The Washington herald., 1913-09-07

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York, Pa. is to have an old maids
home.
Kansas City is to have women fire
fighters.
Women are employed to sweep the
streets in Finland.
Women thieves outnumber the men in
Odessa, Russia.
Thr. Wisconsin Senate has passed the
uGsnics marriage bill.
Nine. Kin seno is president of the
largest bank in Toxic, Japan
New York City has nearly 5000 old
maids among its population.
Women teachers in the Philippines are
paid from 5000 to $l,2o year.
Denver shows the highest average wage
for grade teachers in the schools.
It is estimated that a farmers wife
lifts ton Of water each day.
Out of the 100000 women in India
only about 1900 OF them can read and
write.
While the Bulgarian men were at war
the women had TO run the farms at
home.
California women are beating the men
in their records as efficient officehOlders.
Miss May Minty is the first woman to
be appointed to the police force in To-
rontO, Canada.
Women serve on juries and perform
all { = duties of full citizenship in the
state of Washington.
Berlin has "sister school" whose Oh
ject it is to train girls for domestic
science.
Mrs. Agnes Riddle, who is serving her
second term in the Colorado Legislature,
is the wife of a ranchman.
Among the 374 persons who have been
members of the Legion OF Honor in
France this year three are women.
Miss Lou Rogers, who was brought up
in the Maine woods is said to he the
only woman Cartoonist in the world.
Miss Amy Wren. a New York law
yer. has the distinction of being the
first woman lawyer who ever appeared
in the criminal branch of the United
States District Court, she having de-
Tended a Chinaman who was charged
with manufacturing opium.
Mrs George W. 'Parkhurst. an anti
suffrage leader in Buffalo, n. Y. says
that the women in that city do not care
to vote.
Over a million women in the coun-
try have pledged themselves not to
use the white phosphorus and after
glowing matches.
Miss Eva Bibeau refused the posi-
tioR of city auditor at Long Beach,
Cal. which carries with 1t a salary OF
S2,4OO a year.
Nine hundred young French women
have petitiOned the War Minister to
allow them TO join the army in the
auxiliary service.
Helen Keller. the blind. deaf and
dumb prodigy, is now able to hear mu-
sio by holding her teeth against the
bridge OF a violin.
Women are employed in the foun-
dries of Syracuse and Buffalo. where
they work under the same conditions
and surroundings as the men.
OF the S43 female patients admitted
to Middlesex County (England) asy-
lums in the past year, 293 were either
housewives or domestic servants.
Since Queen Mary Of England an
nounced her disapproval of the cross
saddle riding by women, Philadelphia
women are now riding side saddle.
Bryn Mawr College will train twenty
girls for seven years in the open air
so as to determine whether physical
perfection is a success or not.
The first woman in Japan to, receive
license to drive a motor car is Mrs.
NJ. Wolfe, an American woman and the
wife Of a dentist in Yokohama.
Mrs. Maud Murray Miller. OF Column
bus, Ohio, has been appointed a mem
ber Of the newly created State Board
to censor moving picture shows in that
State.
Miss Frances Pearl Mitchell is known
as the official farm woman of Mis-
souri,, because she manages her own
farm without the help of a man.
Mrs. Frederick Schoff, of Philadel-
phia, has been chosen head of the
newly created home department in the
United States Educational Department
Mrs. Andrew ]. Rogers and her sis
Mrs. George G. Rogers, are
running restaurants in Kansas City
while their husbands are making a
tour Of Europe.
Miss Nellie Frank has been chosen
cashier of the First National Bank
of Petersburg, Ind. She is only twen-
ty-three years of age, and is, conse-
quently, the youngest national bank
cashier in the State.
The Pennsylvania State College has
received a gift of $500 from the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, the pro-
ceads of which will maintain scholar