The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING
ALL OVER. THE WORLD
By w'INIFRED SHORT.

Detroit working girls average S.2S per
week.
hotel for working girls is to be es-
tablished in Sioux City, Iowa.
Women teachers of Scotland are cam
paigning for equal pay for equal work.
The New York University has awarded
thirty-two women certificates as law
yers.
In Kansas there follows one applica-
ton for divorce for every seven mar
riages
In France the percentage of women
workers is higher than In any otner
country.
Eight per cent Of the members Of the
fashionable women's clubs in London
smoke.
The Wisconsin Senate has agreed to
again submit TO a State vote the ques-
ton Of woman suffrage.
The latest novelty is suspenders to sup
port women's skirts on the line of mas
culine devices.
Denver women object to proposed law
which would make it a crime to serve
liquor in saloons to women.
According TO official statistics, the
working population Of France includes
i150,O00 women and girls.
Women artists are carrying off nearly
all the honors at the exhibitions which
have opened recently in London.
A course in agriculture for girls has
been added TO the numerous other courses
at the University of Minnesota
Miss Inez Mrholland recently acted as
an assistant attorney in A case in New
York of a Chinaman accused of murder.
school has been established in Long
Island City where women can learn to
betcarpenters and bricklayers.
Mrs NJ F.. Sherman. of Fresno. Cal,
has been appointed by Gov. Johnson
as regent of the University of California
The easy starting devices which are
now put on motor cars has caused an
increase in the number of women driv-
ing their own cars
In an effort to secure better wages and
working conditions. the girls OF the Chi
cago department stores have formed a
union.
According to resolution recently
adopted women are to be admitted to
the Royal Geographic Society of Eng
land on the same terms as men.
The town council of Oleron, France,
has passed a resolution giving women
the right to vote and making them eligi-
BILE for municipal offices.
A scholarship in the English language
and literature at oxford University. Eng
land has been awarded to Miss Dorothy
Owen, of Toronto, Canada.
Mile Helene Dutrieu, the distinguished
woman aviator, has been decorated with
the ribbon of the Legion of Honor by
the French government.
Miss Celia NJ Howard. of Elgin, H.,
was awarded the first honors by the
State bar examiners recently with the
highest average out of class OF l37.
Mrs O. II. r. Belmont has been elected |
one If the United States delegates to
the international Woman Suffrage Con- |
gress 10 be held in Budapest, Hungary, |
next June.
A hill has been introduced in the Ohio |
Legislature providing for the appoint |
ment of commission of three members
to prescribe the fashions to be worn by
the women I'm Ohio"
The National Women's Life Saving |
League of New lork. has organized a
branch in San Francisco for the purpose
Of promoting women's athletics and the
keeping of records of the same.
Miss Marie Mcfarland. of Denver,
Colo. has been selected by Thomas A.
Edison as the possessor of the ideal
voice for kinetophone solos for use with
his latest invention.
Gambling is the national vice of Siam.
and the women are more given to 1t than
the men. The women in Siam have ar
equal right with the men to spend the
money which they earn in gambling II
they wish to do so.
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