Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-21
WOMEN ALTlVf
IN MANY Lines

1crsitv az Colorado in memory Of Ms.
Sarah Plat Decker. The building
will he for TIE use Of needy women
students 1T TIE university. Mrs. Deck
er was a former president of the Ma
tional Federation of Women's Clubs
aid at the sIecial request of Govern
or Shafr0th E,r body lay in Sta,e in
tie Capi'ol e CO Nrqtn for two hours
before burial! During this time all
tire city and county oIlceS were clos
ed by order CT tie Mayor of Denver.
1t was THO fist tire in the history
OF Colorado that sucA an honor was
accorded . woman.
Miss Florence +. McArGle, for the
past two years III c! &c OF the wom-
ems de par;ment Of the employment
bureau connected vita the University
of Boston, declares that IS per cent.
of the women students OF the univeT-
sity are obliged either wholly or in
part to earn money to pay their way.
More than ra'f 0f'tAcse students have
gradually come to accept employment
as semi-go> ernesstS or semi-servants.
"Ore great trouble. about providing
work for tie gir.s, says Miss McAr-
die, lis that the opportunities for
work are so much more limited for
them than for the men. So far the
most feasible plan, in my opinion, is
for them TO live rent and board free
in family and to do share of the
household work in return. In no case
do we let a girl go into household
in which SIZE is put to eal with the
servants or is not allowed to eat with
the family" Miss McArdle is a grad
uate of the Boston University of the
class of 1912 and worked her way
through as head of the employment
bureau for women students.
Miss Ellen Hayes, professor of as
tronomy in Wellesley College, Is
candidate for Secretary of State for
Massachusetts STE expects the aid
of the suffragists in her campaign.
"A quiet college professor, even
teacher of astronomy in woman's
college, may be a live member of the
Commonwealth" Miss Hayes declared
when discussing her position &c o1-7-
didate. Whether there is one WON.
an or two or none at All o,t I 4
eI is, as | view it, matter of no
special Importance The point tnat is
of Importance is that the day is at
hand when women are to he fecog-
nized as human beings and in that ca
pacity they are to assume the duties
and acquire the rights of ciIizt MS"
Miss Winnifred Whitcomb of Ever
EFT, Mass, is the youngest woman lee
turer in this country. She is a tegu-
1arly appointed lecturer for the Ever
EFT grange and takes an active. part in
ritualistic, work whenever degree is
to be conferred. She isis.
Karl A. Richers of Salem is a rival
of the girl lecturer of Everett. He has
just celebrated his eleventh birthday
and has been delivering his lecture,
"A City Boys Vacation on a Farm
for more than year Last winter he
lectured before every class in the
Saltonstall School and in the PUN
mer Farm School as we'll as before
various boys clubs.
Miss Florence Marshall has been
appointed principal of the Manhattan
Trade School for Girls Before being
called to take her new office in New
York Miss Marshall was the superin-
tendent of the women's department of
the Industrial Educational Board for
massachusetts. While in Boston she
was largely responsible for the estab-
llshment of the Boston Trade School
for Girls. Miss Marshall thinks that
New York has the greatest opportun-
lty in the world to prove the value of
trade training for women.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Reed of Chicago
has the distinction of being the only
woman in the world whose work has
teen accepted by the Philosophical
Society of Great Britain. For more
than two years her book on Persian
and Hindu literature was sent the
rounds among the leading scholars of
the world and finally passed the test
and was accepted by the British So
ciety.
For a number of years Mrs. Reed
was the president of the Illinois Wo-
mans Press Association. She is a
member of the International Congress
of Orientalists, Royal Asiatic Society.
and Victorian Institute. She is a ma
tiye OF Winthrop, Me-, and mother of
the late Myrtle Reed, the novelist.
The Florence Crittenden AssOcia-
ton has now seve~tythree homes in
the United States and five are main
tanned in as many other countries.
More than 5000 women were assisted
by these homes during the past year
In the United States the homes are
scattered from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, from Fargo, ~ D., to Houston.
Tex, and Atlanta, Ga. For a number
of years Mrs. Diaz was the president
OF the home in the city of Mexico.
There is home in Japan and another
IN Shanghai. These homes all heay
the name Of a New York girl, the ONLY
child of the man who started tic