The Washington herald., 1913-12-07

| the World Over.
Germany is having more divorces than
marriages.
Miss Agnes Pitchtord has been elected
treasurer of Roseburg, Greg.
! Women have the right of suffrage in
school affairs in thirty-one States.
Milan, Italy, has 1.2s5 school teachers,
the majority Of which are women.
Mrs. Curie, the discoverer of radium.
still continues her laboratory work.
Dominoes is again being taken up as
a pastime by English society women.
Over 5000 women are employed in the
department of public works in Germany.
Miss Ellen Hume has been a house
keeper in a Philadelphia home for sixty
three years.
In the Colorado State Penitentiary
there are only 81 women as compared
to 500 men.
No woman under forty years of age is
| allowed to drive her own motor car in
Paris.
Mime. Pallier recently made a flight
of ia miles in an aeroplane, which is a
new record for women.
| Miss Annie ]. Cannon the most dis
| tinguished astronomer in the world, is
cataloging $4,000 new stars.
Paris women are wearing half wells,
/ l. Id ruia 20 he
Turkish habit.
A young woman stenographer in a
Yakima. Wash, law office is attempting
to corner the market in heifer calves.
| Mrs Cora f Raynor, who was con-
victed as a loan shark in New York.
sixty days in Jail
Kansas has 100 women in the active
management of farms and there Is not
one who has not made a success OF 1t.
| Women are claimed to be the best
money getters when II comes to col
lecting funds for any charitable organl
zation.
| Women school teachers in Switzerland
hold their positions for life and are pro-
vided with a house. garden land and
wood for fuel.
The birth rate in Munich is rapidly
decreasing and during last year only 21-9
births were registered per 1000 inhabi-
! tants.
| The Housewives League of the United
| States. has called upon its members TO
boycott eggs until the prices come down
Mrs. T. s. Presbury manages a nine
story hotel in Kansas City, and Is the
only woman in Kansas conducting this
| line of business.
Levi L. Fritch, OF Mortztown, Pa,
has six daughters who are all school
teachers. They graduated from the same
normal school.
Olga Nethersole. the well-known ac-
tress, recently received verdict against
her former managers for $1,000 for
| breach OF contract.
| Many women in Paris have permits to
wear mems clothes because they claim
that by doing SO they can double their
earning capacity.
Nine. Poincare wife of the President
OF France, Is learning how to dance the
tango so that IT will be danced at all the
official balls in Paris.
Mrs. ]. p. Williams, the only woman
president of a railroad in the South. has
been reelected president of the Georgia,
Florida and Alabama Railroad.
| An ordinance has been introduced In
the Philadelphia city councils. which. If
passed, will prohibit girls from acting
as ushers in the theatres in that city.
1t is said that Queen Mary is the real
King of England, as she rules her nus
band in such a manner that he mas De-
come known as the most henpecked man
| in England.
Determined to bring down the price Of
coal, several women of Flushing, L l.,
purchasd a bargeload of coal and sold 1t
| through the streets of the town.
The French Chamber OF Deputies have
received a petition signed by Z2Vi2
| women asking for the elimination OF
places where alcoholic drinks are sold.
Mrs. John Purroy Mitchell, wife Of the
mayor-elect Of New York City. Is one OF
| the best dressed women in that city, ana
is an earnest advocate of woman suf-
| frage.
Over 15OO women weavers In the Pater-
son, N. J., mills have decided to ask Tor
shorter working hours, and II they DO
not receive what they want they viii go
on strike.
So that she will be able to learn the
methods Of just how the schools are run,
Mrs. Lola Morgan. recently elected a
school director in Norwood, Ohio, Will
attend the school every day with her
children.
The school children OF Lane County.
Greg, will be taught road building, and
Miss Goldie van Biber, who will direct
the work, will have charge Of 100 square
miles of country through which roads
will be built.
Women have evidently driven their
male competitors from the field of
stenography, as the government Is hav-
ing great difficulty in securing male
stenographers for the work to be done In
the service.
The lower house of the Bavarian Diet
has adopted the bill introducing female
suffrage in the elections for the COM
mercial and Industrial courts and the gov
ernmental chambeis Of commerce and
trade organisations,