The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-24
WOMEN AT WORK.

In Q dream.
WOMEN AT WORK.
Some Interesting Statistics From
All Parts Of the World.
Women in Great Britain are well rep
resented in the professions and trades,
and about 1000 900 earn their own liv-
ing. There are $4,000 who teach. 1e.ese
are bookbinders. over 5000 are printers,
nearly, 500 act as editors and compilers.
$50 are engaged in photography, civil
service clerks number 1900. nearly S.
900 are engaged In medical work and
nursing and BAT women are blacksmiths.
The Oldest banker in the world IL .
woman, aged 50; she Is Deborah Pow
ers. the senior partner in the bank Of D.
Powers & Sons. Lansingberg. England.
Miss Cons Is an alderman Of the Lon
don county council.
A successful firm Of tea merchants In
England is composed entirely Of We
men. The blenders, tasters and pack
ers are also women.
There are twenty-three English wo-
men practicing medicine in India
Miss Constance Taylor Of London II
q dog fancier: some Of her orders come
from Central America.
Miss sprules Of Surrey. England. 10 .
lavender distiller.
Miss +. r. Wilkinson Of London 10 .
landscape gardener.
Miss Amy e Bell 10 an English wo-
man who has taken up stockbroking.
Miss Constance Blaydes. an English
girl, finds goat raising profitable In
dustry.
Miss Leigh Spencer Of British colun-
bia 10 . mining broker.
Mrs. Emma e. Forsythe 10 engaged IN
the sale of mother-of-pearl at New
Britain, an island In the southern Pa
cific.
In Germany three women are en-.
ployed as chimney sweeps. seven %
gunsmiths. nineteen an brass and bell
founders. lat as toppersmithA SO ~
farriers and nailers. 500 as masons.
eight as stonecutters. 1000 in marble.
stone and slate quarries. In all. $500. 900
women earn their living in trades and
professions.
In Berlin women guides are employed
by the city.
Every animal slaughtered for food
purposes in Berlin IL subject to micro
scopical examination by a corps Of wo-
men microscopes especially trained 70
the work.
In Holland women. instead Of men.
signal railway crossings.
In Austro- Hungary about 1905, 80
women nre engaged In Industrial pur-
suits.
Austria has many women BARRIERS.
Nine. Rosa Kerschbaum conducts Q
hospital for eye diseases at Vienna.
France employs over 5000 women in
its civil service. telephone and tele.
graph Offices. The bank Of France pays
salary to 400 women. and 200 women
have positions in the Credit Foncier.
Altogether 3.75o.ooo French women sup
port themselves By their eva exer-
tons.
One railway company in Russia has
thirty women In its employ.
In central Russia the township Of
Besjukooschtschina- territory OF ten
square miles. divided into seven viii
lages-is run entirely by eight women,
who administer all public affairs.
The town Of Knaizeff. Russia, Is run
BY q woman starosta or mayor. Alex.
andre Lyme by name.
A Mohammedan woman II prnctio-
ing physician and surgeon at Odessa.
DR.. Razte Koutloiareff- Hanum IL her
name, and hers - the first case. on rec
ord Of a Mohammedan woman prnctie-
ing medicine by western methods.
Women are employed n telegrnphie
clerks and ticket agents On the Trans.
Caspian railroad.
In Turkey . native woman, whs stud.
led In this country. 10 now practicins
medicine.
In Burmah all women Of the loves
classes have q trade: nearly all the
retail trade Of the island II in their care
In Chill all car conductors. hotel and
postomce clerks are women.
onchunsa. New Zealand. has elected
Mrs. Yates mayor.
Miss Cree Stanley II the first wo-
man member Of the Sydney. Australia,
trade and labor council-being the DEL
egate Of the Female Employer union.
At 30 years old. and with pontifcata