The Washington herald., 1913-11-23

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Iof trade unions.
In Australia the custom Of early mar
riage is favored.
Two women will be appointed to the
Calgary police force.
Mrs. Clifford B. Harmon has the finest
'cattery'' in the world.
Mrs. Sarah Todd. aged 1os. is a duly
registered voter at Eugene. oreg.
College girls have put a ban upon
tango and turkey trot dances
Over 1900 women voted at the recent
school election in Toledo, Ohio.
Active campaigns will be waged for
women's political rights in six States next
year.
Havana now has a newspaper devoted
to the interests of the equal rights wom-
en- on the island.
School teachers in Wisconsin will here
after receive no less than $40 a month
A Paris woman. Mime. Gossert, has Just
given birth TO her twenty-ffth child.
In England women smoke in restau-
rants, railway carriages, and other pub
lie places. ......
Nine. PaderewskI, wife Of the renowned
pianist. raises poultry on her farm as a
pastime.
| Twenty-three girls were born in twenty
three consecutive days recently in a Den
Yer maternity hospital
Miss Margaret Ashton is one Of the
most efficient members Of the Manchester,
England, City Councils.
In England women can be elected as
City Councillors Aldermen. Mayors of
cities and to the Board Of Guardians
BY making a catch OF los pounds Mrs.
lPlante won the championship trophy at
the Herne Bay angling festival
The female rowing crew at wellesly
College outclass the men of other coll
leges, according to Coach Rice, OF Column
bia College.
The Young womens Christian Asso-
citation, of Los Angeles, Cal, has a course
where women are taught TO be efficient
saleswomen.
The grand jury recently selected in
San Mateo County, California, will be
controlled by women having eleven OF
their sex to eight men-
Mrs. Katherine r. Williams has been
elected president of the State Confer
ence and Charities and Corrections in
Wisconsin.
Mrs. Sadie Graham, who IL Is claim
ed is 102 years of age, was recently ar
rested for flirting on the streets Of
Toledo, Ohio.
Moslem women in Cairo who have
discarded the traditional well" may
be emancipated IL the movement which
is now on foot proves successful.
The Countess of warwick is to be-
come a journalist and has taken the
position of directing the woman's page
of London daily newspaper.
| Farmers wives in America constitute
the largest class of economically use
| full women, for they produce nine
tenths of the poultry products of the
nation.
English women possess greater po-
litical power than that possessed in
any part of the United States by the
feminine sex. except in the few suffrage
States.
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer and Miss vir-
ginia Young. New York society women.
will go TO the Philippine Islands with
the object of trying to civilize the
natives there.
Mrs. Eleanor p. Thomas. of Phil
adelphia, who manages ranch in
Orange County, has located water on
her place with the aid of divining
rod which SO many people soon at
Miss e. r. Morgan. who was elected
Mayor of Brecon. wales. last year, has
proved to be invaluable to the city be-
cause of her economic municipal work
in the city.
The proposed amendment to the
Massachusetts Constitution making
women eligible to appointment as no.
taries public was defeated at the re-
cent election by majority Of over
5000.
Miss Ellen Gleditsch. who is a ra-
| dium expert, Is the first woman desig-
mated by the Norwegian government
10 one OF the felloWsnips Tor Amerl-
can study given by the American-Scan-
dinavian Foundation.
Miss Anna Olsen, an Ellis Island nurse,
wins recently plunged into the bay at
night and saved an immigrant from
drowning, has been rewarded by the gov
ernment with q substantial increase in
salary.
Seventeen-year-old Susan A. Everetts,
Of Hubbard, Ohio. is the second best
apple grower In the state OF Ohio. She
has worked with her father in the
orchard for several years. She not only
attends high school, but spends much OF
her time pruning and spraying the trees.
Mrs. Anderson II. Drew. who Is now
in this country in the interest OF suffrage.
claims that since the women have been
granted the right TO vote in New Zealand
the death rate among children has de-
creased to such an extent that II now
has the smallest death rate Of any
country In the world.