Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-04

9idnCcS o1tcTcr at the CLOCK ana neT mirror
than she docs at her desk, there are score
who arc conscientious, industrious, and eff
ficicnt.
OF the women workers, 25l are of foreign
birth, .5iS are widowed" and Ill are di-
vorccd, some have husbands, and q will not
tell even the Census man whether they are
single, married, widowed or divorced. OF
course this makes a bad blot on the stats
teal record; but what can even Census Of
ficcr, armed as he is with all sorts of author
ity, do when a woman will not answer his
questions. "A woman will or won't, de-
pend ont. If she will dot, she will; and
| there's an end ont"
| However, it somewhat mars the applica-
| bitv of this quotation to note the fact that
| there are more contumacious men than
women In Justice let this be recorded OF
| the "a who refused to tell their marital con-
| dition, 73 were males! Let them go at that,
| in the contemptuous reference of the Census
reports, "nlalcs.' and of the 65 who
| refused to tell their ages, which seems to be
question less ruffling to sensitive feelings
| than the other one, it may be assumed that
men were again in the majority.
Subclerical or manual work claims 3,799
women, to 1922 employed in clerical work.
1t is with the higher class that the vista
opens more invitingly, leading to independ-
/
if not to wealth. There are 176 women who
are in professional, technical, and scientific"
employment. while Is have executive po-
sitions and 76-rather strangely, it seems
are classed as mechanical" employees.
| Uncle Sans bachelor girls are mostly old
enough to know their own minds, and per-
haps that is why they stand by him SO faith
| fully. Few of them-only 1874, in fact-are
under twenty, and only 81 are over seventy,
not counting the one who admits that she is
past eighty and not ashamed of it either.
But consider the fresh young things between
| twenty and twcnty-four, S34 OF them-long
may they remain in that division, There are
203 girls of twenty-five, 1919 of twenty-six,
1874 of twcnty-seven, 1919 of twenty-eight,
and l65 of twenty-nine. The thirties are
fairly popular Between thirty and thirty
four there are $50. and between thirty-five
and thirty mine. 1873. The forties are less in
| favor. The first half of this division num-
| bcrs 465. while the second division shows
| falling off to 366 Some of the bachelor girls
have evidently been falling by the wayside
and accepting the chiefship of the domestic
science branch in an establishment hymeneal.
Or perhaps they have enough savings in
stocks and bonds and houses to enable them
to retire to their own flresides Anyway,
they grow fewer with advancing ages, and
DclNCcH lilly anu IllN years lIlty die
only 376. Women over sixty are not scarce.
There are 176 of them between sixty and
sixty-ninc still at work, holding their own in
responsible positions, many of them ranking
as experts who could i'll be spared
N/HAT can a woman earn in the Govern
!" mcnt service 1t all depends on the in
dividual; for the Civil Service knows neither
sex nor race nor hue of skin. 1t is merely
matter of fitness; though you may hear diff
fcrcntly. Women in Government service
earn all the way from the compensation gen
| orally and rather vaguely described as @less
than 500 up to $500 year. There are
2,3S4 in the lower class; but of the Ill di-
vorccd women only 81 are in this class, and
of the l ,54S widows only 675 are numbered
with them. inexperienced and unskilled
must be the most of these 1884. As for the
rest and the figures are full of interest 354
| receive between $500 and 81 600; 462 be
tween 81 900 and $1,000; 1877 between
81 200 and 81 400: 292 between 81 400 and
| 81 800; % between 81 500 and 1,SOO; Is
between 81 800 and $1,000; ) between
81 900 and 50. 800; and only one, a woman
past forty, who presumably has skill and ex-
| pcricncc to recommend her, who gets more
| than $500 year. There are 1856 Others