The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-03-12
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Interesting lettings conesrnina The
Doinas Of the Feminine Sex ths
# World over.

Paris has q Mininettes newspaper.
New York has a woman night watch
man. >
Women are now considered just an
able as men.
A woman can exist on slightly less
food than q a ..glHt.# 1r
Girls are used In Germany a. cad
dies by he golfers ~
Denver women are asking that they
be drawn as grand jurors.
Pittsburgh club women are asking
for q woman police chief. If RAJ.
Club women in Indiana propose 70
establish an opera company.
There are over 10000 telephone girls
In the United States. H +
Maine is the latest state to grant
pensions to widows.
Mrs. M. III. Cole 10 president Of q
real estate Arm In New York city. .
Mary CARMEL, of Philadelphia, is dean
of the woman photographers In the
United States. aa- 1..u. +
New York city has over 100000 girls
and women studying home making.
Mrs. Eugene T. Senseney 10 assistant
prosecuting attorney In st. Louis.
Marriages have increased is per cent
during the last six months.
There are over 1000, zoo female
breadwinners in the United States.
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the United States are illtterate. y
Miss Ann Forsyth has accepted b
position of policewoman in Aurora, Ill
More than 10000 women have asked
for widows pensions Ia Pennsylyania-
Denver school gtrls have voted to
limit the cost OF their dresses to So.
The Pennsylvania widows pension
New York has over 10000 girls who
are walking the streets looking for
work.
Bombay, India, has 11s municipal
areas in which women possess b
franchise.
Columbia university Is giving Do
grees to students proficient in laundry
Madame Louise Edvina, the prtma
donna, says that love should come be-
fore eugenfcs. ."- 5G I'LL" :
Th~ree-fourths of the women workers
In New York city receive less than
$500 q year. .... .Et .M n
A sister of General villa. the Mexi-
can rebel leader. attends school In .
About seven-eighths OF the 2,2oo
woman graduates Of the University Of
Wisconsin are teachers.
Mrs. Isabella Burns, of Reading. Pa
has applied to the courts for her natur-
alization papers. .@"* -
The majority Of women workers IN
the paper box industry n New York
are earning less than $3.50 a week.
The German postal department en-
ploys over 5000 girls whose wages
range from $3.50 to $3.50 a month.
T~hree-fourths OF the audiences at all
theatrical performances In this coun-
try are women
Mrs. Catherine Eisenhart, q police
woman, is instructing the San Fran
cisco police how to tango.
At the present time 118 wornen have
the right to wear the coveted red rib
bon Of the French Legion OF Honor.
Paris ONE 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 n that country.
Mile. Helene MirenolsLy, q member
cate themselves for diplomatic posi-
lions.
Frieda Hempel. the opera singer, has
received first prize at the Berlin food
witt her potato salad recipe.
The South Carolina Legislature has
voted unanimously against he pro-
posal to grant school suffrage to
In all German cities with over 10000
there are only Sc women
medical doctors and only 80 women
dentists.
Miss Catherine L. Grady, OF Wash
ington, IL wholly blind but has be-
come proficient as operator OF q type
machine.
over $500 young women are attend
ing universities In Germany this year,
being Ave times as large a. 1t was four
years age. -
washing their mouths with soap and
water is the punishment melted out to
disobedient girls In the New Jersey
State Home for Girls.
Mrs. c. M. Corkle and Mrs. Tenn
pie Gibson, Of Prentiss county, Mis-
sisstppi, earns over $1,000 o year by
raising OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .
Despite the fact that she Is 90 years
Of g Mrs: Helen A. Hagef. Of Hack
ettstown, N. j., recently went oast-
ing with the children. "S
Miss Marie Tompktns. . woman OF
unusual strength, Is in charge Of the
detective squad in q Philadelphia de-
partment store.
Mrs. John w. Gates, widow of the
oil magnate Of that name, recently
up over 81, o o 900 on the rise In
Miss Mary Best, of Barber county,
Kansas, is the best known farmer In
that state, where she runs q large farm
on scientific principles.
Minnesota has owe 100 community
composed OF women whose OBJ
ject Is to establish better living condi-
tions for the women ON farms.
Mrs. Henrietta N. Smith, widow Of
the late Charles Emory Smith, who was
at n time postmaster general ana
ambassador to Russia, Is to become q
nun.
Among the IT who qualified for the
position Of assistant dentist In h
bureau of health Of Philadelphia was
one woman, who was second on Tho list
Mrs. Katherine Warham, who is
bringing suit against q London store,
acted az her own lawyer recently and
made q nine-hour speech in her appeal
for a new trial.
In the past two years 957 women
have successfully passed civil service
examinations In Philadelphia, and out
Of this number 387 received appoint
ments.
Graduates Of Philadelphia woman's
Medical college, have organized TO con-
slider plans for raising $500, 900 to be
used in expanding the facilities and
usefulness Of the college.
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