The Washington herald., 1913-05-11

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Interesting lettings CONCERNING the
Dofnks OF the Feminine Sex
the World Over.
There are over $4,000 women dressmak-
ers in England.
or the 100, 900 teachers in Germany, only
5000 are women.
Women in Cleveland are being asked
| to join an anti-Mormon crusade.
Girl coremakers in the Detroit foun-
dries earn from $50 to 81 day.
Geraldine Farrar. the opera singer,
earned $500 during the past season.
Mayor Rushlight, Of Portland, Greg,
has named a woman as his private secre-
tary.
In the United States there are 2,193
women journalists and 1885 women cler-
gymen.
All but one of the women who ran
for Office at the recent election in Colo
RADIO were elected.
During the past year there were 2s3, 1so
marriages, STRICT births, and 1856 deaths
in England.
Seventy-four women in Kansas are
holding public Office to which the votes
of men elected them.
The highest average salary paid wom-
en- teachers is in California, where they
receive $9ls year.
In England there are more women
workers in proportion to population than
in any other country in the world
OF a total population of over a million
and half in Philadelphia, there are ovei
$50 900 women employed.
Women spend 80 per cent, of $40. 900, 600,
O0G annually in the United States for
food, clothing, and shelter.
In France boards of education are not
permitted to refuse leave to absence
to teachers who want to bear children.
It is figured that the average woman
spends 242 days gazing into the mirror
between the ages of sixteen and seventy.
The city commissioners Of Topeka, Kan
sas, will soon appoint two women as
members of the police force in that city.
Legal protection is thrown around the
working woman who bears child In
Europe.
The number of women and girls en-
gagged in prostitution in this country at
the present time is estimated at less than
COO, 900.
Mrs. H. s. Keeran has been appointed
Justice of the peace at Princeton, Cal,
to fill out the unexpired term of her de-
ceased husband.
Senator Helen King Robinson, OF Colo
RADIO, will make a suffrage campaign tour
through New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and Maryland.
COO, 900 annually for cosmetics, using about
100000 pounds of powder, rouge, cold
cream, &C., a month.
Despite the fact she is past eighty
six years of age. Mrs. Mary Scroggs, of
Los Angeles, Cal, has just completed
a trip around the world.
Miss Gertrude Jordan. who was re-
Gently elected treasurer OF Cherry
County, Nebr., will have absolute charge
of all the county's money.
Miss Zelie Emerson, of Jackson, Mich,
gave up an income of $4,000 year when
she went to England to champion the
cause of the suffragettes.
Secretary of the Interior Lane has ap-
pointed Mrs. Annie G. Rogers as receiver
of the land office at Leadville. Colo, at
a salary of $1,000 a year.
Miss Dorothy Roberts. of Philadelphia,
is attending a business college in order
to fit herself for the management Of
her future husbands business.
Radcliffe College has just appointed a
force Of eight women police, whose duty
will be to suppress the talkative and gig
Cling students at lectures.
Marguerite Mylva, the Belgian-Ameri-
can prima donna, has been decorated
with the Gold Medal Of Spirit by the
Grand Duke Of Mechlenburg-Schwerin
Between 600 and 700 women will be
deprived Of employment If the bill pro-
hibiting girls from working as coremak-
ers in the foundries Of Michigan become
a law.
After testifying that she had supported
her husband for thirteen years, Mrs
Frances G. Wilmot, of Bridgeton. Conn,
the mother of eighteen children, was
granted a divorce.
Though women have been eligible to