The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-12
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Interesting Jottinss Concerning the
Doinas of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.

Interesting Jottings Concerning the
Doinas of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.
Paris has a Mininettes
New York has a woman night watch
Women are now considered Just an
able as men.
A woman can exist on slightly less
food h q man.
Girls are used in Germany as cad
dies by the golfers.
Denver women are asking that they
be drawn as grand jurors.
Pittsburgh club women are asking
for a woman police chief.
Club women in ndian propose to
establish an opera company.
There are over $50, 900 telephone girls
in the United States.
Maine is the latest state to grant
pensions to widows.
Mrs. M. H. Cole is president of a
real estate firm in New York city.
Mary CARMEL, Of Philadelphia, is dean
United States.
New York city has over 100000 girls
n women studying home making.
Mrs. Eugene T. Senseney is assistant
prosecuting attorney in st. Louis.
Marriages ave increased Is per cent
during the last six months.
There are over 100000 female
breadwinners in the United States.
Probably 1900, 600 of the women in
the United States are illiterate.
Miss Ann Forsyth has accepted the
position Of p~olicewoman in Aurora, Ill.
More han 10, 600 women have asked
for widows pensions in Pennsylvania.
Denver school girls nave voted to
limit the cost of their dresses to So.
The Pennsylvania widows pension
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women.
New York has over 20, 900 girls who
are walking the streets looking for
work.
Bombay. India, has 11s municipal
areas in which women possess the
Columbia university is giving de-
grees to students proficient in Laundry
n housework.
Madame Louise Edvina, the prima
donna, says that love should come be-
| fore eugenics.
T~hree-fourths Of the women workers
in New York city receive less than
| $400 a year.
A sister Of General Villa. the Mexi-
can rebel leader, attends school in q
| Nebraska city.
About seven-eighths Of the 200
woman graduates of the University Of
! Wisconsin are teachers.
Mrs. Isabella Burns. OF Reading, Pa,
has applied to the courts for her natur-
alizat1on papers.
The majority of women workers in
the paper box industry in New York
are earning less han $3.50 q week.
The German postal department en-
ploys over 5000 girls whose wages
range from $3.50 to $3.50 a month.
Three-fourths OF the audiences at all
theatrical performances in this coun-
try are women.
Mrs. Catherine E1senhart, a police
woman, is ~instructtng the San Fran
cisco police how to tango.
At the present time 113 women nave
the right to wear the coveted red rib
bon of the French Legion of Honor.
Paris women are defying the police
in that city by wearing their hatpins
unprotected as provided by law.
The French senate is considering the
| passage Of a bill that will make mar
| riage much easier in that country.
Mile. Helene Mtropolsky, a member
of the Paris bar, urges women to edu-
cate themselves for diplomatic posi-
lions.
Frieda Hempel. the opera singer, has
received first prize at the Berlin food
show with her potato salad recipe.
The South Carolina legislature a
voted unanimously against the pro-
posal to grant school suffrage to
In all German cities with over $4,000
population there are only Sc women
medical doctors and only 81 women
dentists.
Miss Catherine l. Grady, Of wash
ington, is wholly blind but has be-
come proficient. as operator Of q type
setting machine.
Over $500 young women are attend
ing universities in Germany this year,
being five times as large as it was four
years go.
Washing their mouths with soap and
water is the punishment meted out to
disobedient girls in the New Jersey
State Home for Girls.
Mrs. c.. NJ. Corkle and Mrs. Tenn
pie Gibson. OF Prentiss county, Mis-
sfssippi, earns over $4,000 a year by
raising chrysanthemums.
Despite the fact that she Is 80 years
of age, Mrs. Helen A. Hager, Of Hack
ing with the children.
Miss Marie Tompktns, q woman of
unusual strength, Is in charge of the
detective squad in a Philadelphia de-
| partment store.
Mrs. John w. Gates, widow Of the
oil magnate Of that name, recently
cleared up over $1,000, 900 on the rise in
Oil stock in Texas.
Miss Mary Best, of Barber county,
Kansas, is the best known farmer in
that state, where she runs a large farm
on scientific principles.
Minnesota has over 100 community
clubs composed Of women whose OBJ
ject is to establish better living condt-
lions for the women on farms.
Mrs. Henrietta N. Smith, widow Of
the late Charles Emory Smith, who vas
at one time postmaster general and
ambassador to Russia, Is to become a
u
Among the IT who qualified for the
position of assistant dentist in the
bureau Of health of Philadelphia was
one woman, who was second on the list.
Mrs. Katherine Wa1ham. who is
bringing suit against a London store.
acted as her own lawyer recently and
made a nine-hour speech In her appeal
for a new trial.
In the past w years 957 women
have successfully passed civil service
examinations in Philadelphia, and out
of this number 287 received appoint
ments.
Graduates of Philadelphia woman's
Medical college have organized to on