The Washington herald., 1913-06-08


Interestins Jottings coneernins the
Doinss of the Feminine Sex
the World over.
Utah has passed the red-lisht bill.
The textile factories Of Prussia and
saxony employ over 10000 women.
There are over $4,000 women teachers
and professors in the United States.
The artificial flower and toy industry
in Germany is largely in the hands OF
women.
The women Of China knew how to
weave 1000 years before their European
sisters.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt will take an
active part in politics in the district In
which she lives.
Women from all parts Of the world will
meet In Budapest. Hungary, on June Is
to urge the suffrage cause.
A separate bureau for women labor
viii be given consideration when the in
vestigations of the Department Of Labor
| are begun.
the jefferson County On. - Court re-
Gently. Miss Bertha o'Donnell, deputy
clerk. acted in his place in admirable
style.
The New York Board of Education
has decided that IL wife has been
abandoned for year she Is competent
e. In he nrhlir sChnnlg 0f that
city.
Mrs. Emma C. Roseboro has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Pomeroy. Pa,
where she has served In the capacity OF
clerk for a number Of years
Representative Richmond p. Hobson OF
Alabama will have the support of the
woman's Suffrage Association In his
fight to succeed Senator Johnston.
The National Union OF Clerks, founded
| twenty-one years ago in Berlin. Ger
many, is one of the best organized unions
in the country. having over 5000 mem
bers.
Three women will be included in the
| twenty-five additional police Officers tc
| be appointed in San Francisco. and thu
| force OF women will be increased a:
1 rapidly as COnOluOns WdIrnnl
Miss Fola La Toilette. actress. woman
suffragist. and daughter Of Senator l.
| Toilette. claims that II you put the anti
=, suffrag ist to the acid test you will find
that they lack in democracy.
| The bill providing for a commission Of
three, with power to fix minimum wages
| for women and minors, introduced in the
| A. Ta~Ielofttra Ganafnr HaleF
Ring Robinson. has been signed by Gov
Ammons.
| Nine. Melba, the opera singer, has beer
singing on the operate stage for twenty
FIVE years Since she first sang in Lon
don she has earned more than 100000
and has travelled more than a millior
miles on land and sea
| Countess Lamsdorf. of St. Petersburg
Russia, claims the worlds long-distanc'
| dancing record. having covered 800
miles on ballroom floors. She has at
tended Lose balls and danced 2.s34 quad
rifles, 500 polkas, and $500 waltzes.
The first collegiate magazine producet
by girl undergraduates has Just beer
published in Manchester, England. Be
sides writing every line that viii appea
. the Uldsdznc. Nhc ehis ANo'
and correct the proofs and superinten'
the makeup"
Omaha women are asking for the priv
ilege of voting on municipal questions.
By the terms of the will of widowe
who died recently in Sicily, the frs
woman to be elected to the Italian Par
lament will receive $4,000.
Miss Frances Bogert. Of Evanston, Ill.
has been chosen college policeman q
Wellesley College. She will have charg
Of several hundred freshmen next fall
Miss Melva B. Wilson. who has beel
calle- Americas foremost sculptor. Is {
become a nun.
The clubwomen Of Boston are trying I
work out the problem Of q street matron
Mrs Geraldine w. Fogler, who wa
graduated from vassar College. will tax
charge of her fathers large estate, nea
Poughkeepsie, N. T., which she say
will be managed on scientific basis.
Miss Emma DevaIasco. stenogra
pher In a San Francisco lumber of1c<
has been pronounced the prettiest gin
| in California by a committee VINO se
lected her as a poster girl for the fou
hundredth anniversary of the discover
of the Pacific Ocean, to be held In DC
tober.
An American woman, Miss Susan Z
Huntington, has the distinction Of be
ing director of the International Inst
tute for Girls in Madrid, Spain. Thi
| school is the first and only non-sectar
ian school in Spain to be, incorporate
and maintained for the sole purpose o
the education Of women.
Mrs. p. ]. Thomas and her daughter
Miss Nettie Hornbeck. are two wome
who are practical miners. both thor
oughly understanding formation and tn
treatment Of ores. They own the prog
erty which they operate. consisting 9
fifteen claims comprising eighty acre
| of placer ground, located on Bear Noun
tain In the San Juan Valley. Colorado
Miss Edna stauffer and Miss cari
Biosser operate farm near Rochester
N. Y, where they do all the plowinl
seeding, cuitiyating. and harvesting. |
addition to looking after the chickeni
milking the cows and making the buttei
Mrs. Elizabeth James has sccumulat
ed q fortune selling watercress in Lor
don. She began as child Of nve year,
going about with q basket OF cress, an
now supplies nearly every hotel In Lon
don. She owns q watercress farm.
country house, keeps . motor launch
and maintains . city residence.
According to an edict by the Chimes
J government. women are TO wear Euro
pean hats, but otherwise retain thei
!. ruef or,. ~ dor Nth cortniu modf0