The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-26
WOMEN WORKERS.

Some Interesting Statistics From
All Over the World About Women.
Women in Great Britain are well repre-
eented in the professions and trades, and
about 100000 earn their own living. There
are $4,000 who teach; 10000 are bookblnd-
ers; over 5000 are printers, nearly 500 act
as editors and compilers; 300 are engaged
In photography; civil service clerks num-
Der $500; nearly 5000 are engaged In
medical work and nursing, and BAT women
are blacksmiths.
The Oldest banker in the world is a
woman, aged SO; she Is Deborah Powers,
the senior partner in the bank of D. Pow
ers & Sons, Lansingberg, England.
Miss Cons is an alderman of the Lon
don County Council.
A successful firm of tea merchants in
London is composed entirely of women.
The blenders, tasters and packers are also
women.
There are twenty-three English women
practicing medicine in India.
Miss Constance Taylor Of London is
dog fancler some of her orders come
from Central Africa.
Miss Sprules of Surry, England, is a
lavender distiller.
Miss F. r. Wilkinson Of London Is q
landscape gardner.
Miss Amy E. Bell Is an English woman
who has taken up stockbroking.
Miss Constance Blaydes, an English girl,
finds goat raising a profitable industry.
Miss Leigh Spencer of British Column
bia Is a mining broker.
Mrs. Emma E. Forsythe is engaged in
the sale of mother-of-pearl at New Brit
ain, an island in the Southern Pacific.
In Germany three women are employed
as chimney sweeps, seven as gunsmiths,
nineteen as brass and bell founders, TAT as
coppersmiths, 379 as farriers and nailers,
800 as masons eight as stone cutters, 1900
in marble, stone and slate quarries. In
all. 5,5OO,O00 women earn their living In
trades and professions.
In Berlin, women guides are employed
by the city.
Every animal slaughtered for food pur-
poses in Berlin Is subjected to microscopic
examination by a corps of women micro
scoplsts especially trained to the work.
In Holland women instead of men, sig
nal railway crossings.
In Austro-Hungary, about 100000 wo-
men are engaged in industrial pursuits:
Austria has many women BARRIERS.
| Nine. Rosa Kerschbaum conducts hos
pital for eye diseases at Vienna.
France employees over 5000 women in
her civil service, telephone and telegraph
| office. The Bank of France pays salary
to 400 women, and 200 women have posi-
lions In the Credit Foncier. Altogether,
S,75O0 French women support themselves
by their own exertions.
one railway company in Russia has 80
women in its employ.
In Central Russia, the township of Bes-
| iukooschtschna--a territory of ten square
| miles, divided into seven villages-is run
entirely by eight women who administer
all public affairs.
The town of Kniazeff Russia, ia run by
a woman starosta or Mayor, Alexandra
| Lyme. by name.
| A Mohammedan woman Is a practicing
| physician and surgeon at Odessa. DR..
| Razie Koutloiaroff- Hanum is her name,
and hers is the first case on record of a
Mohammedan woman practicing medicine
by Western methods.
Women are employed as teiegraphic
clerks and ticket agents on the Trans-Cas-
Plan Railroad.
In Turkey, a native woman, who studied
in this country, is now practicing medl-
| cine.
In Burmah all women of the lower
! classes have a trade; nearly all the retail
trade of the island is in their care.
In Chill, all car conductors, hotel and
postoffice clerks are women.
| Onchunga, New Zealand, has elected
| Mrs. Yates Mayor.
| Miss Cree Stanley is the nrst woman
member of the Sydney CAustralla) Trade
and Labor Council-being the delegate OF
the Female Employees Union