Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-10
ACTIVITIES OF women

wage carners.
Women are barred from teaching
school in Vienna.
New York is to build q IA story Jail
for women.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is opposed to
woman suffrage.
Blindness is more common among
men than women.
The University of Nebraska has 81
women instructors.
Boston school teachers will shortly
from Il union.
Austrian women are now demanding
the right to vote.
New York's birth rate in 1918 vas
the lowest since 1903.
Florida club women nave II travel
ing libraries.
Married women form a larger part
of the workers in England.
In New York one female in every
nine is employed in a factory.
Philadelphia has 1900 women en-
gagged in the bOokbinding trade.
There are over zoo, 900 trained women
nurses in the United States.
The Pennsylvania Federation OF
Woman's Clubs has 81, 900 members.
Women of the Russian royalty now
appear at court with colored wigs.
Miss Mary f.. Orr is one of the high
est paid StenOgrapherB In the Ountr
Washerwomen employed in the Lon
don %laundries are taught musical In
struction.
Nearly 5000 women committed sui
eide in the United States last year.
Women were pressed into service as
snow shovelers in New York city re-
Gently.
The number of women factory work.
ers in New Zealand has increased "a
per cent.
Mrs. j. c. Estes is at the head of the
cheering up department Of a Michigan
sanatorium.
The Florida State College for wom-
en- has purchased a farm for use Of tho
students.
In Russia all women school teachers
are forbidden to have more than two
children.
Every 10th woman in the United
States is a prostitute. according to
Judge Ben Lindsay.
The English birth rate is decidedly
lower at present than 1t has been for
many years.
Working girls in Ohio under the ~
of IS receive an average wage Of from
So to SIS per week.
The English government has ap-
pointed two women to the advisory
council for medical research.
The watch makers and repairers'
trade has but one woman Mrs. r. j.
Flint, who is an expert at her work.
In Oregon when a husband dies from
alcoholism the saloon keeper must pay
the wife a compensation.
In Cincinnati the girls in the domes-
tic science classes prepare the noon
meals for the open air school children.
Women are supposed to live longer
than men because they do not use the
brain cells as vigorously as men.
The Patriotic League Of French
Women have started a campaign
against indecency in dress by the So
ciety women of France.
Over / 5000 immigrant girls were
assisted by the Travellers Aid society.
of Philadelphia, during the past year.
Miss Julia Avery. Of Madison. Wis,
is to supervise a suffrage farm at Rose
Valley. Pa. where only women will be
employed.
Miss Adelaide Keim. leading woman
of b. F. Keith's Orpheum Players, Phil.
adelphia, will quit the stage to await
the stork.
The Children's Dressmakers' union.
Of New York, involving about 10000
women workers. ha decided to strike
for more age
New Jersey has over 10000 women
and girls. above the age OF 16. engaged
In industrial occupations. with an av-
erage weekly wage OF $500.
The New York Woman's University
club has q smoking room. where its
members may indulge in q quiet smoke
with their tea
In New York state the parties have
to be under 1S years Of g to plead IN
fancy In having q marriage annulled.
Mile. M. Carpenter and Mademoisello
Warner. two French women. recently
boxed four rounds to decide the worlds
female boxing championship.
Emily q. Balch. head OF the depart
ment Of political economy Of Wellesley
college. has been appointed q member
Five members Of the senior class OF
the Woman's medical college. Of Penn
sylvania, have just been appointed In.
ternes to the college hospital.
In . blowing match. held at Rtckart-
| Wood. who is SO years Of age. was seen
blowing her furrow with the best OF
them.
Mrs. Herbert c. Hoover. Of Caifor-
mia, has the distinction Of being the
first woman to receive tho gold medal
ty Of America, for achievements.
Mrs. .. II. Hartman. widow Of the
late Edward H.. Hartman. the railroad
magnate, has given $50. 000.to tho Wash
ington Irving high school. in New York
city. for mural decorations.
Women workers IN q Nantwich, Eng
land. clothing factory have gone on .
strike because Of the u~npopulartty Of
young woman. who had to DO pro-
tected from the strikers by the police.
Women In Williamsport, Nd. have
nominated q municipal ticket. claiming
20 vote there ID nothing in the charter
TO prevent them from holding office.
To increase tho splendor OF their
toilets Creole beauties make use OF tho
Cucuyos, q large species Of firefly,
found In the tropical forests OF South
America.
"A woman's suffrage bill has been in
troduced in the Porto Rican Legislature
providing not only for the rights to vote
but the RICH to hold public office ana e
serve on juries.