The sun., 1912-07-14
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

! The first Egyptian Woman's League
has just been form ed with headquarters
in Alexandria. The object OF this first
4 organization among modern Egypt ian
women is TO defend womens interest
in all directions and especially TO consider
means OF providing schools for Egyptian
girls. There are now said TO be more
than twenty-five thousand young Egyp-
tan women and girls in the Government
~ hools and almost twice as many for
whom no provision has been made. The
demand for teachers FAR exceeds the sup
ply and the Governmen; school Ncilir iss
funds and buildings are entirely made
quate.
DR.. Ethel Fraser is the first woman
- he appointed county physician in
Denver. Col. She was indorsed by the
Womcn's Public Sc vie" League and
other women's organizat ions. There
are two county physicians in Denver
and only the women who apply for treat
ment will bc turned over to DIR. Fraser.
Mrs. Jane Appleby OF Tulsa, Okla,
started life az a washer woman and last
week when she celebrated her eighty
second birt day her property was rated
al more than quarter Of a million dol
lars.
/ Mrs Appleby invested her first savings
earned at tho washtub in a COW and
began TO raise cattle. Several Texas
cattiemcn. who shipped thousands of
cattle into the Territory every spring.
told her that she might have the calves
whose mothers died on the trip. She
spent all the time she could spare from
her washing on the range looking up
these mothcrlcss calves.
Her herd increased and she began to
ship cattle 10 the large centres at the
rate OF ten thousand dollars worth year
She became known as the Cattle Queen
OF Oklahoma. She gave up cattle raising
seven years ago ana to keep herself busy
has adopted several small children. the
latest baby girl taken from a st. Louis
orphan asylum.
A trade and training school for women
Is soon TO be erected in FL Paso. Tex. This
institution is made possible by the will of
the late Frank B. Cotton. who believed that
the many needy women in that part Of he
South would become self-supportinR IL
they knew how to work. 1t il TO be free
institution to teac young girls and women
some occupation by which they will b.
able to earn an honest living.
Miss Mary r. Burgess. resident
director OF the Roxbury Neighborhood
House. Boston. has just resigned her
p osition after twenty-five years Of
service. The Neighborhood House was
Rrt established and entirely sup
ported by Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw. In
addition to the day nursery. which il had
when Miss Burgess took charge. it now has
kindergarten, a children's club, boys'
club. u girls club, a young peoples club,
q womans neiGhborhood club. the club
union and classes in cooking. dancing.
cobbling, dressnnk king and clay modelling,
gymnasium and music class beside many
social and saving systems. Spea king Of
the life and usefulness ofa social worker
Miss Burgess said:
in order to be q success social worker
has got to be one OF her people. They
must feel that shs Ia one OF them, always
willing to share their SORROWS and their
joys. A settlement cannot give a thorough
trade training, but 1t can give means Of
self-expression in it's handioraft classes.
The young worker needs this to prove to
himself and his advisers his aptitude and
ability to work.