The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-08

State college
Onehalf of the women in the
United States marry before they are
20 years old,
Chinese women are not allowed to
select their future husbands, all the
arrangements being made by the par
ents of the affianced couple.
Mrs. Cuncliffe owen organized the
Sportsmen's Battalion of General Kit
chener's army
More than COO women were in at
tendance at the recent suffrage con-
vention held in Scranton, Pa.
Miss Mary Cox of Montclair, N. j..
has been sent to Servia to act as a
Red Cross nurse.
Austrian and Hungarian women are
giving their best-loved jewels to
swell the war fund.
Forty per cent of the votes cast
in Kansas at the recent election were
recorded by women.
The Women's Emergency Corps in
England has a large force of girls
engaged in making toys.
Mrs, Margaret Ash has been en-
ployed for the last fifty one years In
the treasury department at Washing
ton.
Mrs. Elizabeth Schauss, Toledo's
first woman food inspector, is making
a great success in her new position,
Miss Eloise Murray has been ap-
pointed as school tax collector of
Dobbs Ferry, n. Y. She is only y
years of age, and is an actress.
Mrs Frances w Munds, the first
woman elected to the state senate in
Arizona, ran ahead of her ticket by
600 votes
Women students at the Pennsyl-
vania state college are now given
the same opportunity of gaining an
education as the men.
| Burglaries have become so numer-
ous in the apartment houses at st.
| Johns Place, Brooklyn, that the
women now work in shifts at watch
! ing the homes.
Miss Elizabeth Morrok, assistant in
the gymnasium at the University of
Kansas. is the official cheer leader
when the college football team plays
A campaign is being mapped out
by which Mrs. George Thatcher OF
Kansas expects to be elected presi-
dent OF the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
Miss Kate York, the first woman
mayor elected in Illinois, has been
successfully engaged in the mercan
tile business at Kingston Mines foI
the past twenty three years.
Sixty per cent of the women EN-
ployed in the silk industry of New
Jersey have husbands, while in The
same industry in Pennsylvania th'
per cent is something over 81.
1t is predicted that the time il
not far distant when women will
be admitted to the college depart
ment of the University of Pennsyl
vania and receivethe degree Of bach
elor of arts.
In assisting a band of cowboys il
driving a herd of cattle from Portland
Ore, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a distance
of 200 miles, Miss Grace Carter spen
thirty-two days in the saddle
In Switzerland there is only one
divorce for every twenty-five mar.
riages, in France, one for every
thirty; in Germany, one for ever!
forty four; in England, one for ev.
cry 100, and in the United States
one for every twelve.
In England 3,1S5 women are EN-
ployed in the coal mining industry, q.
953 in the building trades, 7,17O
on the railways and 1884 in the en-
gineering, machine making, iror
founding and boiler making trades.
Women will be given a place upoi
the advisory wage board to be es
tablished by the industrial commits
sion of Wisconsin to make the inves
tigation preliminary to the fixing o
a minimum wage for women in Mil
waukee.
Mrs Frederick K. Burnham OF Sar
Francisco, Cal, is probably the cham
pion woman hunter of the world Sh'
has Just returned from the Hrcti'