The Washington herald., 1914-02-01
Interesting Jottings Concerning the
DoinEs of the Femiafne Sex
the World Over.

DofnEs of the Feminine Sex
| the World Over.
Sixty towns in Germany have police
| women
Colorado has eight women city treas
urers.
over 10000 women voted in Australia
in 1919
Shepherd girls in Switzerland wear
| mems clothes.
Bryn Mawr College has forty girls in a
swimming class
Women OF Alaska have full suffrage
without opposition.
English women are rapidly taking to
the game Of la crosse.
German women have petitioned the I'm
perial Parliament for the franchise.
Miss Charlotte McAuley has been act
ing as city attorney in Butte. Mont.
The Illinois Central Railroad will en-
ploy women as gatemen at their ter
minals.
At the age OF eighty -one. Mime. Daynee-
Grassot Is playing leading parts on the
Paris stage.
The majority OF the women of the
Roman arlstocracy have decided TO ban
| ish the tango.
| France is the only country in Europe
where the deaths exceeded the births.
| Washerwomen in Alabama are COM
PEELED to register their names with the
| city health departments.
| Teachers in the schools OF France are
taxed very heavily 10 keep their pension
fund going.
London has club whose object II is
| t. help working women who have talent
| for writing.
| Nearly one-tenth of the appointments
in civic and legislative positions in Penn
sylvania are women.
| About 80 per cent Of the remnant of
the divorce colony in Reno. New, are
women.
The cigar factorie. Of New York en-
plov nearly twice as many women as
they do men.
| Among the $50 tourists who started
from New York recently for a trip
around the world were thirty-three
1 widows.
| Women are not permitted to work more
than six days or fifty-four hours a week
in any factory in New York.
| Mrs. Thomas Hart. wife Of a million
aire manufacturer. is on duty as a po-
| licewoman in Muncie, Ind.
The number OF women voting in New
Zealand has increased from $50 in 1895
to .2l,Sl in 1911.
| Miss Catherine Delham. of Philadel-
phia, has never missed a Sunday at Sun
day school for the past ten years.
Arcadia. Ill, not only has a woman
mayor but all the other officers of i'm
portance are filed by women.
The Berlin women's Bank is said to he
| the only one in the world run for and
| by women exclusively.
Some of the most important govern
ment missions among the Indians have
been entrusted 10 Miss Alice {. Fletcher.
Every person employing females in
factory in New York must provide and
maintain suitable seats for such en-
plOyes.
Dr. Margaret Schallenbercer. who has
been elected State commissioner of edu-
cation in California, receives a salary Of
1900 year.
King Gustave. of Sweden. is in favor Of
woman suffrage and will ask Parliament
to grant them the right to election to
Office.
At least one house of the legislatures
Of New York, New Jersey. Maine. Ar
kansas. North Dakota, Montana and Iowa
voted for suffrage amendment.
Mrs. Samuel Semple. president OF the
Pennsylvania State Federation of wom-
| ans Clubs. has been appointed a member
of the State Industrial Board.
In most of the japanese cities there Is
a public oven where for a small sum
housewives may have their breakfasts.
dinners or suppers cooked for them.
Mrs. Z. T. Stotesbury, wife OF the mil
lionaire banker, recently visited the Phil
| adeIphia night court to see just how the
women prisoners are treated.
The latest thing in women's wear is
loveralls, which are designed for dancing.
While they are like the type worn by
men, they are made of silk or linen.
Queen Mary, of England. has ordered
| that no lady of the royal household may
have any direct connection with business
of any sort, thereby putting an end to
graft"
| Mrs. Barbara Galpin. who has just been
appointed to the planning board Of Som
erville, Mass, is said to be the first
| woman In that State to be thus honored.
Countess Molitor an Tnglish woman.
| will shortly start on a pcrilous trip
across the Ruba-el-Khali, the great sandy
desert of South Arabia, alone, using only
native guards.
II the bill introduced in the New Jer-
sey legislature by Assemblyman Bran
agan becomes a law, several OF that
States cities will soon have women pa
trolling the streets as policewomen.
Although she is only thirty-one years
old. Mrs Winfield Stoner. Of Quarryville,
Pa. is the mother of nine children, and
in competition with $50 others she was
proclaimed the champion cake baker.
Miss Eleanor v. Barnard. who came to
the United States to study American
types, says that the American children
excel in form and are a sturdier lot than
those OF her country.
The first woman to take up the diplo-
matte service as a profession has just
been appointed in Christiania. She is
Miss Henrietta Hoeg and Is to be first
secretary Of the Norwegian legation In
Mexico.
Since Mrs. Cora W. Stewart took the
position OF superintendent of education in
Rowan County. KY, two years ago. she
has succeeded in reducing the number OF
illiterates from 1,52l to ..
The average wages of kitchen maids in
England Is $3.50 a year, while those Of
governesses is $780, Next in order are
nurses. at s1ol-75; parlor maids. at S17.75;
ladies' maids, at s135. and cooks, at S157.5o.
The first woman to be appointed head
Of a Democratic organization is Mrs Ger
trude Lee, who has just become chairman
of the Colorado State committee. In out
lining her plans she says she u o ma