Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-10-23
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interesting Jottinas Concerning tn
Ooinas of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.

Interesting Jottinos Concerning th
Doinas of the Feminine Sex the
\ World Over.
Italy has over 100000 women en-.
gagged in industry.
AT the age of 20 there are more 70.
males than males.
Between the ages of Is and 100 there
are more women than men.
Women garment workers claim .
total membership of over 10000.
AL German states now appoin wo.
men factory and other inspectors.
Smoking suits are~ the latest fad
among the fashionable women Of Lon.
don.
Women make the best military spies
but love sometimes upsets their plans
over 80 per cent of the women IL
Germany are working for living.
Turkey will soon open schools t.
teach their women useful trades ans
arts
The strike of the ladies tailore II
New York has been won by the strik.
ers.
The Duchess of Aosta will spent
elx months hunting in the Jungles OF
Africa
men Independent owners and heads OF
establishments.
Russia has eight schools for mid.
wives and six schools ,or surgeons
assistants of both sexes.
over 100000 adult women worker.
are getting an average wage of less
than 50 per week.
Frenchschool teachers are striving to
have their pay made equal to that paid
TO the men teachers.
Nine. Loudon, wife OF Jonheer J.
Loudon. minister of foreign affairs Of
doliand, is an American woman.
Ada Boshcll recently celebrated the
hftieth anniversary of her first APP
pearance onsthe stage.
Counting hooks for spoony nurses
Is the latest added Improvement to
the new hospital in Cincinnati
There are six women to one man
In the teaching profession in Michi-
gan, and the average wage is $44 q
month.
While she was president of the Gen.
eral Federation OF Women's clubs. Mrs,
Philip N. Moore Travelled over $4,000
miles.
In most European countries the
maximum working time for women
workers is legally fixed at 10 hours q
day.
Plans are under way to organize
the 5000 girls woh are not members
OF the New York City Dressmakers'
union.
Mrs George w. Goethals, wife of
Colonel Cocktails, expects to be the
first woman to sail through the Pam
anna canal.
For the year ending June 80, 1919
the total number of female imml.
Crr,s AvNtt vr,I,.,
was 3S9,748.
In the United States there are sew
eral hundred musical clubs composed
of women with membership of near
ly 100000.
Louisville women are entitled ia
vote ON the $1,000.O00 school bond
proposition to be submitted at the
coming special election
Ideal working conditions for the
working people of Pennsylvania has
been brought about through the ef.
forts of women inspectors.
Miss Elizabeth McElroy, recently
appointed as policewoman in Roches-
ter, ~ y. will wear blue uniform.
small toque and a police shield.
Princess Ina Salmon. royal Tahi,
tan maiden. has entered the public
schools of Minneapolis. intending lateI
to enter the state university.
School teachers in Italy are going to
enter politics in the hopes OF lettering
their position as to the pay accorded
them in the cities and towns.
Girls at Vassar college will here,
after be deprived of butter at the din,
ner table and must sleep on hair mat.
tresses or curl up on a rug.
Young women Of good education car
enter the. government service in Eng.
land with unequaled salary prospects
freedom from worry and abundan
leisure.
In every 1000 marriages solemnlzel
in Great Britain 81 are between frs
cousins. Among the nobility the rat
Is much higher. amounting to as IL
1000.
Mrs. w. H. Fox, of Catawissa, Pa,
claims to be the champion woman sho
of columbia county, breaking 48 out
pigeons
The woman of Kansas have the full
right to suffrage. and it is general,
expected that there will be eight or
women members of the legislature
next session.
The first woman to be elected to a
office in Switzerland is Miss dig
LEM who has been appointed by tn
city council of Zurich as a. member
the city board of guardians.
The girls at the state college
Puyallup, Wash, have helped solve tn
high cost of living problem by learnin
to prepare tasteful lunches at cos
of to S cents each.
For the first time in It's history tn
University of Pennsylvania has dor
mitory for women. and it is crowded t
its capacity and has so co-eds on tn
waiting list.
Just because she had been advanced
$50 10 pay her passage to this country
Marie Giremungas. of tsreenville, Pa
h.r. 1,N,
she loved another.
over 100 women have qualified as
lawyers in Russia but are unable to
practice because the minister OF JUS
tice refuses to allow them to be adj
mitted as members OF the bar.
For the first time in the history Of
city politics in Bellingham. Wash,
women are preparing to take part. and
Ella Higginson, the authoress, is men,
toned as candidate for mayor.
Three thousand Kansas women.
members of social study clubs in more
than 100 towns of the state. ave going
to devote the entire study year this
and sanitation.
Mrs. Charles Henry Hart. wife OF
the historian, caused quite sensa-
ton III Philadelphia recently by APP
pearipg on Chestnut street with a
jaunty walking stick-the first carried
by woman in the Quaker City. e
A tablet in the hall of n new lodging
house for women in London refers to
the fact that the building Isl erected
in honor of Mary Victoria. wife ,oi
Lord Cursor. who lwas Mary Letter, OF
Chicago. before her marriage
The will OF Miss Harriet 'Cruft. Of
Boston. sets aside $4,000. the income
of which is to be given to women OF
American birth and Protestant religion
| of good character, over so years of age
| and who are in great need
ovase 4 ahor L osR.