The Washington herald., 1914-05-25
ACTIVITIES OF
WOMEN
By wMIFRED SHORT.

Ill
By wMIFRED SHORT.
In Spain women seldom 30 out to work
The German League Of Women has
10000 members.
Beriin's school for shop girls IL proving
Q huge success.
The Woman's Bank in Berlin ID doing
very successful business.
Women drawing widows pensions In
Pennsylvania now number 11s
Girl telephone operators in Scranton.
Pa, are going to unionise.
The 10000 working girls In New York
City average but S6.54 per week.
Mrs. winifred Butler Ia a member of
the Ulster flying corps in Ireland.
Miss Sophonsiba Breckenridge has been
admitted to legal practice in Kentucky.
Every woman should be content with
her lot in life II she wishes to be happy.
II is claimed that American women firt
until they reach the age Of thirty.
Women members Of the insurance COM
mission in England receive $500 a year
salary.
women's organisations throughout the
country have a total membership of over
100000.
The Countess of Aberdeen has been re-
elected president of the International
Council Of Women.
In the last ten years the women's
Trade Union has increased its member
ship by $1,000.
now making q practice Of flying upside
down.
Norwegian women live most of the time
out in the open air. doing a large part
of the farm work.
Over 5000 Mexican women have organ
lied and offered their services as soldiers
in the army.
England. Germany. Belgium Italy.
gardening for women.
Fashionable women in London are Vow
black handkerchiefs with their
initials embroidered in the corners.
Queen Maud, of Norway, has a hobby
Of collecting press clippings giving in
accurate accounts OF her doings.
one-tenth OF the marriage licenses is
rAA In nd -
to the bureau from which they are issued
Mrs Mathilde Ford has been made sec
retary Of the committee on education In
New York City at a salary Of 1900 a
year.
Katherine Glover. editor of Today's
Magazine. began her career at the age
Of seventeen. when she was a successful
newspaper writer.
The first American Red Cross nurses
to be sent to Vera Cruz for service were
Lulu T. Lloyd. Mamie B. Hardy, and
Katherine Donnelly.
Princess Mary. of England. who has
Just celebrated her seventeenth birthday,
will. II Is said. not marry until she be-
comes OF age.
Frau Betti Vani. the viennese actress,
who has just celebrated her Tooth BIRTH
day in London. is probably the Oldest
actress in the world.
Mrs Glendower Evans, of Boston. has
been serving continually for thirty years
as one of the trustees of the Massachu-
setts Training School for wayward Boys
The second Sunday In May will here
after be known as Mothers Day, and
the President is requested by Congress
to issue such a proclamation each year.
Mount Holyoke College. which, for the
past seventy-six years, has required
every student to shoulder a part Of the
housework around the college. has abol-
shed domestic work.
Miss Kate Barnard. Commissioner of
Prisons and Corrections in Oklahoma, is
urging the unioniz-tion OF wives, claim
ng that they should not work over eight
hours q day.
One Of the greatest opportunities of
in China today lies in the
work Of music teacher. The women in
hat country want to learn to speak Eng
ish and to play the piano.
Miss Alice H. Thompson will act as
for the youths in Chicago whose
bring them into the jurisdic-
ion of the newly-formed boys branch
" the Municipal Court.
Marie Terrazas, who is sergeant Of
he "Petticoat Brigade" in Gen, Villas
'ebel army In Mexico. is concedd to be
he best sharpshooter ia the ranks of
he constitutfonalists
Queen Victoria. of Spain, is the most |
and best dressed queen in |
europe. She buys her dresses in Paris |
md spends no less than $4,000 a year |
ust for clothes.
The Society Of the Garden Of Jenny, |
ounded eleven years ago by a few char
table women in France. provides more |
han 100000 gifts annually to shop girls |
n that country.
Mrs. Harriet r. Andrew, Of Trenton. |
'. j.. who Is proprietor and manager of |
he Fisher q Norris Anvil Works. is
he only woman member Of the National |
association of Manufacturers.
Sheriff George NJ Weimer. of WASH
ngton, Pa, has appointed his wife as
lis deputy, and 1t Is the first time in |
that a woman has held the
'osition Of deputy sheriff.