Arizona republican., 1911-04-03
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

try in active management of an elec-
 tric lighting plant.
 Sonora Diaz is the second wife of the president of Mexico and married
 him after he passed his fifty second
 birthday She is the daughter of
 Manuel Romero Rubia, a noted Mexi-
 can statesman, and is described as tal-
 ented, cultured and beautiful.
 Mrs. Antoinette D. Leach has been
 chosen president of the bar association of Sullivan county, Indiana. She is the only woman lawyer in her county. At
 the last election she was candidate for the legislature, believing that wom- en were eligible for the office. though not entitled to vote. She was not elected.
 Miss Helen Farnsworth Mears of oshkosh, Wis, has got the commission for a colossal figure to surmount the state capitol dome at Madison, Wis
 The figure is to be of a woman in
 Greek draperies. It is to be in bronze and sixteen feet high.
 Mme. Lawrence Fiedler has been sent to the United States by the French government to study the school system,
 
 lations of labor and capital. our indus trial training schools and the organi- zatiOns of our army and navy. Mime. Fiedler thinks that she will require at least ten years to complete her task and is sure she will not be homesick during that time. After spending three years in the work she asserts that the most marked characteristic of the Ameri- can people is their idealsm. Through out the country and in every field she finds them striving for perfection. Mme Fiedler was one of the delegates sent by France to the tuberculosis con- ference in Washington.
 Mrs O. H. P Belmont is receiving more applications for admission to her farm school for women at Hampstead. L. l., than she can grant. One hundred acres has just been offered by a wom- an to the government of Argentina to be used as a farm school. In Georgia a farm school for the mountain boys was founded by woman, almost as poor as the boys. Although it has been in op- eration less than fifteen years it is a flourishing institution
 Miss Fay Foster of Missouri has just won the second prize in a contest for the best waltz offered by weekly paper of Berlin. Germany. The prize is worth $500. There were more than 2,400 contestants and the first and third prizes were won by well known German musicians. Pictures of the three prize winners were exhibited in the window of the newspaper office and because of Miss Fosters attractive ap- pearance she is said to have received many offers of marriage.
 Mrs. Charles Park of Boston has re- ceived letter from the secretary of state saying that so per cent ,of the women in his state register and about 73 per cent vote. The secretary of state of Wyoming vote. The chief jus tice of the supreme court of Idaho and all his associate justices have pub lished a signed letter stating that the large vote boiled by the women of their state proves that they take lively in terest in politics. In Australia at the recent elections more than 100000 wom- en voted as against 6O0,00O men. In New Zealand at the first election after the granting of equal suffrage 1O9.461 women out of a colony of 139,91S cast their ballot, and the proportion has been increasing ever since.
 Connecticut is to have it's first wom- ans college. This college is to be To- cated at New London and the neces- sary money. with part of the land. has been donated. The college grounds will cover 240 acres. of which fifty have been given by Mrs Harriet A Allen. Mrs. Mary Turner. 96 years old, gave S1,000, while a poor woman, though her husband is out of work, declaring that she had lost a great opportunity through lack of education. sent in a of S1. The business men of New London made a ten days cam paign for the purpose of raising $1OO,- 900. When all contributions were turned over to the foundation commit tee it was discovered that $134, ,0OO had been raised. During the ten days the girls of the manual train ing school furnished a lunch every day at campaign headquarters to the com | mittee who were working for the fund | In the parade by which the citizens of | New London celebrated the event the | wife of the mayor walked at his side, | by the leading men and wom- en of the city. each and everyone | a lighted torch.
 Miss Frances Wilson. who has just | passed her twelfth birthday, received | the special prize for the ears of corn | which she exhibited at the Tri- City | Farmers institute recently held in Edgerton, Mo. Miss Wilson planted | md cultivated the corn entirely by her self
 The second International Congress of Child Welfare will be held in Washing on. D. C., April 26 to May 2. under the auspices of the Congress of Mothers The general subject under considera- ion will be The Duty of Home, School. Church and State to the Children" In | he future February 17 will be observed 'y the National Congress of Mothers as ounders day, each affiliated organiZa- Ion to observe the day in it's own l. way. This observance will be in honor f the two founders, Mrs. Theodore w 5irney and Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. Mrs II Sirney uttered the first public words n favor of organized motherhood in his country at Chautauqua in 1896. She next presented the matter at the ieneral Federation of Women's Clubs n her native state, Georgia, in 1897. frs. Birney's death occurred in 1908. EanHH~uaK~ Wl