Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-15
ABOUT WOMEN

Now York state Federation OF Wo-
mems Clubs is asking that court pe
established that will consider cases IN
volving domestic relations exclusively
and are urging before the legislative
committee the enactment of a law pro-
vidine for a court solely for the trial OF
arir,i1aI cases against women. Inc
cluh members propose that a specIa,
court house with a prison attacneu' anu
women attendants be provided
Women in the association opposed to
granting suffrage to women IN ne"
York have written to Governor ausnes
aslxine him to appoint more women Oh
institntion boards and state commas
sions They say that this is the saiest
method of utilizing at the present tAne
the capabilities of women ana tneir IN
terest in the public welfare wi.lV ~
exposing our civic institutions TO the
risk attendant upon granting to women
unrestricted suffrage"
Chicago is one of the few cities IN the
country where the women nave an atm
letic club which Is in every respect as
complete as such clubs for men. MRS.
Frederick w. Upham was recently
elected the president. Mrs. T. u. Ar
mour is the honorary president, and
Mrs, Theodore Thomas an honorary
member. The latest addition to the
club is the Turkish bath.
There are said to be 100000 OF wo-
men working as domestics or as farm
laborers, the latter for the most part III
thee south. and 100000 are working IN
other occupations of the country.
Among the 5000 900 workingwomen are
nearly a. million widows and nearly S0o,-
600 married women whose husDands
have failed to provide for them. Nearly
10O. 600 divorced women are also among
the wage-earners. The natural pro-
tector'' of the woman seems TO De ap-
sent in nearly every one of these cases,
and the man has put the woman to
work in many cases.
owen r. Lovejoy, general secretary OF
the national labor committee, SAID re-
Gently at a child labor convention in
Chicago that the fight for child labor
laws would have been won hut for the
efforts of members of the senate. Pages
are hired at SIS month, but the prin-
cipal opposition, he said, came from
senators who own factories in which
children are employed.
Chicago club women have arranged a
tour of Europe this summer, and club
women from all parts VI lno Souitl
have been invited to join them. In the
various countries through which they
pass lectures will be arranged for, so
that an educational value may be CIV
en- to the trip. The trip was planned
at the Boston biennial, and the party
will sail from Montreal on June Is, and
sail for home on August II:
So
Muriel White, daughter of the Amer
lean ambassador to France. is so popu-
lar in London that her girl friends
have sent her a round robin begging
her to be married there. Meanwhile a
most wondrous trousseau is being made
for the brde-elect. some of which is be-
ing gathered in London by the same
dressmaker who hurriedly made an ex-
ouisite outfit for her as debutante
when, with her father, she was sud-
denly summoned to join the house party
at windsor castle to meet the late
king and queen of Portugal Both
Carlos and Queen Amelia were greatly
taken with the young American girl
and the dead king took numbers OF
snapshots of her Not few British
suitors have been badly hit by the news
of her engagement.