Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-10-03

World Over.
The Grand Duchess of Russia is a
nun.
Vassar College now has a maids
clubhouse.
Australia has 1870 women who
belong 10 trade unions.
Minneapolis will have a woman's
clubhouse in the near future.
At the state fair held in Milwau-
kee o women acted as deputy
sheriffs.
Women workers in the tobacco fac
tories of Toledo, Ohio, have formed a
union.
In Russia the bridegroom-elect is
expected to send his fiance a present
every day.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell, the magazine
writer, is n OF the latest converts
to aviation.
A campaign is being waged among
h Italian girls in New York City in
b interests of unionism.
1t is claimed that 1000, 900 women
have protested against the fortifca-
ton Of the Panama Canal.
The New York Woman Suffrage
party is within 10000 of it's desired
100000 membership.
Twelve women students are O
members Of Lady Woiseley's school
Of horticulture at Glynde, England.
A bill was recently introduced in
the Russian duma for the appoint
ment of women as factory inspectors.
Forty-nine per cent. of the millinery
workers in France, who are all wom-'
en-, do not earn more than 20 cents a
day.
In the factories of New York State
women are barred from working be-
tween the hours of 10 p. m. and 6
q. IN.
The Woman's Medical College of
Philadelphia is conducting a cam
paign to raise the endowment fund to
$500, 900.
Women are now being officially
recognized by the Boys Scouts and
may hold the position of scoutmaster
in England.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, Of New
York, has made quite a study of the
New Jersey mosquito and says hat
there are 40 varieties of them in that
state.
Miss Delphine Force, a st. Louis
society girl and daughter of wealthy
parents. is now a millinery appren-
tice at So q week and says she likes
it.
The profession of prompter is more
suited to women than to men, as their
voices carry better across the stage
and are less audible in the auditor
ium.
So as to bring them more into line
with present day requirements the
British house of lords is considering
q raise in pay for the housemaids.
Narrow skirts worn by woman has
caused the mill operators throughout
the country to lose much time in
work as there is not nearly SO much
cloth needed now.
A real estate firm in New York,
conducted by Mathilda %Francolini,
known as 'the real estate queen"
has failed with liabilities Of nearly
100000.
Miss Anna Laws, Of Cincinnati.
because of her interest in the educa-
ton of the young child, has been
named on the Citizens ticket Of that
city for member of the school board.
Mrs. Caroline B. Crane, the woman
who has cleaned up cities from Kala-
mazoo to Florida, is being firmly es-
tablished in her position as SANITARY
surveyor" of American municipalities.
Greek women of the District of
Epirus, which Italy is now seeking to
have transferred from the rule of
Albania, are among the most pictur-
esQue peasants to be found in Europe
at the present time.
Woman cab drivers are fast disap-
pearing from the streets of Paris.
Six years ago they numbered fully
100, but now they are reduced to
six or seven, and of these all but m
will o o disappear.
Mrs. Fannie Patterson, president
Of the Orphans Home Association, of
Pike county. Indiana, has announced
her candidacy for clerk Of city council,
and IL elected she will be the first
woman in Indiana to hold an elective
Office.
Miss Emiline r. Pass has been APP
pointed to the position of tracer in the
Philadelphia department Of City Tran
sit at q salary OF 5000 q year. She
was first from a list of 18 applicants
who took examinations.
One of the highest paid and highest
ranking women in the government
civil service is Miss Helen L. Summer.
special agent Of the Children's bureau.
who has just been appointed chief
statistician, Of that bureau.
Mrs. Ellen d. Grangerow, . wealthy
UmAtilla Indian, recently obtained q
divorce In Oregon City, Ore. from her
ninth husband and voluntarily settled
upon him a. 'salimony" the SUM Of
$1,000.
At Leige, England. there Is :
sschoolgirl". who is 20 years OF age.