Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-11-25
\ WoMEN's ACTIVITIES. =

has a membership of over 10000.
over 5000 German women are ma
rooned in England.
New York city has 2.l53. 1913 workers,
| OF whom $50. 1873 are women.
Kansas City has 4.4S6 working
women whose average wage is so per
week.
Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium is Il
fully qualified doctor OF medicir".
Women BARRIERS. hairdressers and
manicirists in New i"A ~. !'@.--
Der 3.S64.
over 5000 women are. engaged in
| commercial pursuits in England and
Wales
PENNSYLVANIA has nearly 10000 girl
workers between the age of 10 and ~.
SeNenty-fiNe per cent OF the women
are below the So standard figure
measurements.
Many Japanese women earn their liv-
ing by working in the fields and on the
docks.
Seattle clubwomen have started 4
nationwide movement to make women
citizens.
All the women of the Austrian I'M
perial family are acting AS Red Cross
nurses.
Miss Elizabeth Moran has been APP
pointed State Factory Inspector of
Michigan.
Nearly 700 women have graduated
from the Johns Hopkins Training
l CCIlcDI lOI NURSES.
Mrs. Ii. w. r. Strong is the only
woman member of the Los Angeles
Chamber of II
Miss Signe Bergman. president of
Swedish Society OF Woman Suffrage.
is chief cashier of the State ban of
Sweden.
Twenty-seven women nurses were
killed in the bombardmcnt of Rheims
by the
Mine prominent women's clubs i'm
/ Navy Work nifV haVn np13nrSa6 fine l
world peace movement.
Miss Gertrude Dallas is the first
American girl to he admitted to the
Russian dr:ina school. 80.
Girls in the Kansas City public
schools will hereafter be taught how to
launder shirts.
Miss Alice Purinton has charge of all
inventions which have amy application
to the nursery.
Mrs. Richard Derby. daughter of
Colonel Roosevelt. will nurse N
wounded in Paris.
Women and children are taking
places OF the men i'm the vineyards
around Bordeaux, France.
The ealthenwarc, china and porce-
lain manufacturers of England and
Wales employ 29.f39 females.
More than half of the stockholders
who We're caught i'm the failure of the
ii. Ii. Claflin Company were women.
The p%crcentag, of female workers i'm
Philadelphia have Increased 81 per cent
in the past 10 years.
according to the census just taken
i'm Paris, the female population is
$40. 0S7 as against 5S5.4S6 men.
Mime. Poincare. wife of the President
OF France is. working four hours a day
as a nurse in the Bordeaux hospital.
sixt%een-year-old Hazel Thompson
Ct ptured the prizes for baking. can
ming and sewing ut the Ohio State fair
this yeal.
The new Colony club in New York
City, one of the richest wonen's clubs
in the world. will cost over $500. 900.
Mrs. Lawrence Marston not only
writes plays for moving pictures. but
acts ard directs her own plays as
Wen.
-Four. women are running against
Rev. w. u. Mathews for the office of
Commissioner of Charities and Cor
rectiDns in Oklahoma
The Rockefeller foundation has Civ
en- $200, GEO to be used during the next
10 wears for pensioning widows With
dependent families.
Women are filling the positions of
men employed by the Upton Co., of
London. who have been called to the
front as soldiers.
The Philadelphia Board of Education
will establish Little Mother Leagues
so that the girls can be taught the ele-
ments of baby {. re.
Mrs. Margaret Cherdron. who two
years ago was the Taft elector from
hNth' - - - N@ 49,
senate in that state.
The kingdom of SaSony takes first
place as an industrial State in Germany.
and in 1912 had sos, 408 workers. of
wholn 2.6,71o We're women.
Queen Mary. Of England is doing her
share i'll the present war by helping to
KNIT 10000 pairs of socks, which are
needed by the British soldiers.
The international Association of
Steam Operating Engineers has IL wo-
mems auxiliary association which is
absolutely independent Of the inen.
Women juror; Washington are pro-
testing against the non provision of
powder puffs and nighties for them
when they are detained over night on
u case.
Mrs. Annette Abbott Adams. Just APP
pointed assistant district attorney III
San Francisco, is the first woman in
the United States to OCCUPY such u
position.
Su1fragets in England are now
training themselves TO shoot Il rifle and
even the department stores nay set up
range for shoppers to practice at.
Miss Lois Weber is the highest sal
aried scenario writer actress in the
world. having just signed a contract
with Il moving picture concern at q
salary of $4,000 a year.
Only i2S mothers are receiving pen
sions in Pennsylvania. whilc 800 who
have made application. will have to
wait. owing To the inability of the APP
preparation to provide for all.
Mrs. Ballot Scott. the famous woman
rifle shot of England, is teaching young
men and boys how To SHOOT u rifle with
the purpose o. having them efficient II
1 called upon 10 go To war.
Eigateen-year-old Ruth Mercer is
, the only woman truck delivery driver
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