The Washington herald., 1913-07-20

| Women can do most anything In
England except practice law.
| Over 10000 women are employed in
the British postal service.
Great Britain employs about a.ooe.ose
domestic servants.
In France they think that women
should marry at the age of twenty-five
years.
In one tobacco factory in japan there
are over 1000 girls employed.
Under a new rule Philadelphia school
teachers will receive old-age pensions
The only woman hre inspector In
New York City 10 Mrs Sarah Christo-
pher.
| Eixhty per cent Of all the teachers In
the New Jersey school ars women.
Turkish women are said to be far
ahead Of their sisters OF some othef
countries.
Mrs william ]. Bryan. wife Of the
Secretary Of State. acts as her own
chauffeur.
| In the silk mills Of Pennsylvania SIS
per cent of all employees are women.
| The average earnings Of working
women in cities of the United States Is
ss.24.
| Miss Rhea Lyon. . fourteen-year-old
Cleveland school girl. has won over loo
prizes as gardener.
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virginia, and New Jersey-are without
a separate State college for women.
Denver women are working for the
recall of Judge Ben B. Lindsay. VINO
has charge of the juvenile courts In
that city.
children. which was founded by Marie
Montessori. is being taken up all over
the world.
Since the rebels have occupied Durango.
| Mexico, forty women, nearly all OF the
better class. have committed suicide.
| Mrs. Emma Graves has spent the last
forty-nine years Of her life in the re-
demption department Of the Treasury
Department at Washington
|
I, has made a fortune out Of making rail-
! ways, and for several years made e
PROFIT OF over $4,000 year.
Arizona prohibits the employing OF
women in occupations where they mist
remain standing in or about any mine,
quarry, or coal breaker.
New York forbids the employment Of
women in factories, mercantile establish
ments, and mills within four weeks after
she has given birth to child.
| Miss Margaret Wilson. daughter OF
President Wilson. and Miss Mary Garrett
Hay have been appointed members OF the
| New York prison committee by Gov.
| Sulzer.
Miss Anna Z. Logan has been nominat-
ed for assistant superintendent OF the
| Cincinnati Public Schools. position
heretofore held by man.
A scheme is being advocated for the
erection Of a monument at Gettysburg.
| Pa, to the wives Of the veterans who
| lost their lives on the Gettysburg battle
field.
Over 1000 marriage licenses were L.
| sued in Philadelphia during the month OF
| June, and one man returned his becaurs
his prospective wife wanted to boss
things.
Mrs. Henry F. Ashurst, wife Of Senator
Ashurst Of Arizona, before her marriage
held a position in the Weather Bureau,
and was the first observer in the service.
Mrs. Robert Newton, Of Denver, Colo.
has adopted q pig as q pet The little
4 Mi n d0wnY
night beside his mistress. and eats from
a silver spoon.
Miss Alice Grady, secretary to Louis
| Brandeis, and financial secretary OF tie
Massachusetts Saving Insurance League
is said to be the highest salaried woman
IN New England.
Miss Ruth Barry, Of st. Louis, Ii now
a full fledged mechanic In the trade CT
ljewelry, silversmithing, and chasing, hav.
ing completed a three-year course In
Pratt University. N. Y.
pension Of $500 q year to Lady Purcon
Clarke. widow Of Sir Casper Purdon
Clarke, formerly director Of the Metro
politan Museum of New York.
Miss Margaret Sutherland is president
OF the ONO state Te3cners A80OclatlOn,
and when she welded the savel at their
recent meeting 1t was the first time that
q woman had done 80.
The American Medical Association has
elected DR.. Lillian South as vice presi-
dent, and IL 10 the nrst time In its sixty
four years Of history that the association
has elected q woman to the position
Nav York cannere have bean sran,.s
permission by the State Labor Commis-
sion to employ women over eighteen years
Of age for sixty-six hours q week. but
only until August s, when the rush sea
son 10 over.
Mrs. william J. stratton, woman law
yer recently graduated from the New
York Law School with high honors. 10
being congratulated by her friends IN
the successful termination OF her frst
case, that Of . husband deserving his
wife and child.
| One Of the most successful theatrical
managers in England u Miss A T. r
Herniman, who manages the Gaiety
Theater At Manchester. where she has
produced over q hundred plays BY the
worlds greatest writer's
The Great Western Railway Of England
is making the novel experiment Of en,-
ploying women as "railwaymen," q num-
ber Of women being engaged as carriage
cleaners In the London district Women
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