Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-10-17
Interesting Jettines Concerning the
ooinss Of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.

WofJo over
Female BARRIERS are in demand in
London.
New York has q state commission
on widows pensions.
Archery is becoming more and more
popular among women.
Four women have been elected to
the Chinese parliament.
A law to enable Women to propose
marriage is urged In Sweden.
Women school teachers In Russia
receive h same pay as the men.
English women are wearing their
hair %unconfined as the latest fad.
There are nearly $4,000 women
laundry workers in the United States.
The annual average wage of wom-
en- school teachers throughout the
country is $4S5.
h women Of Spain than among those
In London.
Women ticket sellers are gradually
replacing the men in the New York
At the recent election in Finland
70 women were elected to the parlia-
ment.
OF all the people in Europe the
h Irish the most.
Women are now accepted on the
same terms as men by several OF the
big insurance companies.
DR.. Mary Walker, who always
wears mems clothes. has a special
permit from congress to do so.
A French woman has patented a
corset that can be loosencd by NOV
Ing q single lever on the steels.
There are 1900: 900 unmarried peo-
yer 10000 are women.
In New York n vicinity 10000
women are vitality assisting In max
Ing living cheaper by practical co-op-
Grafton.
Russia in Its treatment Of women
Is far behind man. other nations,
only n woman having been admitted
to the bar thus far.
Miss ID. B. Lyons. .postmistress at
Dover. Ohio. wants to quit her job.
but cannot do 30 because no one can
be found to take her place.
Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams has
densest forests and most ~treacherous
trails In South America.
Miss Eva Miner, treasurer Of Mar
shall county, Oklahoma, Is probably
the only oma in the United States
elected to collect taxes.
Turkish women who appear In
public in >clothes which bear the
slightest trace Of European work
manship are subjected to harsh treat
ment.
IN London women are engaged as
cabbage choppers. rag rippers. pickle
ers and public health visitors.
Mrs. Russell Sage celebrated her
s5th birthday recently by sending
checks for $4,000 to institutions in
Syracuse. her girlhood home.
For the first time in the history Of
the Mercer county. New York. jail no
women prisoners are confined there
and the female wing has been closed.
The national typewriting cham
piOnshtp this year was won by Miss
Bessie Friedman. OF New York. who
averaged. 116 words per minute for 80
minutes.
Mrs. Maudeline Force Astor. widow
Of John Jacob Aston. has installed a
$4,000 beauty parlor'' in her palatial
Fifth avenue home in New York city.
No girl under Is who does not have
q school certificate showing that she
q passed the seventh grade can be
Ohio. :
Mrs. Annie K. Dent, who owns and
manages a large plantation in Yazoo
county. Mississippi, had the honor Of
sending the first bale Of cotton to the
Yazoo City market.
"A bronze tablet will be erected In
Pittsburgh in memory Of the heroic
women workers who lost their lives In
the explosion at the Pittsburgh arse
nal in 1862.
Queen wilhelmina, who 10 i'm
mensely wealthy in her own right, has
settled on her husband 6.0o0,O 600, the
interest On It being about $4,000 q
year, which will be strictly his own.
Believing that women are moro eff
fcient than men the General Chemical
company. Of New York. has started
several women chemists at work In
their laboratory In Long island City.
y Mfaa Mary V0nv Aornhtne - nGNl
Monaire George Vaux. Of Bryn Mawr.
Pa. runs q small milk and dairy farm,
where h has all blooded stock. The
high standard OF the milk and cream
commands high prices, which pay for
the running OF the farm.
Mrs. Mary Jackson, who carried the
mail In Bilston, ENGLAND, from 1919 to
1860. Is estimated to have walked
100000 miles. In all that time she
never missed a day from sickness MOI
took q holiday and only took four Sum
days of.
Farm women In North Carolina have
farm institutes the same az the men,
where they discuss such subjects as
| health hints, home sanitation, methods
Of cooking food and dietics, bread
making, labor saving devices and
whatever tends to tighten the burdens
Of farm life.
By the terms OF the will OF William
n. Locke. late president of the Phiia-
delphia baseball club. his wife now be-
comes q rival of Mrs. Britton. Of the
st. Louis club. Mrs. Locke IL the sec-
ond woman in the United States to be-
come a major league baseball magnate.
Mrs.. Letitta Riddle. of Chickasha,
Okla. has the distinction OF being the
only woman member Of the commits
sion recently named by Governor
ICruce to investigate the plans Of the
worlds training for marriage move
ment, q benevolent Organization char
tered under the laws Of Oklahoma.
Oh. Louise Pearce, the only woman