Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-30

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Interesting lettings Concerning the
Doines Of the Feminine Sex The
World Over.

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Philadelphia has two women millers.
Women retail dealers in New York
city number over 1000.
Several women are employed in the
Swedish mines.
One quarter of the $4,000 dressmakers
in london are idle.
Maiwatchin on the borders of Russia,
i'm Asia. is
over 100. 900 women in Kentucky are
unable to read or write.
Queen Victoria. of Spain. spends over
1000 a Year for costumes.
Most of the culptur work at the
Panama Exposition is being lone by
women
Woman suffrage has been Endorsed
by the New York State Federation OF
Womens Clubs.
brazilian women of wealth regard
shopping AS undisnified and send a
servant for samples.
There are over 1900 hines females
and over 1900 Japanese women in the
United States.
Fifty per cent OF the female workers
in the United States are under u years
OF age.
Among the over 4,60O applicants for
positions In New York city last week
there We're 573 women.
Unemployment, caused by the war,
increases among women in London at
the rate of 1000 a week.
Despite strong opposition. Miss Anita
Grish has been elected superintendent
of the poor in Jersey City.
Many women are among the 1870 vol
unteers who are furnishing blood for
the wounded soldiers in the Lyons.
France. hospital.
New York has a woman Waterman,
Mrs. Ethel Ryan. who guards the dis
trict populated by produce men.
SAN Francisco is to have a Women's
hotel. managed on the same lines az
the Martha Washington hotel in New
York city.
Mrs. Laura A. I.asater. clerk of the
district court. in Pittsburg, Kan, has
been expelled from office because She
talked too much.
Teachers i'm the public schools of New
York city must be over As Years of age
to marry and continue in their posi-
| lions.
The bundesrath of Germany has de-
cided TO furnish financial and medical
assistance to women at the time OF
childbirth.
Mrs. r. e. Lowrey has sailed for LII
IBERIA, where she will take d trip into
the wilds of darkest Africa. taking
moving pictures as she goes.
Miss Miriam Van Waters. who is SUI
peiintendent of the detention home in
Portland, Ore. has three college de-
grees.
Miss Margaret Foley is again back in
Boston to pursue her work of gaining
better legislation for women and chill
dren in Massachusetts.
The National Union of Woman's Suf-
rage associations of Canada is condlct-
ing a campaign for pensions for moth
ers. as a result of the war.
Lady Jelico. wife of The head of the
British navy. has established II tempo
rary hall for women in the Halnmon-
smith road section of London.
Mrs. Charles S. Whitman. wife of
the governor-elect i'm New York, is an
ardent suffragist and is doing all she
can to assist in its educational propa-
ganda.
Mrs. j. II. Blondin. formerly Miss
Mae Cochran, of New York, has been
elected county tax collector in Glen
county. California, at a salary Of $1,000
a year.
Since the women OF Norway now
have equal rights with men they have
dissolved the Society for Suffrage Of
women. there being 40 reason for its
activities.
Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge. president OF
the National Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage, claims that only I
per cent of the womenin the United
States are suffragists.
In China the Easter bonnet is un-
known and the nearest approach to II
hat is the high headdress of the Man
chu woman. who must be married in
order to boast tnis adornment.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker is now serving
as the town crier at Chertsey. England,
while her husband, the holder Of tho
post, is at the front. This is the first
time that a woman has acted in his
capacity.
Young girls have been advised to
keep away from Chicago by q woman's
organization of that city which has is.
sued circulars telling of the perils thai
II girl must contend with in the Windy
city.
The Duchess of Marlborough has fort
flied her london home against Zeppelin
attacks by having Il stout wire netting
stretched across the roof OF her house
at the height of several feet.
Mrs. Anna II. S~teinaurer will prob
ably be Boston's first policewoman az
Mayor Curley has declared that he will
find a way to appoint her to the police
force despite that fact that he has no
authority under the law.
Many thousands OF women are en-
ployed by the British government as
telegraphic and telephone operators.
both systems now being owned and
worked by the government. These wo-
men are paid from 1918 to $40 per
week.
The only woman in the United States
to wear the cross of the legion of honor
is Mrs. S. P. r. Dugmore, OF Great
Neck, L. L., who was Mrs. Bramhall
Gilbert before her marriage to Captain
Dugmore, of the British army.
Governor-elect Whitman. Of New
York. will receive a delegation OF suf-
fragists who will advise with him as
to the nature Of the message regard
ing woman suffrage which he will first
give to the legislature.
In order that larger contributions
can be made for the relief Of the suf-
fering both at nome and abroad. "a
girls who wiz make their debut in Bal
tilnore society shortly W. agreed t.
refrain from extravaganza in entertain
ments.