The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Miss Anna Pritohett Of Louisville, Ky,
has just been appointed TO the chair OF
economies at Wellesley College. She has
just passed her twenty-nfth birthday and
Ii the youngest member Of the Wellesley
faculty.
A shortage Of 400 school teachers IL
reported in Oklahoma. The cause IL said
to be the small salaries Of women teachers.
The club women declare that II the salaries
Of the women teachers were made to equal
those Of the men the shortage would cease
to exist. In the meantime women out OF
employment are looking to Oklahoma for
places during the coming school term.
North Carolina has just acquired it's first
woman dentist. Mrs. d. z. Mcclure Of
Asheville having obtained a license to
practise from the North Carolina Dental
Association.
Over thirty millions Of dollars were given
by women to philanthropy during the past
year. Mrs. Russell Sage gave more than
any other n person with the single ex-
ception Of John d. Rockefeller. While
some Of her gifts are not large they mean
much to some young people. She recently
ave 81, TOO to pay the rent of the school
building OF the Pascal Institute in New
York city and to cover the expenses Of free
vacation classes for young children. To
Sag Harbor, L. J.. she gave the fair grounds
10 be turned into a park especially for
changing the name Of the village to Sage
Harbor she declared that the old place
should cling to is original name.
Miss Ross Becker has been appointed
q claim agent and United States pension
attorney in Missouri. She has been known
for q number OF years as one OF the most
notary public and an insurance agent.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has sent a letter
to the London Times in answer to Mrs.
Humphry Wards recent attack upon the
woman suffrage cause In America. Mrs.
Howe has lived in America for nearly ninety
years and thinks that she knows condi-
tions here better than a transient English
tourist. Mrs. Ward attributed the alleged
decline In the movement to the organized
opposition Of women. Mrs. Howe says:
4The change In favor Of the movement
among women il especially marked. The
organised opposition among women ia
very small compared with the organized
movement in Its favor. Out Of forty-six
States only four have anti-suffrage asso-
Citations. and two Of these are almost too
small to be properly called associations.
There are suffrage associations In thirty
three States and several Territories. At
the time Of the last constitutional conven-
ton In New York the sufiragists secured
500. 900 signatures to their petition, while
the ants secured only 10000
Miss Ruby Abrams, who was recently
graduated at the head Of the art class in
Cooper Institute. is deaf and until a few
years ago was also dumb. She has been an
art student ever since she was graduated at
the head OF her class six years ago at the
Deaf Mutes. She has the record Of having
won four prizes during her art course.
A missionary deaconess In Liberia has
edited in native dialect a book containing
the Ten Commandments. the Apostles
Creed. the doxology and a number Of the
best known hymns. The book is not only
the first book published In the dialect but
the first successful attempt 70 make it a
written language.
Miss C. de Il. Benest is the first woman
driver Of a motor omnibus in England.
She was the only woman to take the ex-
animation for motor engineering recently
held In London. and easily took both the
drivers certificate and hat for mechanical
proficiency awarded by the Royal Auto
mobile Club. II is said that Miss Benest
learned motoring In her own car on the
Isle Of Wight and that she possesses un-
usual talent as q machinist.
One hundred young women have been