Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21
interesting Jottinss Concerning tn
Doinss Of the Feminine Sex tho
World Over.

World Over.
Russia has over 40 female priests.
st. Louis has Il woman'S law college
The Japanese newspapers employ
many m
Women are most preferred as mill
larry spies.
Japan has over 1000 female telephone
operators.
a woman can exist on q trifle less
food than q man.
Italy has 5000 women cigar makers
A child Is born every 16 seconds in
Germany.
Lima, Peru, has Il woman suffrage
In the Melanesian islands women do
he proposing.
Twenty women in every 100 have
dark eyes.
England has 90 women chemists who
w their own business.
In India yer 95 per cent of the wom-
en- cannot read or write.
Nearly 300. 900 women are employed
in h cotton mills in Japan.
h United States Steel corporation
has over $4,000 women stockholders.
New York has over 100 women phys
icians engaged in preventive work.
The Washington, ID. c., police de-
partment is advertising for two police
women.
At the age of rs. 46 per cent of the
wage earning women quit industrial
work.
Queen Amelie. of Portugal. has VOL
teered as a nurse in the English army.
There are over 1900. 900 more women
than men in the British Isles.
Mrs. j. c. Sims. of Chattanooga,
Tenn. plans to fly around the world
In her aeroplane.
Women are taking the places OF men
on the Paris street cars since the war
began.
One woman in every three in the
less than $2.40 a week.
Miss Agnes O'Day is running for the
nomination for secretary Of state in
Colorado.
Before being organized women brick
makers in England had to make 1000
bricks to earn SIS cents.
1t is claimed that women medical
students complete their course much
quicker than men.
The average earnings of women en-
ployed in the clothing trade in Eng
land is s2.12 per week.
Women among the lower classes in
New York have started a crusade
against high rents.
Women constitute only 4 per cent Of
n persons engaged in transportation
in this country.
Women are now prohibited from
working between certain hours at night
In Ia European countries.
In Persia women are forbidden to go
unveiled in the presence OF any man
but her husband.
A Pennsylvania woman paid $25. 00O
to a beauty doctor to make her a phys
ical ornament to her home.
Teachers in the Newton, Mass, kim
dergarten schools receive only $500 a
year salary.
OF all the immigrants that come
into the United States. women consti-
tute IS per cent.
1t is estimated that in the United
States there are over 1900, 900 women
who are illiterates.
Twenty-Five cities in the United
States now nave p0licewomen, and
three have departments of public safety
for
Eighteen women have been nomin.
ated as delegates to the State Constitu-
tional convention in New York.
Miss Lima Bresette. the first woman
factory inspector in Kansas, is Urging
that state to maintain an industrial
school,.
Servian women are constantly drill
ing so as to be prepared when called
upon to tai UP the rifle and 20 to war.
Queen Elizabeth. Of Belgium. is in
active charge OF the nursing corps
which Is accompanying the Belgium
army.
Finland with q women in their mar.
lament. has more females in the as
sembly than any other country.
All militant suffragettes serving
terms in prison in England have been
released on account of the war.
Miss Anne NJ. Evans. a graduate of
Vassar College, has Just won her first
In st. Louis. NJ
lsadora Duncan. the dancer, has in
stalled 100 beds in her Paris school for
the use Of the government.
Mime. Brouitch, formerly Mabel Dun
lop. OF Clarksburg. w. Va, and wife
Of the servian foreign minister in Lon
don. has Joined the Servian Red Cross.
Miss Margaret Wilson, Oldest daugh-
ter of h president, will lake up the
duties of the mistress OF the White
House now that her mother is dead.
Mrs. NJ. E. Henderson has a bun.
galow In the depths of the Oregon
woods which she built herself and has
builder and woodsman.
Mrs. Joseph r. Knowland, wife of
Congressman Knowland, OF California,
9 making stump speeches in favor of
her husbands candidacy for the United
States Senate.
Il Austria defeats servia, an Amer
lean girl-Princess Lazarovich Hrbe-
hanvich. formerly EleanOre Calhoun.
Of California-may be it's joint ruler
with Prince Stephen, legitimate heir to
h Servian throne.
Three women Of France have volun-
teered to serve in the aviation corps.
They are experienced aviatrices, hold
ing pilots licenses, and two Of them
Mile. Marvingt and Helen Dutrien-
have done scout duty since war was
declared.
Among the prominent American
women who are assisting in Red Cross
work In France are: Mrs.rw. Il. Ven
aes6ilt. who has 9 private hospital in
Potter Palmer. Mr.. Caroline Frank
q Mr.. Clarence n. Mack6Y,
While she Il only rs yeara az -.