The Washington herald., 1913-10-12

the Doings of the Feminine
Sex The World over.
Italy has over 100000 women en-
gagged in industry.
At the age of twenty there are more
females than males.
Between the ages OF seventy-five and
100 there are more women than men.
Women garment workers claim a
total membership of over $4,000.
All German States now appoint wom-
en- as factory and other inspectors.
Smoking suits are the latest fad
among the fashionable women OF Ion
don.
Women make the best military spies,
but love sometimes upsets their plans.
over 80 per cent of the women in
Germany are working for living.
Turkey will soon open schools to
teach their women useful trades and
arts.
Ine SITlhG OF the ldultb NdllOIS III
New York has been won by the strik-
ers.
The Duchess of Aosta will spend six
months hunting in the jungles Of
Africa.
In Germany there are 73S,OO0 women
independent owners and heads of es-
adjustments.
Russia has eight schools for mid
wives and six schools for surgeons as
sistants of both sexes.
over 100000 adult women workers
are getting an average wage OF less
than 50 per week.
French school teachers are striving
to have their pay made equal to that
paid to the men teachers.
Nine Loudon. wife of Jonkheer J.
I,oudou, Minister OF Foreign Affairs
of Holland, is an American woman.
Ada BoshelI recently celebrated the
fftieth anniversary of her FIRST appear
Rnce on the stage.
Courting nooks for spoony nurses is
the latest added improvement to the new
hospital in Cincinnati
There are six women to one man in
the teaching profession in Michigan, and
the average wage is $H month.
While she was president of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Philip
n. Moore Travelled over 1900 miles.
In most European countries the maxi
mum working time for women workers
is legally fixed at ten hours a day.
Plans are under way to organize the
5000 girls who are not members of the
New York Citys Dressmakers' Union.
Mrs. George W. Goethals wife of Col
Goethals, expects to be the first woman
to sail through the Panama Canal.
For the year ending June co. 1918. the
total number of female immigrants who
came into this country was 3S9,74s.
In the United States there are several
hundred musical clubs composed of
women with a membership of nearly
1OO, ,OOC.
Louisville women are entitled to vote
on the 100000 school bond proposition
to be submitted at the coming special
election.
Ideal working conditions for the work
ing people of Pennsylvania has been
brought about through the efforts of
women inspectors.
Miss Elizabeth McEIroy. recently ap-
pointed as policewoman in Rochester. n.
u mi nall
toque and police shield.
Princess Ina Salmon, a royal Tahitian
maiden. has entered the public schools
OF Minneapolis. intending later to enter
the State University.
School teachers in Italy are going to
enter politics in the hopes of bettering
their position as to the pay accorded
them in the cities and towns
Girls at Vassar College will hereafter
be deprived of butter at the dinner table
and must sleep on hair mattresses or
curl up on a rug.
enter the government service in England
with unequaled salary prospects, free
dom from worry, and abundant leisure.
In every 1000 marriages solemnized in
Great Britain twenty-one are between
first cousins. Among the nobility the rate
is much higher, amounting to fifteen in
/ 900
Mrs. W. II. Fox, of Catawissa, Pa,
claims to be the champion woman shot
of Columbia County, breaking IS out Of
80 targets and killing out OF ~ pigeons.
The women of Kansas have the full
right to suffrage, and it is generally
expected that there will be eight or ten
women members OF the Legislature at
next session.
The first woman to be elected to an
office in Switzerland is Miss Olga Lenz,
who has been appointed by the City
Council of Zurich as a member of the
City Board Of Guardians.
The girls at the State College at
Puyallup, Wash, have helped solve the
high cost of living problem by learning
to prepare tasteful lunches at a cost of
| to cents each.
For the first time in its history the |
University of Pennsylvania has a dormi- |
tory for women, and ii is crowded to its |
and has fifty co-eds on the |
waiting list.
Just because she had been advanced |
$50 to pay her passage to this country, |
Marie Giremungas. of Greenville, Pa, |
mas married Steven Ahran, even though |