The Washington herald., 1913-08-10
Interesting JottinHs Concerning tb
Doings of the Feminine Sex
the World Over.

1
Maryland has s.s96 more females than
males.
Over 10000 marriages were recorded In
| France last year. ..
| Russia has 5000 women doctors and
16O0o doctors assistants.
i There are lO6 males to every 100 females
in the United States.
| Thir:y-two per cent Of the 7.oO0.O work
ing women are under age.
| In the Munich schools attendance is
-. DRY for girls up to sixteen years.
| At the recent municipal election in Los
Angeles over 5000 women voted.
The proper size for the feminine waist
measure. is decreed to be thirty-four
| inches.
A New York church is about to provide
a brides dressing room in the church.
Mrs. Alice S. BloUnt owns and edits a
weekly newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa.
, Mrs. Edith w. Pierce has the distinc-
| ton of being the first woman street in
spector.
Hereafter New Orleans will have only
single women in the public schools.
Women architects designed the hall in
which the women's show was held at
Amsterdam.
Members of the womens Homestead
" histles as protection against Washers.
Women preachers are becoming more
numerous every day In the United States,
there being now over $3.50 of them.
Mrs. T.. II. Hartman has added an ad-
ditiOnal $lc,gj0 to the $4,000 fund already
established by her for medical research
! The Director of Public Safety in Pitts
hurgh refuses To interfere with women
who wear slit skirts in the Smoky City
IlT Ia Nj in. hA I4aV d..
factories have had their working hours
changed from fifty-seven and one-half
to nifty hours a week.
Females form a larger proportion of the
population in the urban districts than in
rural communities throughout the United
States
Mrs. Z. V. Graves. of Brockton, Mass.
has twelve Pomeran!an dogs. which have
a whole house to themselves, each dog
having a room TO itself.
Mrs. Grace Caukin has been appointed
receiver of the United States land Office
at Sonoma. Cal. at a salary of $500 a
year.
Women of Oshkosh, Wis, have fled a
petition with the Mayor for women police
men to handle Juvenile Court cases, pub
lie dances. bathing beaches, &c.
Nearly 500 women are employed in the
general shop construction and repairs de-
United States.
Mrs. Margaret Rosebaugh, Of Spokane,
Wash, is the first woman TO draw a pen
sion Of So a month in the State because
her husband is in the penitentiary.
French woman has been captured by
Moorish tribesmen, and bargaining for her
release is proceeding on the basis of l5
cents per hair of the captive's head.
The only woman art director in the
NO fC n1ia
official title is Director of the Buffalo
Fine Arts Academy and Albright Art
Gallery.
Believing II to he a highly meritorious
act. the parents of many OF the dancing
girls in the temples in India unite them
IN wedlock to the images worshiped there
Miss Eleanor Wood. of New York City,
has charge OF n large industry depend
ent upon chemical knowledge-the max
ing of sirups and honey and of a specially
prepared milk for invalids.
About go women employed in the manu-
facture of drab serge clothing in the
Royal Army Clothing Department. Pim-
leo, England, recently went on a strike
against the reduction in rates of pay.
As the daughter of a deep sea diver,
Miss Marie De Rock. of Portland, Ore,
is anxious to follow her fathers pro-
fession and to profit by exceptional ad-
vantages in which the hours are short
and the pay high.
Miss Marguerite Ogden, daughter of
Superior Judge Ogden, of Oakland, Cal,
and Miss Annette Abbott Adams, for
merly a "school-marm," are partners in.
law firm that will have for its prac-
tice the exclusive cases OF women clients.
The State of Kansas honors Miss Ethel
Vanderbilt for being the highest type OF
farm woman. She was a graduate at
the last commencement of the Kansas
State Agricultural School, being the first
woman student to complete the course.
By means of strict school attendance
regulations the attendance of domestic
servants of every kind is assured in
Bavaria, and every girl has to attend
continuation school for at least three
hours per week until she has attained
the age of sixteen years.
In two competitions Jeanne Texier, a
young French woman. beat all the male
candidates and won the appointment as
doctor in the hospital and head Of the
clinic in the school of medicine at
Tours. She is the first woman in France
to hold such a position.
Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, municipal
affairs expert, will survey sixteen of the
principal cities and towns Of the State
of Washington to recommend changes in
government for the relief Of conditions.
and to deliver public lectures on munich
pal affairs.
Miss Helen r. Hildreth. of Boston, one
of the foremost instructors in the
woman's educational and industrial work
in the United States, has been chosen
to succeed Miss Cleo Murtland as direc- |
tor of the Worcester girls trade school
Miss Muriland will retire on September l. |
Miss Ximena McGlashan, OF Truckee, |
Cal, who is only eighteen years of age.
didn't want to be school teacher after |
her graduation and took to butterfly
farming. Although ignorant OF collecting
and selling them. she learned quickly, 1
and is now making a comfortable living |
out of butterflies.
Miss Alice Durkin. New York's only |
woman master-builder. employs over 100 |
men, and competes with tho contractors |
of that city for skyscraping contracts. |
For four years Miss Durkin has been |
among the master-builders of !
the city, and in that time she has erected |
buildings to the value Of $2.000.00o.
Miss Evelyn II. Pindar. daughter Of a |
California minister. has adopted a novel |
Plan to raise money to pay for her musi- |
cal education. Being very beautiful girl |
she decided to have her photograph |
taken and several copies were made OF II, |
and going through the Wall Street dis |
trict in New York recently she got as
high as s12 for one photograph.
To keep rugs from rolling up at the |
corners sew 9 heavy iron ring on each
corner on the under side.
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