The Washington herald., 1913-12-28
THE ACTIVITIES OF
INTERESTING WOMEN
Interesting Jottings Concerning the
DOinss Of the Feminine SEX
the World Over.
BY wINIT'REp SHORT.

DolnSS OF tne Temtukne Oek
the World Over.
by wINIE'REp SHORT.
Bayside. Long Island, has woman's
bowling club.
DR.. Mary Walker says the suffragists
are grafters.
Equal suffrage prevails in Mexico to a
Certain extent
The German birth rate showed de-
crease of 1,1OO last year.
During September there were 1904
births in Pennsylvania
The Hebrew Technical School, of New
York, graduates $50 girls yearly.
Women of Colorado Springs have start
ed a crusade against unsightly billboards
In England poor mothers get 30 shil-
lngs at the birth of a child.
Miss Rose MaIey is State superintend-
ent Of public instruction in Wyoming.
In 1910 there were 2I5 widows to every
100 widowers in the United States.
DR.. Mary Walker, who has always
worn trousers, is now appearing in vau-
deviIle.
Since women began to vote in New
Zealand, divorce has decreased a per
cent.
Princess EuIalie. aunt of King Alfonso.
Of Spain, has beauty shop in Paris.
= OF the Isl women graduates from
IfNFir
wahwiakum County. the smallest in
the State of Washington. has a woman
clerk.
Domestic servants are employed in
more than 10000 homes in England and
Wales.
Over 10000 women are stockholders in
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad.
Several women are seen daily on the
New York speedway driving fast trotting
horses.
Corset manufacturers are complaining
that the tango is running their business.
PoIicewomen in Chicago cannot weigh
less than lis pounds nor more than $50
pounds
London women are now wearing trou-
sers and little smoking jackets instead
of tea gowns
Miss Katherine Puncheon has been
elected principal of the Girls High School
in Philadelphia
Miss Estelle Mason is making a 32,OOO-
mile journey around the world with
twelve Eskimo dogs.
In New Zealand the servant maids
union demands the establishment of a
siXty-eight-hour week.
Shopgirls in London have a country
house where they rest at intervals from
their labors-
The average height of women has in
creased from one to two inches during
the last generation.
The mother voice in politics has re-
duced the active working day of the
child fifty-four minutes.
Cleveland women have begun a cam
paign against the present day modes of
wearing apparel.
Nine. Montessori plans to build an i'm
mense laboratory in Rome to be the CEN
ter Of her system.
A police canvass in Kansas City shows
that 14S women disappeared from that
city in six months.
Miss Leona Dalrymple, Of Passaic, has
just received $4,000 for writing prize
story.
While she is only nineteen years of age,
Miss Sybn Vane is considered the best
prima donna in England.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of former
President Taft, has gone back to Bryn
Mawr College to take a special course.
The first flag to ny through the PAN.
anna Canal will be that Of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution.
Premier Mcbride, OF British Columbia,
has refused the request OF the suffra-
gists that they be given the franchise.
Mrs. Clara Larson has been elected
mayor of Troutville, Greg, by i've votes
over the man who opposed her.
In the United States there are three
times as many native-born women as all
the foreign-born men and women put to-
gether. ..
Women taxpayers of Montana have
had the right to vote on questions SUBJ
mitted to taxpayers since 1881.
Lady BeaHchamp, as the wife Of the.
hrst commissioner of works in England.
spends $4,000 annually in entertaining.
Mrs. Charles Gale, OF Eureka, Cal, has
oeen appointed on the board of trustees
of the new State Normal School
Ruth Bancroft Law, the woman avia-
tor, recently gave the people Of Hsckeri-
sack. N. J., thrill when she made sew
eral flights over the town.
Berlin has an Institution which rents
so-called gentlemen to persuade married