The Washington herald., 1914-01-11

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Interesting Jottisss Coaceraias the
Doinss of the Femisine Sex
the World Over.
Canada has a women's Industrial farm
japan has granted the right to vote to
two women.
New York has several women as MEM
The University Of Upsala, Sweden. has
1A female students.
/ Princess Wigenstein. who Is ninety-five
years OF age. has just completed a play.
| England has a society of women book
binders and also one of women printers
| DR.. Anna Shaw, the well-known suffra-
gist, has refused to pay her income tax.
New York University has founded 4
| night college for women who have to
work in the day time.
Salt Lake City will have a school for
nurses in connection with the County
Hospital
Miss Anita Grish has assumed her
duties as superintendent Of poor, in Jer-
sey City.
Women may practice law In every
State In the Union except Virginia. Ark
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The city Of odensee. Denmark. has a
, population Of 22,s4s females and only
Is. .2S7 males.
Two million divorces have been granted
in the United States in the last fifty
three years.
There are s11.oOo more white women IN
the South than there are Of colored of
both sexes.
According 20 statistics married school
teachers do better work than those who
are unmarried.
Savannah. Ga, has more women motor
cyclists than any other city of her size
In the United States.
Miss Mary T. Wilson will probably be
appointed as head OF the woman prison
board, in Indiana.
Mrs. Susan Jones, Of Benson. N. c.,
has just celebrated her eighty-fifth BIRTH
day by cutting a new set Of teeth.
Glasgow, Scotland, Is to have female
police II the women's associations there
can have their way about it,
Nearly a thousand girls who went on
a strike in a Philadelphia hosiery mill
have organized a union.
Never before in England have so many
women offered themselves as candidates
for town and metropolitan borough
councils.
Three women have already applied to
Mayor Mitchell. Of New York, for Jobs
in the police department.
Women students will be admitted to
membership in the new ski club to be
organized at the University of Wiscon-
sin.
1t is estimated that militant suffragists
in England destroyed property to the
value OF 2,55o,75o during the past year.
One of the hobbies OF Queen Mary, |
Of England. Is the collection of a repre- |
sentative group Of paintings by modern |
artists. \
The highest wages paid to women shoe |
workers Is to the vampers, who receive |
q cents an hour. The lowest paid are |
women treers or ironers.
Governor johnson. of California, re-
Gently appointed a board of women to |
assume direct control of one of the |
most important reformatory institution. |
Miss Florence Sanville and Fanny \
Cochran. two Philadelphia women. are
taking course in agricultural econo- |,
mics at the University Of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Frederick W. Lehman. wife Of |
the former Solicitor General under Presi-
dent Taft. Is the latest addition to the
"matron class" at Washington Univer-
sity.
The Countess de la Gueriviere, who was
the hrst woman cab driver in Paris. has
gone into a new venture, that of a nurse
in a Paris hospital for dogs. cats and
birds.
There are only 1s.ooo.ooo married wom-
en- In the United States who could be
and during the past year 11n.ooo
couples have found that they were mis-
mated.
A California woman has erected q re-
residence for herself at the age
OF %. With the exception of the roof.
frame and floors, the house was built
by her.
Harriet Freebery. q woman lawyer. has
been engaged by J. g. Kinney, a million
aire. Of Meoninee. Mich, to defend him
In = 10000 breach Of promise suit.
against him. /