The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-27
Interesting lettings Concerning thu
Doings of the Feminine Sex the
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Munich, Germany. has women street
cleaners.
Wellesley College girls average 500 a
year for pin money.
Domestic servants in Austria are now
publishing a monthly paper.
The blind telephone girl has been tried
and proved a success in Baltimore.
! There are 495 women county school sup
erintendents in the United States.
! 1t costs 50 week for a working girl
TO live in Boston and so in New York.
Kansas has forty-nine women as county
school superintendent, while Colorado
has forty-three.
Sixty per cent of the saleswomep over
sixteen years of age in New York City re-
ceive less than $3.50 per week.
Dr. Mary Walker has made application
| to Secretary of the Interior Lane for the
appointment as Commissioner of Pen
sions
Tyro, Kans., has elected a woman Mayor
and three women as members of Council.
which give the women a majority over the
men.
Helen Keller the blind deaf mute, has
been asked to become a tutor of the deaf
and dumb heir to the throne Of Spain.
Nine. Jane Dieulafoy the famous French
Iarchaeologist, proposes to organize bat
talon of women as reserves for service
in time of war.
A st. Louis packing house opened
manicure parlor for their 125 girl en-
ployes, so as to promote hygiene and in
sure meat from becoming inoculated.
The recent municipal elections in Swe-
den resulted in the election of eighteen
new women councillors, making a total
of sixty-two councillors in that country.
Miss Kerstin Heselgren, who has been
appointed factory inspector in Sweden,
is the first woman to be appointed to such
a position in that country.
Nearly 100000 women are in the employ
of the United States government, and
about 1,500 of these are serving under civil
service appointments.
A new occupation for women in Austria
Is the arrangement of window boxes and
balconies in flats which are filled with
Towering trees, plants and creepers.
With appointment to four women to city
offices in Kansas City, Kans., the five
most important positions in the govern
ment Of that municipality are now held by
women.
Mime. Asia Neilson-Gad, Of Denmark, is
the queen of the film drama In Europe,
I,ax ,,,1o taI h1yo
for moving pictures.
The most successful fox hunter in Mas
sachusetts is Miss Helen B. Elcock, Of
Quincy, who last year killed twenty-four
red and one black fox with her rifle.
Clergymen in ST. Louis are advocating
the placing Of women college graduates on
the police force in that city, whose duty
1t would be to watch wayward girls
The only woman master mosaic worker
in England Is Miss Gertrude Martin, whose |
work was recently unveiled in the chapel |
of the Westminster Roman Catholic Ca |
thedral
Miss Inez Milholland. the suffragist lead |
er, is now full hedged lawyer. having |
been sworn in by the judges Of the ap- |
pellate division of the New York courts |
OF girls in India who have not COM
pleted their fifth year 800. AS are wives
and 17,703 widows, while 2,500o0O girls in |
their second lustrum are wives and IL, 900 |
A position never before held by a worn
an, that of counsel for the defense at the |
High Court or Justice in Norway, is now
held by Fraulein Elise Sims. who is said
10 be one of the ahlest LAWYERS In that
country.