The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-13
xx,TH HAT THE WOMEN
Nv OF THE WORLD
!94 ARE DOING . .

The woman's branch of the National
River and Harbors association at
Washington is agitating the question
of turning the Virginia bank of the
Potomac river into a. national park.
Congress has been asked to take steps
to acquire the property. extending
from Washington to a short distan ,e
above the Great Falls. The women
wish to preserve its natural beauties
and have roads and pathways con-
structed. making a natural park.
OF the fourteen annual prizes
awarded last month by the Royal
Academy Of schools in London the ten
principal were won by women Sir
Edward PAINTER, president of the
academy schools. when giving out the
prizes said that the female students
are in earnest and work hard, while
the men are slack and either do not
kno how to work or do not care suf-
ficicntly.'
Miss Eleanor McMain has beer re-
elected chief worker of the Kingsley
Neighborhood house of New Orleans.
which recently celebrated its tenth
birthday. In making her tenth repor:
Miss McMain said that the Civic Inn
provement association and the Play
ground association. both of New Or
leans. had already secured four play
grounds and hoped to obtain at least
two more.
Miss Lucy Davis of Philadelphia re-
Gently addressed a French society near
Paris on h present state of woman
suffrage in the United States. Miss
Davis Is a great granddaughter OF
Lucreua Mott. h spoke in French
and it is said h will take an active
part IN the campaign being planned
by the French suffragists. The object
Of this campaign is said to be to nom
political positions.
Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliott and
Miss Ellen Glasgow are the women
writer's announced for this month as
converts to the cause OF woman suf-
frage. Miss Elliott recently delivered
an address before the Tennessee Equal
Suffrage association In Nashville. Miss
Glasgow's name was added to the IA
tionai literature committee at a recent
held in New York.
The organizing Of q .Woman's We'll
fare league in Minneapolis il said to
be the direct result Of the work Of
Miss Emily Glorieux. who is a police
woman Ihough Miss GlOrieux re-
ceived her appointment as policewo-
man late last autumn she has already
aroused the interest Of the women Of
Minneapolis to the necessity of I'M
proving the conditions Of the public
dance hall and Of protecting young
girl wage n There are now
seventeen public. dance halls on Miss
Glorieux's' list and she visits several
Of them every night, arresting and
sending nome girls who appear to he
under Fl. The Welfare league is urg-
ing the appointment .of two additional
pohcewomen to assist Miss Glorieux.
Miss Elizabeth Brown is the chait-
man of he committee, formed by club.
women in Washington to fight for
better conditions on the street cars.
Overcrowding. high steps and tho Inn
possibility Of holding on to q strap
with the present side seats are some
OF the evils complained OF. Several
thousand names have already been
signed to the protest which the COM
mittee fs circulating. At a recent pub
Tic meeting at which Miss Janet Ricn-
ards was the principal speaker. 500
new signatures were. added. Miss
Brown. has sent out a circular asking
~ those who have beee injured b.