The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-01
lUcnen and Society.
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 | A writer in The New York Sun says: | It is more than forty years since lGeneral Spinner. who mas vpeen e @ 'the father of the employment or wom- len in inc Federal service" found places Tor a few women in the Treasury De- ,artment at Washington. He was then treasurer of the United States. end there was a great dearth of eligible employees in consequence of the drafts made uIcn the young men of the coun- | fry by the employment of women in place Of men. and the fdea which he sta rted has gone on almost uninterrupt- edly since, but not to the extent that Is popularly supposed.
 By the last Government report it ap- pears that there are 122,000 men in the Federal service of the Government as clerks, bureau chiefs and messengers. of whom not one-half receive $850 a year or less.
 There are 11,25o women and girls in the Federal departments. of whom G. as3. somewhat more than half. receive less than $720 year. Of this number 1000 are in the postoffice service, 1.15o in the Treasury Department, 1,500 in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, LOCO in the Indian service. $50 in the Government printing ofice, 209 in the War Department, 797 in the Department of Agriculture and 19 in the Depart ment of State.
 Less than 10 per cent. of the Fed eral employees are women. and a great majority of them hold minor positions at small pay. An outcry was made after the close of the Civil War by those who feared that by the employ mept Of women and girls men were de- prived of fair chance of livelihood in Washington. but the fact is that the a n 1rxnE EA <4 much more largely than the number, of women in Federal departments during the last twenty-five years. .tV
 
 MINISTER APPROvES@DANcING.
 A Chicago minister, RAV. Arnold Ross In lecture at Ryder<Memorial Chapel suggests the buildinsof church dance hall as a means of&ombating the evil or public ball rooms in connection with his audiencefby aying:
 1t IS aust as natural for young pep pie to want to dance. I say. as for iampS to want to play God put the de- sire there. and If had a man who would give me the money I would erect a church which should provide the best facilities in the city for dancing, and would have there a company of young men and women who should dance the happy hours away. My saying this shocks you. know. but would do it." LEARN TO COOK,
 SAYS GERMAN EMPEROR.
 Berlin special says:
 It Is said that the German Emperor during his recent journey in Alsace addressed number of young girls who had come to greet him on his arrival, and told them that their most import ant duty was to learn to cook well in order to please their future husbands. THE LITERARY IGNo-
 RANCE OF GIRLS. Jeannette Marks in The Critic.
 The students were one year and a half removed from their preparation for entrance. Out of 1S6, ffty-three could not tell when Shakespeare lived, although either the sixteenth or seven teenth century would have been &C., cepted as correct. Two students placed him in the twelfth century; four in the fourteenth: twenty in the eigh- teenth. and four in the nineteenth cen tury. Sixteen students did not attempt to assign him at all. One hundred and fourteen students did not know in what century Milton lived. He was assign ed to the eleventh, fourteenth. fif- teenth, sixteenth, eighteenth and nine- teenth century, which the student, by