The Washington herald., 1913-11-30
THE ACTIVITIES
OF MANY WOMEN
Interesting Jottings Concerning the
Doings of the Feminine Sex
the World Over.
by wINIFRED sHoRg

Doings OF the Feminine Sex
the World Over.
by wINIFRED SHORT.
Women taxpayers in Roumania have
municipal suffrage by proxy.
Miss Inez Cooley conducts bee ranch
in Southern California.
Women were admitted to the Swiss
universities as early as 1876.
English surfragists viii open wom-
ems theatre in DOndon next month.
Women medical students complete their
studies in shorter time than men.
Five Of the seven oranges in Cape May
County, n. j., have women masters.
In Utah an epileptic woman may marry
after the age of forty-five years, but not
before.
Women outnumber the men by 1.s1a in
New York City. according to the last
census.
The French Parliament has rejected
the bill granting the franchise to women.
The success Of the Wellesley rowing
eat fudge or dance.
Among the Malays the choice of pick
ing the wife does not belong to the
youth. but to his parents
One of the many women of England
royalty. who drive their own motor cars
is the Duchess of Westminster.
In saxony women vote on the same
terms as the men: married women by
by proxy and single women directly.
In Budapest women guides and inter
prefers wear a different colored ribbon
for each language they speak.
1t is estimated that 25.5a,754 women
over twenty-one years of ageSin the
United States want the franchise.
Although she is blind. Mrs. Emma Nc
Kinsey, of KokOmo. Ind, has made a
great success as a storekeeper.
Mrs. Catherine Haverty is at the head
of the Haverty Taxicab Company in New
York, which operates sixty takes -
Mrs. HERBERT, the nOted EnBlsh breeder
of dogs, will Judge the show Of the Pc
kinese Club in this country.
Having nothing else to do the women
cops in Los Angeles are now making
paper flowers TO decorate the jail.
Kaiser William, OF Germany. has is
sued orders to the effect that the tango
must not be danced at court balls.
Emmy Destinn. the opera singer. re-
Gently received 81, 800 for singing an aira
from ''Mignon" in a lions cage for the
movies.
Several women throughout the United
States have volunteered their services as
nurses in case this country goes to war
with Mexico
Miss Anna NJ. Jarvis. founder OF
Mothers Day" was instrumental in
settling the strike among the taxicab
chauffeurs in PHILADELPHIA.
One of the features of the operation Of
the motor buses in New York City will
be women conductors who will be at
tired in natty uniforms.
MISS JulleIIt AEucLls VI We" 1pIhs 10
making a determined fight to compel the
Civil Service Commission to make her an
inspector in the Bureau of Fire Preven-
ton.
The Board OF Education at Washington
has received a petition signed by several
hundred women asking that a woman
be elected TO succeed the retiring super
intendent.
The Oregon Industrial Welfare Com
mission has just prepared a recommen-
dation for women working in the various
industries, which puts the maximum
working hours at fifty-four per week.
Leipsic, Germany, has a normal coll
lege for women in which all females
over eighteen years Of age are admitted
as an auditor to all the lecturesandprac-
tical courses Of the college
Mayor-elect Mitchell, Of New York. is
in favor Of women suffrage, and II Is
women to important positions in the city
departments of Gotham"
In Japan the big coal barges are
manned by women, who remove the coal
to the ships. The girls stand on ths
rungs Of a ladder and pass the buckets
to one another over their heads.
Mrs. Mary Redfield, one Of the two
women who hold government licenses to
pilot boats on the upper Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers, has been handling boats
nearly all her life.
Women and girls work on the roads
in the Philippines, where there Is as
many as 500 of them employed at one
time on a new road. They are used to
an advantage in carrying sand, gravel
and water for the concrete work.
The giant electric plant at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, was set in motion sy the
Misses Annie and Jane Brady, grand
daughters of the late Anthony Brady.
who was at the head of the company
when II was organized.
DR.. Alonzo z. Taylor, professor Of ply
siological chemistry at the University
of Pennsylvania, says that today the
use Of alcoholic beverages by women Is
SO common as to provoke comment, and
is to be seen everywhere in public places.