Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-10-23
Interesting Jottinss Concerning Il
Doinqs Of tho Feminine Sex the
ita wou1l 1--WE.

Az tne age OF ~ there are more Re.
males h males.
Between the ages Of rs and 100 Their.
are more women than men.
Women garment workers claim 4
total membership Of over $4,000.
All German states now appoin wo.
men factory and other inspectors.
Smoking suits are the latest fad
among the fashionable women of Lon,
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 a living.
Turkey will soon open schools tc
teach their women useful trades and
arts.
The strike of the ladies' tailors in
New York has been won by the strik.
ers.
The Duchess Of Aosta will spend
SIX months hunting In the 1ungles Of
Africa
In Germany there are $4,000 wo.
men independent owners and heads o.
establishments.
Russia has eight schools for mid,
wives and six schools for surgeons
assistants of both sexes
Over 5000, 900 adult women workers
are getting an average wage of less
than So per week.
Frenchschool teachers are striving to
have their pay made equal to thai paid
to the men teachers.
Nine. Loudon, wife Of Jonheer J.
1oudon, minister of foreign affairs of
Holland, is an American woman
Ada Boshell recently celebrated the
fftieth anniversary of her first ap-
pearance on the stage.
COurtinp monks for uroovx, -,r,o,
Is the latest added improvement to
the new hospital in Cincinnati.
There are six women to one man
IN the teaching profession in Michi-
gan, and the average wage is $44 a
month.
While she was president of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's clubs, Mrs.
Philip N. Moore Travelled over rs, 900
miles.
In most European countries the
maximum working time for women
workers is legally fixed at 10 hours a
day.
Plans are under way to organize
the 5000 girls woh are not members
of the New York City Dressmakers'
union.
Mrs. George w. Cocktails, wife OF
Colonel Goethals, expects to be tho
first woman to sail through the Pan
dLld Cdl1dl.
For the year ending June 80, 1913,
the total INK of female immi-
grants who came into this country
was S9,74S.
In the United States there are sew,
eral hundred musical clubs composed
OF women with a membership of near.
ly 100, 900.
Louisville women are entitled ia
vote on the 81, 200, 900 school bond
l nTnD0C1t10n fn hn C11hv7oiffn1 ~ ~ az
coming special election.
Ideal working conditions for the
working people of Pennsylvania has
been brought about through the eff.
forts OF women inspectors.
Miss Elizabeth McIIlroy, ~recentl,
ter, N. Y, will wear a blue uniform, 4
small toque and a police shield.
Princess Ina Salmon, a royal Tahi.
tan maiden, has entered the publit
schools Of Minneapolis, intending latel
to enter the state university.
School. teachers in Italy are going t,
enter politics in the hopes of betterint
their position as &c the pay ACCORDED
them in the cities and towns.
Girls at Vassar college will here
after be deprived Of butter at the din
ner table n must sleep on a mat
t%resses or curl up on a rug.
Young women Of good education ca,
01AICI lax 6OVCI A11llCl1I S0IVlCS III Eng
land with unequaled salary prospects
freedom from worry n abundan
leisure.
In every 1000 marriages solemnize
In Great Britain 81 are between frs
cousins. Among the nobility the rat
Is much higher, amounting to 45 1
1000.
Mrs. w. Fl. Fox. Of Catawissa, Pa
claims to be the champion woman sho
Of Columbia county, breaking 48 out q
80 targets and killing nine out of
pigeons.
The woman Of Kansas have the fu
right to suffrage. and It is generall
expected that there Will be eight or 1
women members Of the legislature d
next session.
The first woman to be elected to an
office in Switzerland is Miss Olga
LEM, who has been appointed by the
city council of Zurich az a member Of
the city board Of guardians.
The girls at the state college a.
Puyallup, Wash, have helped solve the
high cost Of living problem by learning
to prepare tasteful lunches at q cosl
Of 4 to.5 cents each.
For the first time in it's history the
University of Pennsylvania has a dor.
mitory for m and 1t is crowded tt
It's capacity N has so co-eds on the
waiting list.
Just because she had been advanced
$50 to pay her passage to this country
Marie Gtremungas, Of Greenville, Pa
has married Steven Ahran even though
she loved another.
Over 100 women have qualified a,
lawyers in Russia but are unable tt
Ipractice because tho minister Of Jus,
ltice refuses to allow them to be ad.
United as members Of the bar.
For the first time in the history d
city politics in Beilingham. Wash,
women are preparing to take part. and
Ella Higgtnson, the a%uthoress, is men.
Honed as a candidate for mayor.
Three thousand Kansas women
members of social study clubs in more
than 100 towns OF the state, are goins
to devote this entire study year thi!
season to food and drugs, public health
land sanitation.
Mrs. Charles Henry Hart, wife O
the historian, caused quite a sensa.
ton in Philadelphia recently by ap.
pearing on Chestnut street with {
jarnty walking stick-the first carried
by q woman in the Quaker City.
A tablet in the hall Of q new lodgins
house for women in London refers tt
the fact that the building is erected
In honor of Mary Victoria, wife o
Lord Cursor, who was Mary Letter, o
Chicago, before her marriage.
The will of Miss Harriet Cruft, O
Boston, sets aside $4,000. the incom,
OF which Is to be given to women &
American birth and Protestant religion
OF good character, ove 80 years Of age
land who are In great need"