The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-27
WOMEN AS WAGE FARMERS.

millions Are Employed Daily in Va,
rious lands and Various Ways.
Women In Great Britain are well repre-
scented in the professions and trades, an,
about 100000 earn their own living
There are $4,000 who teach; 10000 arr
bookbnders; over 5000 are printers, nearl.
500 act as editors and compllers; 1900 are
engaged in photography; civil SERVED
clerks number $500; nearly $4,000 are en-
gagged in medical work and nursing and 81
women are blacksmiths.
The oldest banker in the world ~
woman. She is Deborah Powers the senior
partner in the bank OF d. Powers 6. Sons
Lansingberg, England. She is IS years
old.
Miss Cons Is an alderman of the Lon
don county council
successful firm OF tea merchants II
London is composed entirely OF women
women
There are twenty three English women
practicing medicine in India.
Miss Constance Taylor of London IS d
dog fancier. Some of her orders come
from Central Africa.
Miss sprules of Surrey. England, IS j
lavender distiller.
Miss F. r. Wilkinson of London is a
landscape gardener.
Miss Amy L. Bell is an English woman
who has taken up stockhroking
Miss Constance Blaydes an English girl
hnds goat raising profitable industry.
Miss Leigh Spencer OF British Columbia
is mining broker.
MIS- Emma +. Forsythe Is engaged IN
the sale OF mother-of pearls at New,
Britain, an island In the Southern Pacific
In Germany, three women are employed
az chimney sweeps. seven as gunsmiths
nineteen as brass and bell founders 147 "a
eoooppersmiths, $40 as farriers and nailers
oV' as masons, eight as stonecutters. 1000
IN mnrole, stone and slate quarries. In all
100000 women earn their liyinr in trades
and professions
IN Berlin. women guides are employed
by the city. ~
EVERY animal slaughtered for food pur-
poses IN Berlin 10 subjected to microsconic
examination by corps of women micro
sc9pis,s especially trained to the work.
~ rioIlahd' women, instead of men, sig
nal railway crossings. 10
In Austro- Hungary, about q. ooo oOo wo.
men are engaged in Industrial pursuits
austria has many women BARRIERS,
'auane Rosa kerschbaum conducts a
hospital for eye diseases at Vienna.
france employees over 5000 women In her
civil service, telephone and telegram of.
nee The Bank of France paws salary IA
avg women. and 200 women have pnsif,ons
IN the Credit Foncier Altogether 75n
wv french women support themselves hy
their own exertions. ~
- one railway company in Russia ba.
thirty women In its employ.
IN central Russia the township ~ ps..
,oKooschtschina-a territory of ten SQUARE
nliies, divided into seven villages-is rr,
emureiy by eight women who administs.
all public affairs. 'n,s'et
ine Town OF knlazeff, Russia. has va.
man mayor Alexandra Lyme. by name !,
Mohammedan woman Is nractic,n.
physlcian and surgeon at Odessa Dr'
haI'e houtioiaroff- Hanum Is her nana
ana hers Is the first case on recors ~
Mo1ammedan woman practicinc medicins
by western methods. uis'ue
women are employed as te,eeranh,,
sierhs ana ticket agents on the Transcass
IN turkey native women. who s,,,a,.,
cine ~ .n's country, is now practicing medi-
In Burmah all women OF tba ,on..
tai, "ra nave trade: nearly all of the re-.
II rye r,pn, OF the island is in their care
ro,,o,an AN al car conductors. hoteI an,
pos.olhee clerks are women
No wn' Yu New Zealand, has eIectea
!, MISS miss Cree Stanley is the frst woman
ana 10 OF the sydney Australia, trsda
The Esn,a, cuuneil--being the delegate ~
'ps fe"aie Employees union, ' =