The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-10-05
Interesting lettings Concerning the
Beings of the Feminine Sex
the World Over.

| iuterestlnS Jcttlnss Z OecrhinE inc
DoInSs of the Feminine Sex
the World Over.
men in England.
There is constant demand for women
in the medical profession.
Over $4,000 women are engaged In
dairyins and poultry raising in Belgium.
OF the 1850 members OF the school
boards in Jersey. only fOrty-nine are
women.
A college for working women, to be
known as Babel House, has been opened
in London.
What is said to be the best hospital
in Belgrade, Servia, is run entirely by
women.
being taught to read and write by
granddaughter.
The Stuggart Water and Electric Light
Company. OF Stuggart, Ark, is managed
by woman.
The only applicant for examination for
| the position of government entOmologist
was woman.
Telephone operators in. Egypt are re-
CURED TO speak English. French, Italian,
Greek, and Arabic.
Cincinnati will establish a municipal
fresh-air farm for poor and tired mothers
and children.
The new Dutch Cabinet has announced
its intention Of granting the women OF
Holland the right to vote
Dean Newberry. of the Wesleyan Uni
versity, recently compelled two pretty
co-eds to sew up their slit skirts.
In Colorado Springs and Colorado City
the women by their votes have rid their
cities of brothels and saloons.
Cleveland women are planning a Cham
Der of Commerce, which will be the first
women's Chamber of Commerce in the
world.
Queen Mary of England acts as
moving picture censor at a private eNhi
bition which is shown every morning at
Balmoral Castle.
Wages are not payable to a domestic
servant in England till the end of the
month for services rendered during that
month.
Messenger girls are the latest innova-
ton in Berlin. and they appear very
smart riding bicycles and wearing red
hussar uniforms.
wisconsins Industrial Commission has
refused the request Of several Milwaukee
| candy manufacturers 70 employ women
more than ten hours a day.
Miss Laura V. Keck, of Allentown, Pa,
has been reelected president of the
Women's Missionary Federation of the
Lutheran General Council
Mrs. Gussie Mashburn, of La Grange.
Ga, claims the record of being engaged
TO twenty-five men. foiled in five elope-
ments, and twice married at the age OF
seventeen.
Club women of Basin. wyo., rolled up
the sleeves and donned aprons recently
and then went to work in the canning
factories there to help out the home in
dustries.
Tho Oregon Welfare Commission re-
Gently made a decision that women
workers in that State can only work
nine hours. and the minimum pay shall
be sS.64 a week.
Under the conditions of the will Of Mrs
Thomas Barclay, of Glasgow. Scotland,
all widows in Perth who have attained
the age of fifty years will be entitled to
a pension.
Miss Clara c. Munson, Mayor of War
renton, Greg, is making good in such a
way that it is most likely that she will
have no trouble in being elected for a
second term.
During a strike at Phoenix. Ariz.. re-
Gently, three women took the places of
striking carmen, and in spite of the dis
orderly conduct operated their cars sue
cessfully. ....
When the French Parliament resumes
its labor next month, NJ. Ferdinand Bris-
son intends TO move the discussion of the
report in favor of giving the women of
that country the vote.
With an object Of helping to put the
British in the front place now occupied
by the American movies the Countess
of Warwick will enter the moving pic
ture field as a scenario writer.
Mrs. Agnes Ray, of Oakland, who has
been named by Gov. Johnson of Califor
mia. as one of the seven members of the
reorganized State Board of Education. is
a pioneer suffrage worker.
In Evigtuk. Greenland. the women and
men dress alike. and the only way to
tell female from a male is by the
lace decorations which the members of
the weaker sex wear on their collars.