The Washington herald., 1913-11-02

Interesting Jottinss Coucerning the
Dcinss of the Feminine Sex the
| world over.
Divorces are falling on IN Japan.
Marie corelli has taken to writing
cinema plays.
Germany has trade boards for female
home workers. "a
Queen Mary Of England is opposed to
Women have ruled the men for 500
years In Tibet, Asia .-.
In Pennsylvania there are 1863 males
to every 100 females.
Japan employs many women on the
newspapers in that, country.
Constantinople has a newspaper that
is run by seven Turkish women.
The National Union OF Women Clerks
in Germany has $4,000 members.
The women of Germany are opposed
to woman suffrage and prohibition.
Out of the 220 correspondents in New
York divorce cases 30 were blondes.
Female jockeys promise to be a regu-
lar feature Of races in France.
Nearly 1000 Jewish girls entered the
port Of New York during August.
Mrs. Lillian T. Clark Is making a.
aHW1a
Roswell, n. Mex.
On an average 500 teachers in New
York schools become brides every year.
Forty-four per cent OF the sales
women in New York City earn less
than 81 per week.
About 80 per cent of the stockholders
in the American Sugar Refining Com
pany are women.
Mrs. Eliza W. Fletcher has served
twenty-seven years as a police matron
in the Philadelphia police department.
Mrs. o. S. Barnum has been appointed
as member of the newly reorganized
State Board OF Education in California.
Co-eds at the University OF Missouri
have voted against the dismissal of their
friends at 1880 o'clock.
Speaker Champ Clark's sister.in-Iaw.
Mrs. Annie H. Pitzer, is a candidate for
postmistress at Colorado Springs, Colo.
Mrs. Eustace H. Brown, OF Olatha,
Kans., will act as official hostess for the
State Of Kansas at the Panama Exposi-
ton.
Smiths College, a female institution at
Northampton. Mass, has just succeeded
in raising a sl,oo0.o0O fund.
Mrs. Daniel Williams, who has Nerved
forty-four years at the keeper of lights |
on Lake Michigan, will retire on No.
vember L u
Although she is eighty-two years of |
age, the mother OF NJ Pierre Deschamps,
the best all around sportsman in France,
is an ardent golf player.
election officers in San Francisco to take |
the, places of two men who were re-
moved.
In Africa the women marry when they /
choose and do not have to tolerate the |
picking out Of a husband by their
parents.
New York is to have a school where
women can learn to run an automobile,
repair it or take to pieces and put II |
together again:
Norway has a law which makes girls
Ineligible for matrimony unless they can
show certificates of skill in cooking,
knitting, and spinning.
OF the eight cities in the United States
having 10000 or more population Balti-
more has the lowest number of males
to each 100 females, 92.i per cent
England has only twenty women in
spectors for over 100000 female workers,
and the National Council OF Women
have asked for substantial increase in
the force.
Duchess Helene Of Acosta, a princess
Of the Italian royal family, has started
On her fourth trip into the jungles OF
south Africa, where she will hunt big
game.
In the little village of Menouvllle, in
the southern part Of France, Madame
Garothas been elected Mayor, having
1SASdNcu neT nuSDanQ aIIer TWO ballots l.
had been taken by the council members.
So that she might personally conduct
her divorce suit against her husband,
Mrs. Isabella Avellinne Hammond, of
White Plains, N. Y. studied law ana
was admitted as a member of the bar.
Mrs. Alice de Rothschild, of Bucking-
hamshire, England. operates a model
larm and dairy on her vast estate, and
besides making speciality In butter,
raises all kinds Of blooded stock.
The proud Archduchess Isabella Marie,
who Is seeking to forget her unhappy
Ind short-lived marriage to her cousin,
Prince George, of Bavaria, is now work.
ng as an ordinary nurse in a famous
Vienna hospital
Although the women have no right of
outrage in Maryland, the courts in that I
State have decided that the name of
Mrs. Grace Koontz, OF Midland, Nd,
for county treasurer. may stay
IN the official ballot
Mrs. Alice NJ. Ettling, of Cortland, N.
Z, is the only woman exhibitor at the
Lnnual conventions Of the Carriage {
Builders National Association. She has /
lad displays at every convention since ,
$50 She Is at the head of the Galley ,
: Ettiing Company, manufacturers OF | I
'atent deyices for raising carriage tops. 7
While the patent was invented by her /