The Washington herald., 1913-09-28

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 re-
ceive the same pay as the men.
English women are wearing their hair
unconfined as the latest fad.
There are nearly 5000 women laundry
workers in the United States.
The annual average wage of women
school-teachers throughout the country
is s4S5.
There is less public smoking among the
women of Spain than among those in
London
Women ticket sellers are gradually re-
placing the men in the New York the
aters.
At the recent election in Finland TWEEN.
ty-two women were elected to the Par
lament
| OF all the people in Europe the French
have the fewest children and the Irish
the most.
Women are now accepted on the same
terms as men by several of the big in
sUrance 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
I .t,g 10 IA sffaer ufn 10
! lever on the steels.
The percentage OF females from twenty
| to twenty-four years Of age in New Jer-
sey who are married is 4.3
There are 100000 unmarried people in
the United States Of which over 100000
are women.
Fifty-seven women who engaged in a
fishing competition near Nottingham,
England, made n joint catch Of fourteen
ounces.
(, In New York and vicinity $4,000 women
are vitality assisting in making living
cheaper by practical cooperation.
Russia in its treatment of women is
far behind many other nations, only one
woman having been admitted to the bar
thus far.
Miss f. B. Lyons. postmistress at Do
yer, Ohio, wants to quit her job, but
cannot do so because no one can be
found to take her place.
Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams has just
returned from exploring the densest for
ests and most treacherous trails in South
America
Miss Ava Miner. treasurer of Marshall
County, Okla, is probably the only wom-
an in the United States elected to collect
taxes.
Turkish women who appear in public
II clothes which bear the slightest trace
Of European workmanship are subjected
to harsh treatment.
In London women are engaged as cab
bage choppers, rag rippers, pickle filters,
hop pickers, waste paper sorters, and
public health visitors.
Mrs. Russell Sage celebrated her
eighty-ffth birthday recently by sending
checns for $4,000 to institutions in Syra-
cuse, her girlhood home.
For the first time in the history of the
Mercer County. n. J.. jail, no women
prisoners are confined there, and the fe-
male wing has been closed.
The national typewriting championship
this year was won by Miss Bessie Fried
man, of New York, who averaged isl
words per minute for thirty minutes.
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor. widow OF
'Oeauty parlor" in her palatial Fifth |
Avenue home IN New York City.
No girl under eighteen who does not
have "Ool certificate showing that she |
has passed the seventh grade can be en-
ployed as a telephone operator in Ohio.
Mr. Annie K. Dent, who owns and
manages a large plantation in Yazoo
the first bale of cotton to the Yazoo
City market.
A bronze tablet will be erected in Pitts
burgh in memory of the heroic women
workers who lost their lives in the eX-
pIosion at the Pittsburgh Arsenal in 1862
Queen wilhelmina, who is immensely
veal Y in her own right, has settled on
her husband $5,OOO,oOO, the interest on 1t
being about $4,000 a year, which will bet
strictly his own.
Believing that women are more efficient
than men, the General Chemical Com
pany, of New York, has started several
women chemists at work in their labora-
tory in Long Island City.
Miss Mary Vaux, daughter of MIL
lionaire George Vaux. of Bryn Mawr,
Pa, runs a small milk and dairy farm
where she 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 Piston, England. from 1919 to1
1860, is estimated to have walked
quarter of a million miles. In all that
time she never missed day from sick
ness nor took holiday, and only took
four Sundays of.
DR.. Louise Pearce. the only woman
on the stan Of John Hopkins University
has been appointed as assistant
to DR.. Simon Flexner, of the Rockefel-
Ier Institute in New York, where she
will devote herself chiefly to the isols-
lion Of the bacillus Of scarlet fever.