The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
NEWS OF WOMEN
IN EAST AND WEST

| \ course in manners for high school
girls-a remedy which, by the way, was
suggested by a reader of ttWoman's Plat
form for the hoydenish manners of the
present generation Of girls--is the latest
proposition suggested by2Chicagos wom-
ali school superintendent Mrs. Ella F1agg
Young, notes an English periodical Mrs.
Young in her round of the high schools
noticed that, although the students were
bright. fine girls, they lacked the es-
sential graees of womanhood-dignity and
repose. The modern American girl shows
a tendency to develop into a highly
strung nervous woman. clever but not
cultured Mrs. Young therefore sug-
gests that on the staff of the high schools
shall be placed what there Is in prac-
| tically all colleges-a dean of women,
whose duty it would be- by example only,
TO educate the girls in grace and refine
ment
Some interesting, official statistics have
just been published in France by the
board of trade showing the relative size
of families in connection with the va
rious professions and industries. AS is
| the case in every other country, the poor
| have the most numerous families. It is
among the fishing population and sea-
faring folk. however, that France reaches
1 faer highest average-five children TO a
| family. The laboring class follow with an
| average of FOUR the small shopkeeping
class with an average of 3.6 As the in
come rises so the size of the family de-
| creases, and it IS among the high salaried
| state and municipal officials, middle
class manufacturers and professional
men that the one child family prevails.
IN interesting exception to this rule, how
ever, is the rich. Independent class, who
strike an average of three children TO a
family.
The fate of the AusAian assemblies bill
which recently passed the lower house
by a large majority, and under which
women over 81 years OF age are to be adj
mitted to political organizations is await
ed with great eagerness by The Austrian
| Woman Suffrage association, as, should
the bill pass the upper house. it would
be enabled TO attend the Budapest con-
| gress not as a committee, but as q duly
| constituted association Plans are al
| ready being matured by the Austrian
women for a large mass meeting to be
held in Vienna few days before the con-
yention, at which leaders of the interna-
tional suffrage movement will be asked
| to, speak while special festivities and a
| tour round the beautiful city will also
he arranged in their honor.
Because the city council of Denver,
/ Colo. proposes to introduce a measure
whereby unattended women shall not be
| served with liquor in cafes the Colorado
Equal Suffrage league has entered a vig-
orous protect against this action. The
| league, in voicing its Indignation at the
| proposal, states that women have as much
| right to drink alone as men, and that in
| common Justice men should be denied the
right to drink liquor in cafes unless &C
companied by a woman. In thus Sflam-
| pioning the right of women TO lonely
drinking the league has laid itself open
to severe criticism and misrepresentation,
SIS in its anxiety to abolish any sex dis
elimination 1t advocates a course of action
which, under ordinary circumstances, it
would condemn.
Despite the fact that Norwegian women
| have for many years enjoyed the same
educational advantages in schools and the
university as men the scholastic author-
| ties of that country appear to have al
ways Disseminated against them in the
matter of salaries and appointment to