The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
JottIngs Concerning ths
Doings of the Feminine Sex
the World Over.

| Women are sold at auction In Russia.
Illinois women are studying citizenship.
Buffalo has 2l1,2 ,213 females among its
So, 900 population.
Eighty-two per cent OF all English wom-
en- are wage earners.
Norway has women policemen that are
said TO be very satisfactory.
Fashionable women in England are now
smoking pipes instead of cigarettes.
The average weekly food bill for fam
lily in Canada is estimated at $40.
San Francisco has a women's dishwash-
ers' union among which are 100 collegG
graduates.
Mrs Patrick Vaughn, Of New York,
couGhed up a bullet that has been In her
throat for thirty years.
Since 1861 men and women in Bohemia
have nominslly had absolute equality OF
political rights.
| In Cleveland a school-teacher has TO
serve foruteen years before she can draw
$1,000 year salary.
\ curfew law for girls sixteen years old
and under goes into effect in Sag Harbor,
Me, on September 1.
Mrs. Jean X Foulke has been appointed
one of the ten State instructors in agrI-
culture in Pennsylvania.
| Frau Stritt. one of Germany's famous
actresses, has allied herself with femin-
lists movement
Hindu girls from kindergarten to col
! lege are following the same course of
study as their American sisters.
Four thousand St Paul women have
petitioned the makers of gowns TO abol-
ish the tube skirt with its sIits.
Miss Helen F. Eustis, of New York, a
graduate of Wellesley College, has gone
TO Brazil to do mission work.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Bruen, aged ninety-one
years, has taught in Sunday-sChool in
Belvidere, y. j.. for seyenty-elght years,
and is still at 1t.
Miss Mildred Armour, a society belle OF
Evanston, Ill, has forsaken social Joys
to teach kindergarten class.
Shattering all traditions, the young
King of Siam will have only one wife, in
stead Of 600, which his father had.
Mrs. Thomas Berger, of BernviIle, Pa,
reaped seventy-one acres OF grain thus
season with a binder, driving three horses
abreast.
OF all the females in England and Wales
aged ten years and upward. 3l6 per 1,OGO
are occupied and ss4 per l.OoO are unoc-
cupied.
The wages in the better sort of cotton
factories in Japan run from cents a day
for the youngest children to 3 cents day
for good women workers.
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett says that
girls that are reared in dire poverty are
100 per cent more likely to go wild than
those who have had better opportunities.
For the first time women have been
given a place as co-adjutors in the crea-
ton of an international enterprise-the
Fanama-Pacific International Exposition
at San Francisco in 1915.
Declaring that in these days a woman
has as much right TO be n hack driver as
she has 10 be a stenographer, Mrs. L. J.
Moses appeared at the Mount Vernon, \.
Y, City Hall and demanded license to
become one.
DR.. Charles W. Eliot. president emeritus
OF Harvard. is against the employment OF
married women teachers in public schools.
and, except in some instances. against
more than five years.
Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson has
given her beautiful house on Madison
Avenue in New York TO the New York
Williams Alumni for clubhouse. A few
years ago she gave to Williams chapel,
at cost of $4,000, in memory OF her
husband.
Mrs. Clementine B. Wentworth, OF Con-
cord, n. H., a stockholder in the Boston
and Maine Railroad. has brought suit to
annul the contract between the railroad
and the American Express Company,
claiming that the railroad loses $4,000 a
year on express business.
Miss Elizabeth Goucher, youngest
daughter'of DR.. John F. GOucher, presi-
dent emeritus of Goucher College and
friend of Miss Jessie Wilson, is TO enter
the mission field in China under the direc-
ton of the Women's Foreign Mission So
ciety.
Refusing to take dare a society
young woman at Atlantic City few
nights ago dived in evening attire from
tpe second deck Of the steel pier to win
a wager. Two young men who saw her
take the SO-foot plunge, leaped to the
rescue.
Parisians are conjecturing how many
American women will follow the daring
innovation Mile. Polaire intends making
during her Forthcoming trip to 'tht United
States. She will appear on the American
stage with dainty golden ring hanging
from the tip Of her nose.
Two New York women, Mrs. Margaret
r. French and Miss Zoe L. Banks, have
just invested heavily in real estate in that
city. Mrs. French acquired new twelve
story apartment house for $950,ooo, which
will bring her in a rental of $4,000 a year,
and Miss Banks purchased a 100000
property as an investment -
DR.. Mary Ellis Patrick, of Boston. presi-
dent of the American College for Girls in
Constantinople, who is now in this coun-
try, says that she finds Turkish girls apt
pupils and very anxiats to learn. Today
there are several thousand Mohammedan
girls and women attending the university.
One OF the girls who left the school less
than a year ago is now chief editorial
writer on the Tannin, the leading Young
Turkish publication. .... -
Mrs. Josephine Preston, State superin-
tendent of the schools OF Washington, has
lived in that State for twenty years and
has been city school-teacher. assistant
county superintendent and county super
intendent, having been appointed State
superintendent last January. Her cam
paign was watched with interest in all
parts of the country. Her hobby is the
idea of making all the one-room buildings
school building.
Miss Nettie Truax and Mrs. Anna B.
Miller are members of the Wyoming Leg
islature, and both have used their EFFORTS
to aid the cause of education in the State.
Miss Truax has been a teacher for many |
years in Minnesota and Wyoming for
four years. All the important school bills
introduced were passed at the last meet !
ing of the Legislature with her as chair
man of the Education Committee.