The Washington herald., 1913-05-04

In Berlin there are 4o1. $50 married cou-
pies, with ss,3a1 children.
The average strength of q woman as
compared with that of a man is 81 to
100.
Officials of the Department Of Agricul-
ture. claim that girls make better farmers
than boys.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
| luton have an income of $4,000 year
and a membership of over 100000.
The women Of Morocco never see their
husbands until after they are married to
them.
| In Arizona there il a woman who, with
| the aid OF her three daughters Is sue
| cessfully running three mines.
Mrs. William K Vanderbilt jr., Is her
! own architect for a 100000 mansion to
be erected on her property at Jericho.
Long Island.
| A bill to enable women to become bar
risters, solicitors, or parliamentary agents
has been introduced in the British Par
! Lament.
William D. Haywood. who was on trial
| recently for instigating a strike in Pater-
son. N. j.. was ably represented by Miss
Jessie Ashley, a member of the New
| York bar.
Mary Frances Petre, daughter of Lady
| Audrey Petre, of England, who is only
twelve years of age, is the youngest
peerless in that country.
All looking glasses have been removed
| from the high school building in Wheel
| ing, W. Va; because the girls wasted
too much time in arranging their hair.
Full franchise privileges have been
granted women in nine States, while In
thirty-two they have the right to vote
on school questions in various degrees.
Over 5000. 900 women in California, Ore
gon. Kansas Arizona, Idaho. Wyoming.
Colorado, Utah. and Washington now
have the right to vote at all elections.
Mrs Key Pittman, wife of the new
Senator from Nevada, is the only woman
in Washington society who ever went
over Klondike snow and ice 1000 miles
to get married.
In a competitive examination given by
the Beth Israel Hospital. of New York.
in which thirty men and one woman
took part. the woman candidate led all
her competitors.
In order that she may lay the corner
stone for the new gas plant in Benton
Harbor, Mich. Miss Jessie J. Dickman
was made an honorary member OF the
Bricklayers' Union.
Miss Mary L. Kern has brought suit
against the New York Telephone Com
pany for SIS, 900 because her picture was
published in the company's monthly
magazine without her consent.
Mrs Isabella Goodwin. who Is a bona
fide member of the New York Police
Department, was largely responsible for
the capture of the principals in the IA
nous SIS 900 taxicab robbery.
At the age of thirteen years. Curra
Dunno, an Irish girl. has been select
ed to play for Ireland in the interna-
tional hockey match. No girl approach
ing her youth has ever played before in
such important games.
The only woman representative out or
1000 delegates from all parts of the
world to the International institute of
Agriculture to be held in Rome Is Mrs.
Kate Trimble Woolsey, who has been
appointed by Governor Sulzer, of New
York.
A blind woman's club has been formed
in New York City as one OF the many
activities Of the Association of the
Blind in that city. On a meeting night
more than forty women, all In the dark,
chat vivaciously, and everybody seems
to know everybody else by their voice.
Nine Alice de la Ruelle, who is in
French Department Of Commerce, in
vestigating industrial conditions sur
rounding working women, says that the
French girl can live on 50 cents day
because she has no desire to emulate the
dress and mode Of living of her sisters
on this side Of the water.
After July 1, over a hundred women. |
most of them widows of old soldiers,
will be deprived of livelihood in Phila- |
delphia, owing to an order of the War
Department, which transfers the manu- |
facture of 1900 pairs Of army trousers
now made at the Schuylkill Arsenal, to |
the Quartermaster's depot at Jefferson !
vile, Ind.
Under an ordinance recently passed |
in New York City requiring all city en- |
ployes to be residents Of New York State, |
more than 800 teachers in the public |
schools. and over 100 stenographers in |
various city departments. must give up |
their positions or change their residence.
Miss Kate Gleason, daughter of the |
owner Of the Gleason Machine Works. of |
Rochester, N Y, has superintended the |
in Europe Of several machines |
built by the Gleason works. of which she
is a director. She is a thorough engl-
neer, having taken college course to fit
herself for the position she now holds.
Through the energy and enterprise or
Mrs Heloise Rose, of New York City, N.
Y, who induced forty buiness men in the
project, a trolley line will be built be-
tween Nyack, New City. Piermont, Hav-
erstraw and several adjacent villages in
New York State. Mrs. Rose Is worth ST.
100 600, having been the only heir of her
father, who was associated with the late
FAY Gould in railroad building.
Philadelphia now has, two policewomen.
MissNL. M. Gillespie and Mrs. Mary d.
Diehl, h&sipg recently been sworn in with
he powersSo make arrests in the two
-ailroad terminals where they are sta