Iditarod pioneer., 1912-02-10

The World Of
 Women

Mrs. A. l.. Cnantlef or Tacoma has been appointed Assistant Labor Con- missioner for the State of Washington. She succeeds Mrs Mason.
 Mrs. Anna Maria Fisher, who in her girlhood was the slave of Henry Clay. died recently and left SlO, ,o0o to Tuske- gee Institute. Mrs. Fisher lived in Brooklyn and is said to have left for tune valued at over 75,000, much of it to charity.
 Two of the most eloquent speakers in the recent campaign in California are said to have been Chinese women living in San Francisco. Mrs J. Jung is graduate Of the Canton Normal School and Miss B. Loo a graduate ot he University of California.
 Two hotels for women are soon to be built in Chicago. The Alumnae As sociation of Graduate Nurses is plan nig one near the center of the city. The Chicago clubwomen, under the leadership of Mrs. John Sherwood, arc plapning another especially for women students.
 Chicago women have formed a plan to overcome the high price of food and marketing clubs will solve the prob lem. These clubs will buy food in quantities when it is cheap and store It. Then it will be distributed to the consumers at cost price. It will be federation of marketing clubs, various parts of the city having their own clubs. It is thought that the cost of living may be thus reduced about 50 per cent. Mrs. Minnie s. Grainger, president of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, is one of the prom inent women interested in the move ment.
 Miss Lucy Page Gaston. founder and .,resident of the National Anti-Cigar- cite League, who recently was ap- pointed police woman in Chicago. an- nounces that she has in hand fund of more than slO,O00 subscribed for fight jag cigarette smoking. Miss Gaston 'taus 10 form chapters of boys through out the country to help her. Litera
 ure setting forth the effects of cigar cite smoking on growing boys will be distributed. Through her foreign or ganizer, Dr. NJ. C. Wilcox, chapters will be f ned in G,'eat Britain and on the continent of Europe.
 Miss Edith Campbell of Cincinnati is said 10 be the first woman for whom President of the United States has ever voted. She is the first woman elected to any public office in Cincin uati, and the first candid t. ever elected to the Board of Education on an in- dependent ticket. Miss Campbell is d graduate of Cincinnati University. She was appointed by Governor Harmon to the state board of women visitors to inspect public charitable institutions. duu IS SaIQ lO nave DSeH IdtStlS IC- SpunSible for the investigation of con Iitions in the Delaware (Ohio) Indus trial Home for Girls.
 The Duchess Hohenberg of Vienna is reported to have proved the value of red wine as an aid to the production of hens eggs. The duchess is said to have been advised to try wine on her poultry by Professor Joubert of Fon- Dainbleu, Selecting dozen healthy neas, the duchess fed six of them on wine-soaked food, at the rate of one glass each day. The other six had their ration soaked with water. Within four months the wine fed hens had laid l4S more egg that those drinking only water, Eggs of the wine fed hens are said to be much larger and of finer quality. Tho cheapest grade of red wine was used.