Arizona republican., 1910-11-05
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WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Dr. Lydia De Witt Is the first woman
 to enter the employ of the health de-
 partment of St. Louis. She has just
 been appointed assistant city bacteri-
 olOgist. Dr. De Witt was formerly in- structor in pathology and embryology at the University of Michigan, from which she was graduated in 1898.
 Miss Agnes Nestor of the Glove Max CTS union recently occupied the pulpit
 of the Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones of Chicago and preached a sermon on the condition of working women in the
 United States.
 Mrs. J. P. Mcdonnell of Paterson,
 N. J., was recently elected county li-
 brarian as a nominee of labor unions.
 Miss Mabel Seedy has been appointed inspector of customs at san Diego, Cal,
 by the treasury department Miss Amy Wrenn and Mrs Harriette John stone Wood are preparing to have bills introduced at the next session of the New York legislature for the purpose of doing away with some of the al legged injustice in the laws relating to married women's property.
 The empress of Germany has re- ceived a letter signed by the heads of various women's organizations in ans wer to the recent speech of the kaiser in which he urged the women of ger many to initiate Queen Louise and to seek to be good housewives and moth CTS and nothing else. In the letter to the empress the women give statistics showing that there are four millions of German women who are wage earners besides being housewives and mothers. We would gladly confine ourselves to our duties at home if permitted" wrote the women to the empress. But our husbands earn so little that to keep the family going and pay the taxes we are compelled to disobey the kali ser's order. If your majesty can change the economic conditions of the father land we would be very deeply obliged"
 Marie von Ebner- Echenbach has just celebrater her eightieth birthday and the Goethe society bestowed its new medal on her as the leading German poetess of the day. A special fund will be collected which will be disposed of according to her judgment Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach was the first wom- an on whom the University of Vienna
  She was also the first woman on whom the Austrian emperor conferred the Ehrenzeichen for arts and sciences.
 Baroness Aletta Korff, an American girl and a Bryn Mawr graduate, who is the wife of an official in Finland, is re- ported as saying that one of the first things the women of Norway did with their ballots was to get the government to start schools for domestic training girls These schools are intended to teach young girls to become efficient and capable wives and mothers" says the Baroness. ''Theq are becoming a most valuable factor in the cultural of the country and are do- ing more than perhapes could be done in any other way to raise the general standard of living"
 Miss Emma M. Gillett, chairman of the congressional committee of the Ma tional American Woman Suffrage asso- tiation, reports the result of question ing congressional nominees as follows: | Tn Alabama two of the nominees are in | favor of full suffrage, one for partial | suffrage: in California seven are for ] full suffrage; Idaho, one for full | SulIIdRe ana Ine OlHeT II NOIltH uc- 1 sire it": Indiana, six for full suffrage | with one for when the majority of the | want it'; Iowa, two for full | Kansas, seven for full | suffrag and one for when a majority | of the women want it." In Kentucky | one nominee says he is not opposed, | vhilc the other agrees to partial In Maine one candidate is for partial suffrage. In both Maryland | and Mississippi all candidates heard from are in favor of full suffrage, | while Tennessee has one candidate who favors full suffrage and another who favors partial suffrage. Texas re- ports two for full suffrage and one against In Virginia E. w. Saunders reports in favor of suffrage when a majority of the women want it, while n Pennsylvania there are seven can