Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-01-23
Interesting Jottings Concerning th'
Doinas Of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.


Iowa now has women factory in
spectors.
Toronto. Cana, has a housewives
league.
School teachers in Italy receive less
than 5000 a year salary.
Miss Elizabeth Knopr, of New York,
will have a church of her own
The average pay of school teachers
in Missouri is s37 per -nonth.
Women employees of h government
printing office will have rest rooms.
Over 900 nurses are employed in the
Moscow hospital, the largest in Europe.
The mills of Belfast. Ireland, employ
nearly sc, 600 women workers.
Women's colleges in the United
States are better equipped n those
for men.
Miss Elspeth McClelland is one of the
most successful architects in England.
Women are prohibited from working
at nights in Massachusetts, Nebraska
and Indiana.
Jersey City will probably be the first
city to have women as autobus CON
ductors.
The New York Probation society is
urging the appointment OF women as
BY a city ordinance in Cincinnati
baby carriages are required to carry
lights.
The membership of the Philadelphia
Fencers' club is nearly dominated by
women.
According to the latest statistics
there are 1900, 900 French families with
out children.
Berlin has a store sehere the pic
lures of women who wish to become
brides are displayed.
OF the 800, 800 people employed in the
manufacturing industries of New
Jersey, 8 O,542 are ONE
According v, a prominent New York
theatrical manager 50 per cent of his
matinee audience is feminine and rs
per cent Of the night audience is the
same.
Allowing for losses in slack season.
three-quarters of the women workers
in New York city receive less than
$40C a year.
Jacksonville, Fla. has received a
proper water supply due TO the efforts
of the women in that city.
England has Sc women plumbers 231
women blacksmiths and Sc female
carpenters AMI IA women masons.
Miss Maude o. Minehan, of New York
city has been declared the most beau
tiful girl in Wellesley college.
The women of Ontario, Can, have
combined their efforts to secure the
ballot for married
Mrs. David A. Ames, of Eugene, Ore,
has the distinction of having three
husbands in three months.
N1IlC. NdZdIllONc, Il0 fIuSSlGn actress
has never Worn a corset because she
does not believe in torturing herself,
Washington public schools are teach
ing girl pupils how to keep a father.
mother and three children on 50 a
week.
Granny Scott. who died recently in
England at h g of 1O4 years, had
smoked a pipe for nearly 100 years.
During the first six months of the
fiscal year ISL Japanese arrived in
British Columbia, of which 2S9 were
Ten thousand women engaged in the
manufacture of childcen's garments in
New York have issued a strike ulti-
matum.
Miss Christie Bolmberg has been
elected clerk in Santa Barbara, Cal,
by an overwhelming majority over
her male opponent.
The New York Housewives league
has engaged several women to. act as
inspectors in their crusade against
cold storage food.
The extensive Allen dyeing works
in Philadelphia is conducted by Miss
Katherine r. Alien, daughter of the
founder Of the business.
Mrs. Clara S. Butler, of Cleveland
Ohio. has invented n patent..d a de-
vice which eliminates the harsh. metal
tc sounds in a p%honograph.
The New York board Of aldermen
have refused to pass a bill that pro-
vided payment Of 20 cents a day to
the wives of mel. serving terms In the
workhouse.
Mrs. Thomas J. Emery. the noted
philanthropist n art collector Of Gin
cinnati, has purchased Titian's famous
painting. Philip II, for $500. 900.
Born a slave. Mrs. Amanda Johnson
] Of Albany. Ore. not only mas enjoyed
freedom for so years. but on her SOtk