The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-25

Interesting Jottings Concerning the
Doinss of the Feminine SEX
the World over.
During the past year about 10 per
cent of all marriages were terminated
by divorce.
In the Southern cotton mills 81 per
cent of the women employed are under
twenty-one years OF age.
in the United States los males to every
! 100 females.
wellesley College has 1.i24 women en-
rolled as students.
Nearly a million divorces have been
granted in the past twenty years.
Students In the Los Angeles, Cal,
schools are prohibited from wearing
slit skirts
Baroness Vaughan. who was the
morganatic wife of King Leopold of Bel
GUM, has obtained a divorce from EN-
manuel Durieux. TO whom she was mar
ried in 1910.
Nearly 100 women are attending regu-
lar college classes at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia Is soon TO have women as
STRENGTHENING inspectors.
During the last three months the total
damage done to property in England
by the militant suffragettes. has ex-
ceeded 100000. II is estimated the suf-
frage campaign is now costing England
81. Oo0ooO year.
Miss Ruth Bancroft Law. the nervy
aviatrice, has declared her intention Of
attempting a flight across the Atlantic
Ocean. for a prize OF $4,000 offered by
Lord Northcliffe. Of England.
Mo- woman who works in Utah re-
ceives less than 80 cents per day. Even
one learning new work must be paid
80 cents daily. and after six months
apprenticeship this must be raised to
sl.25 daily.
Five young women will receive de-
grees in law at the coming commence
ment of the Boston University.
wyoming. Idaho, Washington, and
Colorado have selected women as State
school superintendents.
In Japan the women have enough to
do serving their husbands and families,
without bothering with the suffrage
movement.
A report OF the United States Bureau
of Education says that the public school
teachers in the United States do not re-
ceive enough salary to save enough
money to carry adequate life insurance
or to proceed with further professional
training.
Pittsburg has a woman's club OF thirty
members, all OF which are blind.
The School Commission of Trenton.
n. J., has increased the salaries of
teachers in that city, and hereafter the
minimum salary will be $500. an increase
OF $50 over the old rate.
Nearly $4,000 women are employed in
the factories of Russia.
Hamilton. Canada. has a union COM
posed of women bookkeepers.
Inc notes ana RESTAURANTS Oh S~ltZeT-
land employ $3.50 female workers.
A number of women acted as judges
and clerks at the recent election held
at Portland, Greg.
In Canada, single women and widows
have the municipal vote.
A bill before the New York Legisla-
when they reach the age of sixty-hve
is being vigorously protested against by
the teachers Of Yonkers.
Several well-known leaders of society
in Paris have appeared in public lately,
wearing sandals fastened around the
ankles with ribbons, like the buskins of
the ancient Greeks.
Frau Won Bokin und Halback. who was
Bertha Krupp before her marriage. and
now the owner of the great Krupp Gun
Works at Essen, Germany. is one of the
richest women in the world. She is
only twenty-six years of age. and her
estimated wealth is sl0o.oOo,ooo.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shannon has charge of
a gang of laborers on the Erie Rail-
road.
The 1900 women working for wages
in Canada receive an average of ,S261
a year each, or about exactly s. per
week.
Miss Wakana Utagawa, young JAP
anese artist, and a descendent of Togo
kuni. Japan's most celebrated painter,
is now in this country, after having visit
ed every country in Europe. Miss
Utagawa paints women and children.
birds and flowers, and Is paying her way
by her art.
An automobile race of twenty miles
at belmont. Pa, between Mrs. George
Wallace, aged ninety-three, and Mrs.
Leordon, aged twenty-five, resulted in
victory for Mrs. Wallace. who, despite
her age, never slackened speed and took
the corners at full speed.
Mrs. Helen D., Longstreet. who was
denied reappoinment as postmistress at
Gainesville, Ca. has been offered a posi-
ton In the office of Col Albert E. Boone.
of Clarksburg, W. Va, at salary of
$500 a year Mrs. Longstreet is the
widow of the famous Confederate gen.
eral of that name. and Boone is a for
mer Union soldier.
In Montana one man occupies the posi-
ton Of county school superintendent. as