The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-07
WHAT WOMEN =
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Female Machinists a Chicago In
shtuhon-Bosto Girls as Dog
Walker" Engineers Daughter
Runs Engine In Missouri.

Walkers" Engineers Daughter
Runs Engine In Missouri.
VVYoMEN are preferred as ma
wv chinists in many of the big
plants in Chicago. Foreign
ers are mostly employed. be-
cause American girls, as explained by
a foreman. object to coming in contact
with the oil and dust of the shop and
because the wages are small Many
of the employees were married women
who found that sort Of life a failure.
and they drifted into the machine
shops. They learn the trade much
more readily than men or boys. Three
dollars week is paid to beginners
in most of the plants.
A new field for the wage earning
woman Of BOStOn-namely. the calling
of dog walkers" has been opened by
the Animal Rescue league of that city.
Young girls are reported to be much
in demand among the Bostonese. who
employ them to lead their pet dogs
out for daily airings. The president
of the league pronOunces the work
easy and healthful.
The Woman'S Christian Temperance
union at its recent convention in Oma-
ha decided to organize it's own print
ing plant in which to do its own work.
to abolish the Chautauqua salute for
sanitary reasons and to establish Feb.
II. the anniversary of the death of
Miss Frances Willard. as special me-
mortal day on which contributions to
the Frances Willard memorial fund
are to be made
Miss NJ. Cary Thomas. president of
Bryn Mawr college and chairman of
the committee that has gathered sta
tistics concerning college women in the
United States, reports that when men
and women were educated together
when the sexes were educated apart.
Her report also showed that married
college women had an average of SO
children each. while noncollege women
had an average Of 3.5 children, al
though college women married later
in life.
Mary Adelman, sixteen years old. is
believed TO be the youngest of her sex
to understand the running of rail-
road locomotive. Her father is a vet
eran engineer on the Chicago and AL
ton railroad. Mary used to meet his
train when it reached the end Of the
old engineers run and ride with him
did this every run for many months
and in that way picked up her knowl-
edge of the locomotive She was won
derfully quick. and now she is able to
take locomotive for short run. but
she never does SO alone. although her
father believes that she is competent
to handle an engine as well as he is.
The home of the old engineer is Slater.
Mo-
Queen Alexandra's bedroom at Bal
moral castle is paneled in pale rose
silk. with hangings of white satin.
those of the bed being surmounted by
the imperial crown. The curtains of
her bOudoir are of ivory silk bOrdered
with heliotrope Here the panelings
are Of ivory silk in gilt mountings.
Beauvois tapestry, French carpet and
Louis XVI. furniture give the room
splendid appearance. Her majesty's
bathroom is fitted with a bath of Gre
clan marble from quarries which had
not been worked for 1000 years.
Miss Rose l.. Fritz. the champion
typist of this country. says that piano
playing is hindrance to typewriting
at least she finds it SO in her own
case. The successive stroke on the
key of a type machine is the proper
one. She never allows her finger to
rest upon letter-in fact. she takes
the letters off her machine and sub
stitutes celluloid caps as being more
comfortable for the finger tips. She
never looks at the letters on her key
board. having accustomed herself to
that when she was learning. She has
educated her fingers so that she knows
by them when she makes a mistake.
She also says. what most people know
who use the type machine. that there
can be no speed unless the machine is
absolutely clean.
A young woman has been called to
the pastorate Of the First Congrega-
tional church in Tewksbury. Mass,
and will take up her duties during the
present autumn. The Rev. Sarah A.
Dixon was formerly an assistant pas
tor at Lowell. She has Travelled extern
sively and is an entertaining speaker
and quite progressive. The church in
Tewksbury which will be under her
charge is an old organization and has
always had ministers Of the opposite
sex.
In South Carolina $4,000 has been
subscribed for a monument to COM
memorate the work of southern women
In the civil war. No woman was per-
mitted to give penny. The monu-
ment is a tribute from southern chiv