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

erect a woman , phloihS a. tIIC Cht
yersity of Colorado in T'emory Of Mrs.
Sarah Piatt Decker. The building
will be for the use OF needy women
students at the university. Mrs. Deck
er was a former president Of the Ma
tional Federation OF Women's Clubs
ard at the 81 ecial request of Govern
or Shafrolh her tCCy lay in stale in
the Capitol Cf CC'Craho for two hours
before burial. During this time all
the city and comfy offices Were clos
ed by order Of tie Mayor of Denver.
1t was the first time in the history
of Colorado that such an honor was
accorded woman.
Miss Florence +. NcArGle, for the
past two years in c1ar2e OF the wom-
ems department of tie employment
bureau connected with the University
of Boston, declares that IS per cent.
of the women students OF the univer-
sity are ooIiged either wholly or in
part to earn money to pay their way.
More than ha,f o. these students have
gradually come to accept employment
as semi-goI ernesses or semi-servants.
"One great trouble about providing
work for the girls, says Miss Near
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 a family and to do share of the
household work in return. In no case
do we let q girl go into household
in which ste is put to eat with tie
servants or is not allowed to eat with
the family" Miss McArdle is 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. She expects the aid
of the 'suffragists in her campaign.
"a quiet college professor, even
teacher of astronomy in woman's
college, may be live member of the
Commonwealth" Miss Hayes declared
when discussing her position as r"n-
didate. Whether there is one wom-
an or two or none at AL Oh " 3.
ct 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 be recog-
nized as human beings and in that ca
pacity they are to assume the duties
and acquire the rights of citizens"
! Miss Winnifred Whitcomb of Ever
EFT, Mass, is the youngest woman lee
turer in this country, She is a Oegu-
larly appointed lecturer. for the Ever
EFT grange and takes anaactive part in,
r1tualistfc work whenever degree is
to be conferred. She is t15. / =.
Karl Al. 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 Plum
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
TIM 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 emporium
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
been 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 number of years Mrs, Reed
was the president of the Illinois Wo-
mans Press Association. She is
of the International Congress
OF Orientalists, Royal Asiatic Society.
and Victorian Institute She is a ma
tive of Winthrop, Me-, and mother of
the late Myrtle Reed, the novelist.
The Florence Crittenden Associa-
ton has now seventy-three 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, y. D., to Houston,
Tex, and Atlanta, Ga. For a number