The Washington herald., 1914-06-09
ACTIVITIES OF
WOMEN
By WINIFRED SHORT.

by "lQlE ILL onOn4.
InterestinE JottinGs CoseerninE the
Doi.E. of the Feminine Sex
the World Over.
Bryn Mawr College will graduate
eighty-nine girls this month.
Both Montana and Idaho have nine
hour day for workinswomen.
The principal occupation for women In
Alaska is canning salmon
It is predicted that women will control
the fall election in Arizona.
Widows of teachers received $4,000 last
year from the Carnegie fund.
In Hungary certain sorts Of military
service Ia compulsory for women
The department Of health in New York
City employs 7s7 women nurses
In Australia the women toll side and
side with the men in the fields
Spanish women will soon start cam
paign for suffrage IN that country
Appledore. England, has a female team
OF bell ringers connected with the parish
church there.
More than half Of al the females In
Germany over fifteen years Of age are
wage earners-
- r-~.S woxnsn a n rule i8. the
man Of the house and has q keen busi-
ness sense
Roth branches Of the Yearly Meeting OF
IN. Friends have indorsed woman SUI
frase.
7, ENGLAND women are on an equality
with men under the new bankruptcy
law.
onlv seven weddings have taken place
In Gloucester Cathedral, England IN tne
past nfty-two years.
women are more sane than men. as
.,atistics show that more men go insane
than women.
In Mexico women and children pack
their belongings ana loioW ene
and father to war.
Mrs. E.. H. Hartman personally man
AGES her enormous fortune and gives a
final decision in every case
Germany leads all the other countries
In the number of members OF the inter-
national Council of Women.
Eiehty-seven women act as teachers In
III. schools operated by the Mormon
Church in the United States.
Fashionable women in London. nave
adopted the fad of having their bed
rooms in black, even to the sheets.
age Mrs. Fanny B. Workman Is still an
,ndefatisable mountain climber.
The new board Of managers OF the
state Home for Girls in New Jersey now
consists of three women and two men.
Miss Elizabeth Bradley has the honor
of receiving automobile license tag NO.
100000 in Pennsylvania.
Miss Sophia Mathis heads a baseball
,eam at Galesburg. Ill, and directs the
nlays from the players bench
Miss Fannie c. Clement is superintend-
ent of the health teaching department Oh
the American Red Cross Society.
one-third of the graduates from Welles-
Lev, College will wed upon the completion
of their term this month.
Salem, Mass, has its hrst woman
"con" Miss Ethel r. Osborne having just
been appointed by the mayor.
FIftv-fye women contributed to the
E.hibition of Original Sculpture by
American women on view in New York
City.
wom.n teachers in the elementary and
secondary schools Of the united states
average 3l5S5l a year in salary.
Jaitv rights for women has been de-
MED by the general conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church Of the South.
s,.teen-year-old Edith Jackson. Of Van
couyer, British Columbia. succeeded in
landing q huge shark recently after
two-hour battle.
Miss Mary z. Lackey has Just retired
after fifty years continuous service as
school-teacher in the St. Louis public
schools.
Miss Elizabeth Woods, an American
girl, has gone to Mexico City. where she
will marry Gen. Jiminez Castro. Of Huer-
ta's army.
In a test vote conducted by q Paris
5os.s7e women declared they
wished to vote and us declared they did
not.
Mrs. Jane d. Rippin has been appointed
special agent for the domestic relations
branch of the Philadelphia Municipal
Court
Miss Cleta N. Smith. Of St. Louis, No..
has antared tha Law ofIacA Of her father