Arizona republican., 1910-09-23
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Mrs. Pauline Adams in behalf of the Woman Suffrage association of Nor folk. Va, is questioning the three can didates for congress in that district on how they stand on cO-education in the University of Virginia.
 Helen Fitzgerald Sanders has been adopted into the tribe of Pigeon Indi- ans on the BlackfoOt reservation in nothern Montana. Muche-ni-ku is the name given her by the tribe and means The Fine Kill" Mrs. Saunders home is in Butte and for several years she has spent her summers among the Indians for the purpose of collecting their tribal traditions.
 Mrs. Nellie Nugent Somerville of Greenville, Miss, has been elected for the fifth time president of the Missis- sippi Woman Suffrage association. She was the first president of the Home Missionary Conference society, secre- tary of the Board of Home Missions and state corresponding secretary of the w C. T. U. She was educated at Martha Washington college, Abing- don, Va.
 The Woman's Auxiliary of the Amer lNdI opNitNN lbl ALI AtNNANApiA V- Cruelty to Animals has been incor porated as a separate body which will be known as the WOnran's League for Animals. This step was taken to avoid confusion. The officers are Mrs. James Speyer, president; Mrs. Edward Wharton, vice president; Mrs. Robert G. Mead, secretary, and Miss Maria Winthrop, treasurer.
 Miss Inna Shepherd is said to be the only woman who holds the place of secretary to a clearing house associa- tion in this country. She has held the post in Birmingham, Ala, for more than five years. She handles the clearings of eight banks, amounting to between S12.OO0.00O and s15,000.0O0 d month. She is, moreover. a fine horse woman and sings in a church choir and at concerts.
 Mrs NJ A Baldwin was recently elected school trustee at Groton, N. Y. She is the president of the Political Equality League and more than half the men present at the school meeting are said to have voted for her. Al though the only woman on the board. she was made a member of its eXecu- tive committee.
 Mme. Hankel of Dresden was one of the speakers at the Esperanto congress recently held in Washington. Speaking of the progress of women in Germany Mrs. Hankel said: When I was young d girls education usually stopped when she was IA. Now girls mot only are allowed to attend schools much longer but they are allowed to go higher. The number of girls attending these high CT schools increases every year. Not very long ago women were not allowed to labor except in few departments. Now women's labor is accepted in eV- cry department and they work along with men, one of our aims now is that women shall have the same rights be- fore law as men in regard to money matters. Not very long ago woman had no right to dispose of her own money, but had always to get a man to manage for her"
 Miss Alice Thompson, University of California. 1905, is the soil chemist at the Hawaiian Agricultural Experiment station, Honolulu She will return to the United States this fall and enter Columbia university for advanced studies in chemistry.
 Professor Mary A Wilcox has been made professor emeritus of the depart ment of zoology of Wellesley college She had for twenty-seven years been the head of that department at Welles- ley Following her graduation from the state normal school at Salem, Mass. she taught for three years. She then studied in the Massachusetts ln- stitute of Technology, at Newham col lege. England, and at the University or Zurich. where she was elected a fel- low of the American Association for Advanced Science. She is member of the Society of American Biologists. the Boston Society of Natural History and the Society of American Natural ists.
 pr. Belle J. Allen is physician in charge of the Hospital for Women and Children which as just been erected in