Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-09
ACTIVITIES OF women

tors.
Queen Mary. of England, is a skilled
nurse.
For every marriage in Kansas there
| are five divorces.
English women are taking up cricket
as We'll as bowling.
A girls boarding school will soon be-
built at Tanta. Egypt.
Stocklngless women are setting the
fashion at the Paris races.
Americans waste $50. 600. 900 an
nually on titles for their daughters.
Girls are employed to knock out as
bestos from the rock in the mines of
! Cyprus.
Mrs. Katherine Clayton has applied
for a position as policewoman in Phil
adelphia.
A Cologne. Germany, woman was
fined for Islander when she called "A
teacher Il suffraget.
Mrs. Edgar s. Sisson is serving as
sanitary Inspector i'm Montclair. n. j..
In the half-savage islands of Ma
laysia the women make corsets of
telegraph wire.
Each woman of the Housewives
league in env is IA self-appointed
milk inspector.
A laundry school is maintained In
New York by the Charity Organization
society.
Many fashionable women were seen
smoking at the polo games i'm Phila-
delphfa recently.
There is a decrease in militancy in
England since the cat and mouse act
went into effect.
In the past 10 years the Carnegie
Hero Fund commission has made
awards to "a women for heroism.
The Missouri College of Optometry
recently graduated three women. the
nrst to be graduated in optometry.
Miss Iva Harrington won the re-
publican nomination for clerk of Clak-
mas county. Oregon. at the recent pri-
marieS.
There are over $4,000 girls in the sec
ondary schools of Japan studying Eng
hsh as a part of their course.
Inc Women's Christian Medical col
iege. IN L%udihana, India, was founded
by DR.: Edith Brown 90 years ago..
Or the - students who deserve spe-
cial mention for their work at the
University of Wisconsin II are women.
Queen Mary. of England. has "A flag
OF her own which flies over Bucking-
ham palace in the absence of King
George.
Mime. Decaste!la. of Paris, recently
assembled in Il biplane to the height of
5000 feet and dropped safely with IA
parachute.
A national training school for women
organizers will be established by the
National Wonen's Trade union
NAAS' III lIC IIISl LIElISI woman
to take up flying as a career, has in
vented a saucepan cleaner.
Clerks in the Philadelphia marriage
license bureau are working overtime
issuing licenses to June brides.
The queen of Denmark has n passion
for fine hats and has no less than SO,
some of them costing as much as $4,000.
Inc house maids at buckingham
palace have gone on a strike because
Queen Mary curtailed their hours or
rest.
The I-ondon police object to the bill
introduced in the house of to
employ women on the force.
Miss Mildred j. Cook, court stenog-
rapher in ST. Louis, is said to be the
highest salaried stenographer in that
city.
Miss Alice Brown, the authoress. has
Just won the $4,000 prize Offered by
Winthrop AmeS for the best American
play.
Mary Walsh, who has been selling
apples in Battery Park, N. Y. for the
past 40 years, has decided to retire at
the age of "a.
Women stenographers in the employ
OF the United States government re-
ceive only s720 a year for the same
work that men receive $500.
Laurette Taylor has just ended her
engagement in Peg o. My Heart" after
playing the leading role for 6O4 con-
tlnuous performances.
Miss Jennie Dunlap, Of Springfield.
Ill. has been elected to the highest
office in the Degree of P~ocahontas. that
of great Minnehaha.
Detroit club women are asking city
councils to appoint 10 Of their mem
bers as sanitary INSPECTORS so that they
can clean up the city.
NO new students will hereafter be
initiated into any secret organization
at Wesleyan college. the oldest won,-
ems college in America.
Princess Xenia, the eldest daughter
of King Nicholas, of Montenegro. prac-
tically rules that country as her father
never makes q decision without first
consulting her.
Mrs. William Schryver has succeeded
in defeating her many male candidates
for the office of postmaster at La
G~rangeville, N. Y. having a percentage
far above any of the men.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union in New Mexico recently pur-
chased u distillery which will be dis
mantled and The parts distributed
throughout different parts of the state.
Although she Is nearly 100 years of
age. Mrs. Manora Johnson. of Carthage.
Mo-, washes once Il week. bakes twice
a week. cares for a seven-room house
and seWs for two little girls.
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