The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-12-04
interesting Jottinas Concerning ths
Doinas of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.

10 practice law.
Germany has nearly 1000, 900 more
women than men.
A women's law college win soon be
opened In St Louis.
England has more thai 5000. o0C
women tndustrtaily employed.
Hindu widows are exposed to con-
tempt 4 Ill treatment
N~fnety-fye per zen of the women
In India cannot read or write.
Under the law IN New York trial
marriages are permitted.
Women in England may fill some of
the highest positions in the state.
New York has 10 school teachers
who are absent to become mothers.
Mrs. Laura A Bachelor is president
OF a national bank in North Dakota
In the medical profession in Ger
many there r 100 women to every
10000 men.
Queen Mary. of England. devotes
sHery spare minute she has to knit
ting for the poor.
Rochamptcn, a suburb of London.
has four duchesses. two of them be-
Ing American ome
Mrs. Coils P. Huntington recently
paid $4,000 duty on purchases made
aoroad to the value of $40. 900.
Over 5000 women are employed in
the manufacture Of wool and worsted
goods In Leeds. England.
In nine states in which woman suf-
rag prevails, there are over 10000 0
females OF voting age.
Since the founding of Barnard col
lege in 1893 there have been 25s mar
ried gu OF Lis graduates.
In the New England States the wom-
en- outnumber the men by 22,4O7, and
IN the mountain states by 322.503.
The average salaries for school
teachers in Atlanta Ca. is s564.83 g
rear while In Denver. Colo. 1t Ia
In the United States last year there
were only $40 women studying medi-
cine. g decrease of 2s7 from the pre-
ylous year.
Femal students IN the University Of
Kansas must learn to swim before
they an acquire credits In physical
education.
Women stockholders predominant In
ne P~ennsylVania railroad and also in
the American Telephone and TELEGRAPH
Mrs n. NJ. Watson. a wealthy society
ieader OF Asheville. n. c., recently
buried her pet dog in q coffin which
Girl students in the wadleigh' high
school In New York are being taught
domestic science with the object Of
making them valuable wives.
Making q bet Of 500 each with their
Iatner. Miss Helen Ordway and Mrs.
Edfth j.. Tunnison walked from New
York to PeekskiI and back.
Grandma Jones'" who for 20 years
mas SOLO newspapers on the streets Of
Los Angeles. pays taxes on property
valued at $50. 900.
The richest heiress In Germany,
Fraulefn Won Marie Annie Won Fried
a ~ 49, -
Germany, VIII marry 81 English peer.
Miss Brenda Franklin, who is n the
United States as advanced agent Of
Mrs. Emrneltne Pankhurst, the suffra-
gist leader. has already received three
proposals OF marriage.
The worlds typewritng record Of
III words a minute was recently
broken by Margaret B. Owen. Of New
York city, who wrote 125 words a min
ute during an hours dictation.
After refusing his proposal Of mar
rage on ~ different ~occasiona, Mile.
accepted Giuseppe Aberghini when he
proposed for the 18th time.
Mrs. Eugene Boigsevian, Who was
inez Mtlholland before her r. Arriage 10
the Holland banker, Is now In this
country, where h will make an effort
TO get back her law practice.
The women OF Germany are on an
absolute equality with the men in
many respects. They work side and
side with the men in the sugar beet
fields, carrying bricks. tend switches on
the railroads. etc.
ate property ts, under. the married
women's property acts Of 1882 and
1908, liable for the support of her pa
rents, husband, children n grand
children to prevent them becoming
c~hargeable to IN union or parish.
~ I2v tho ronant l4o&t,N - .-I--
brewer Of st. Louis, L d=nIsi'9 Rnaes
comes into ar estate vNs I'D at between
$60,00o,0o0 and $%70,0oS,5o0. She now
ranks among the richest women In the
world.
Mrs. Nellie C.. Upham, who attended
h American Mining congress in Phil
adelphta recently, Is the principal
oWner treasurer I'M manager Of q sill
Yer, lead and zinc mine In Colorado
and IS conceded to be the foremost
mining expert. OF her sex in the world.
Miss Fern Hobbs, private secretary
TO the governor Of Oregon, recently APP
peared In Washington as the represen-
tatfve OF h executive department of
that state to adjust claims involving
schoI and swamp lands and to close
other cases that have been pending in
the national capital. She is the first
woman ever SEN there as the official
representative of a state.
The popular belief that the field OF
industrial activities in Mexico IL
closed to her sex is disapproved ~
Miss Eleana Davalos. who, In spite Of
the turbulent condition that prevails
all over Mexico, has Just succeeded in
promoting the construction OF a cable
railway from Tampico 70 Ccrre de
Guadalupe. Miss Davaloy is at the
head OF the company organized to
operate the line.
Mime. Bessie Lazelle has the dig
tinction q owning and operating a fac
tory for the making OF certain items Of
woInen's apparel; where all the help,
even to the ONCE force. are A
been invented by Nine. Lazelle. but her
latest y h rubberized bathing corset
which has among Its points the quality
OF drying 80 quickly that 1t may Sc
worn three or four times q day Il de-
Poor Health and Success.
From the Boston Globe.
Between eugenic marriage agitationa
and demands for other forms Of health
LEGISLATION human beings seem to be max