The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-22
Interesting lettings Concerning the
Doinas of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.

only $4,000 are ome
Women in Cleveland are being asked
to join an anti-Mormon crusade.
Girl coremakers in the Detroit foun-
dries earn from $1.50 to 81 a day.
Geraldine Farrar, the opera singer,
earned $S5, 900 during the past season.
Mayor Rushlight, of Portland, Ore,
has named a woman as his private Sec
rotary.
In the United States there are 2,193
clergymen.
All but one ofNthe women who ran
Tor office at the recent election in Col
orado We're elected.
During the past year there were 2S3,
l9o marriages, 1921 births n 1856,
9bl deaths in England.
SeVenty-four women in Kansas are
holding public office to which the votes
OF men elected them.
Ihe highest average salary paid wo-
men teachers is in California, where
hey receive 1918 a year.
In England there are more women
workers in proportion to population
than in any other country in the world
or a total population of owe a 1900,
00O In Philadelphia, there are over $780,
600 women employed.
Women spend 80 per cent of $40, 000.-
oOO,0O0 annually in the United States for
1000, clothing n shelter.
In France, boards of education are
not permitted to refuse leave of alb
sence to teachers who want to bear
children.
1t is figured that the average woman
spends 242 days gazing into the mir
TOR, we the ages of 16 and 70.
Inc city commissioners of Topeka,
Kan. VIII soon appoint two women as
members of the police force in that
city.
Legal protection is thrown around
the working woman who bears a child
IN ~ countries or parts of countries in
Europe.
The number of women and girls en-
gagged in prostitution in this country
at the present time is estimated at less
than 600, 900.
Mrs. H. S. Keeran has been appoint-
Cd justice of the peace at Princeton,
Gal, TO I'LL out h unexpired term of
her deceased husband.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson of Coll
orado, will make a suffrage campaign
TOUR through New York, New JERSEY.
pennsylvania and Maryland.
me women of New York spend S.
oVo,ooo annually for cosmetics, using
apo 1000, 900 pounds of powder, rouge
cold cream etc, a month.
Despite the fact that she is past &c
years of age, Mrs. Mary Scroggs, of
Los Angeles, Cal, has just COMPLETED
a Trip around the world.
MISS Gertrude Jordan, who was re-
Gently elected treasurer Of Cherrycoun-
~, rep., VIII have absolute charge of
al Ihe county's money.
MISS Zelle Emerson, of Jackson
Mich, gave up an income of $40. O0e a
year when she went to England ~
champion the cause of the s%uffraeers
secretary of the Interior Lane has
appointed Mrs. Annie G.. Rogers as re-
cel ely, of the land office at Leadvi1Iel
| Col, at a S91ary nP GO 0aO n $500
Miss Dorothy Roberts, or Philade,nh-
IA, IS attending a business college in
oeoer 10 lit herself for the
OF her future husbands business.
Eaucll1fe college has just appointed
torce or eight women police, whose
n giggling students at lectures
marguerite Sylvia, the Belgian-Amer-
lcan prima donna. has been decoratad
with the gold medal of spirit nv tho
G1ano Duke of Mechlenburg-Schwerin.
betWeen 600 and 700 women will he
hGpa ) OF employment if the bill pro-
llipillng girls from working as core
makers In the foundries Of Michipan
become a law.
After testifying that she had SIM
ported her husband for 13 years. Mrs
frances G. Wilmot, of Bridgeton'
Srunn:, tne mother Of Is children, was
granted a divorce.
Enough women have been eligible r.
scnool offices in Illinois for "a years
MRS. Rebecca Lane, who was elected .
member of the Nashville board of edn.
cation, Is the first woman to be
For the protection Of girls t,vo No.
liceWomen will patrol beats in the
downtown district Of Los Angeles. Cal
where many dance halls, skating Kinks
movies and cafes are located.
MISS FRANCES s. Stevens, a Wellesley
who last year broke three
OF the worst colts in the stabla ot
King Alfonso, Of Spain. has b een on =
gagged to train the King Of ItaIv,s
horses his veal. 10Y :
Miss Clara A. Jess, the first wonar
appointed to a judicial position in Cali.
$Iornla, has resigned as r~ecorder-of Da1y
CITY, a suburb of San Francisco. Dur
man to Jail.
Prlncess Mary. the only daughter az
k1ng George, of England, wishes to
learn s~tenography and typewriting and
a succeeded so far that the king
to her. 1865
In spite Of the fact that she w.s
barred off the ballot on a technicalitv
Mrs. Gertrude Schwittay was eIected
superintendent OF schools of Marinetfe
county, Wisconsin, when the
N voters wrote her name on the BAH
~
Miss Lind-af-Hageby. who conducted
her own suit for libel against q Lon-
don newspaper, spoke about 320 oof
words during the is days Of the trial
matching her arguments against the
bar.
Mrs. Meng Yu shih, a widow q
Maniac. China, has the distinction Of
having the largest family in thai emf
pire. Her family consists Of 66 mem.
bers. n with one servant, there are
81 mouths to be fed daily. They III
live under the same roof.
Cities that have women on the
school boards are. New York, Chicago
Cleveland. San Francisco, MiIwaukee
Washington, Minneapolis, Cambridge
Columbus, Denver, Fall River. Grand
Rapids. Indianapolis, Rochester. sd
Paul and Worcester.
Because her husbands company
failed to handle the business with
profit, Mrs. E.. r.. Chapman. wei
known in society. both in the country
and abroad, Us going into the realizes.
tate business so that she can take PER-
sonal charge OF her husbands prop
critics.
Miss Margaret M. Burnett. an at
torney in New York, has been made
secretary Of the Automobile and AZ