The Washington herald., 1913-08-03

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Women are employed as hodcarriers In
Finland.
Females outnumber the males in Phila-
delphia-
Women outnumber the males in Cam
den County, N. j.. by only ive.
OF the s54 missionaries in foreign fields.
2E are women
The population of New York City is
almost evenly divided by sex.
Mrs. Leila Lynch has been appointed
. policewoman in Salem. Oreg.
Professional female nurses in Germany
number more than 10000.
Women receiving an old age pension in
England last year numbered ssa,sso.
wfhelmina of Holland is the only actu-
ally ruling Queen in the civilized world.
The new electric busses on Fifth Ave
nue. in New York will have women a.
conductors.
Only one woman is employed in the
smelling and refining Of lead in the
United States.
Women work eleven hours day In the
Carolina mills, while the men only work
ten.
Thirty-one women are employed as rail
way brakemen and ten as baggagemen
in the United States.
In all the industries in the United
States 1916 per cent are females sixteen
years of age or over.
There are more than 100000 farmers
wives in the United States, and in nine
States they are voters.
One hundred and twenty-one women are
employed in English tobacco factories to
every 100 men.
The average modern man utters twenty
more words in FIVE minutes than the
average woman.
Atlantic City. n. J., which has the only
woman comptroller in the country, now
wants women police.
The Princess Victoria Mary Gymkhana
and Gymnasium. of Bombay. the only
woman's club in India. has $50 members.
Charlottenburg. Germany. is known as
the town of widows. because IL contains
ASS widows and only 2,35s widowers.
Mrs. Walter Pomeroy. of Los Angeles.
Cal, will represent California in the
worlds beauty contest, to be held In
September at Brussels.
In the manufacture Of corsets, artificial
flowers, feathers and plumes and steel
pens. more than so per cent OF the wage
earners are women.
Nine. Anton TchekhofY, the famous
Russian actress and novelist's widow
has given three years OF her stage earn
ings to advance the interests of womer
in Russia.
A memorial has been sent to Premier
Asquith. OF England. asking him to per-
NIT more women to take government
positions. besides those in the Postoffics
Department.
Mrs. Meta J. Erickson. recently elected
president Of the Amador Central Rail
road in California. is said to he the only
woman railroad president in the United
States.
Mrs. Clarence G. wrentmore. OF Anr
Arbor, Mich. left her husband for two
years so as to study at the Universit,
of Michigan. where she has Just beer
granted her decree.
ryf,o.,ya,ro,s Fla. provn ~ Han,
derson, Ark. carries the mail to Bakers.
field. Mo-, a distance Of fifteen miles over
the mountains.
Mrs Ethel Dana Shepard. Of New Yorl
City, spent $4,000 over her income las
year. Mrs. Shepard Is the daughter o
William B. Dana, who left her $4,000
in trust.
Although Nine. Pozena vikova-Kune
ticka was elected a member Of tn
Bohemian Parliament last fall. she
| has never. taken her seat, there hav
ing been no session since she was elected
Mrs. J. Walters, of Campbellstown
Pa, is said to be the champion sun
bonnet maker, and since last Marcf
has make over a thousand Of these bon
nets of silk, gingham, and other mate
rails. ....
For the second time in four years I,
| much-coveted scholarship at Trinit
College has been won by Scranton (Pa.
girl, the successful contestant this yea
being Miss Kathleen McHale.
The cotton garment manufacturers o
| New York have engaged q woman I
take charge Of the fire drills and to se
that the fire escapes are in order an,
will pay her $500 year.
Miss Anna Maley has the distinction o
being the only woman who ever ra
for the office of Governor Of State. Sh
ran on the Socialist ticket recently 4
Washington and polled 10000 votes.
| Mrs. Albert Jones, Of Menasha, Wis.
] whose husband is unable to work becaus
he has tuberculosis. makes a living TO
herself and husband by doing paper
hanging, a trade which she IL very adep
in.
Russian universities are closed to WON
1 in st. Petersburg and Moscow. wher
5000 women students are studying thes
| special courses and an additional LEO
are at the St. Petersburg Medical Insti
tute for Women.
Miss Gladys l. Palmer, a graduate o
the Philadelphia High School for Girls
has won the $500 scholarship at Barnar
College after competing with twenty-fiv
contestants representing fourteen State
l and TerriforiaQ