; nor are these numbers too large, though it is
impossible to more than approximate them.

Suggestive as these figures are, they are still more so when we come to
their apportionment to States. They become then a history of the
progress of trades, and women's share in them; and a glance enables one
to determine the proportion employed in each. In the table which
follows, industries are condensed under a general head, no mention
being made of the many subdivisions, each ranking as a trade, but going
to make up the business as a whole. It is the result of statistics taken
in fifty of the principal cities, and includes only those industries in
which women have the largest share.[19]

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| Total |Per Cent |Per Cent |
| Number. |of Males.| of |Children.
| | |Females. |
---------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------
Book-binding | 10,612 | 4,831 | 4,553 | 616
Carpet-weaving | 20,371 | 4,960 | 4,207 | 833
Men's Clothing | 160,813 | 4,801 | 5,037 | 159
Women's Clothing | 25,192 | 1,030 | 8,833 | 137
Cotton Goods | 185,472 | 3,457 | 4,914 | 1,629
Men's Furnishing Goods | 11,174 | 1,140 | 8,560 | 300
Hosiery and Knitting | 28,885 | 2,602 | 6,130 | 1,268
Millinery and Lace | 25,68