Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
ACTIVITIES OF women,

Russia has several woman priests.
Cleveland has a mounted park police-
woman.
Only is per cent OF the criminals
are women.
For every II men physicians there
is n woman doctor.
The majority of japanese girls marry
at the age of 81 years. i
WOmen form Il larger proportion OK
the educated class han men.
In Turkey husbands divorce their
wives at will and by a word.
Sixteen percent of the girls in Bos-
ton work in candy factories.
Nearly 200. 900 women immigrants
entered the United States last year.
The Women's National Life Saving
league now has a membership of 1900.
There are two women street railway
foremen in the United States.
Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium. Is
known as the mother of her people"
Over half the workers in the cotton
and silk industries are women.
Nearly $4,000 females are working
for wages in England n Wales.
F%orty-four per cent of the college
degrees We're taken by women in 1910.
Pope Plus says that women will
want to be pope in a few years to
come.
Only one in five is doing
something quite unrelated to the home.
Women lawyers number less than one
to 100 of men in the profession.
Less thar 10 per cent of the women
in the United States own property.
Women outnumber the men in eight
prominent occupations in which they
take part.
Twenty-Five letters " been
awarded to girls this year at the Uni
veraty of Missouri.
There are over 500. 900 women In the
limited States WORKING with the needle
and sewing machine.
Fully three-quarters Of the profess
sional women in the United States are
now teaching.
Mattresses work 10 hours a day in
New York, while those In California
only work eight hours.
The United States government has an
official bakery of which Miss Wessling
is at the head.
Eighteen students have graduated
from the Woman's Medical college OF
Philadelphia this month.
1t is claimed that girls should shun
c~igarmaking Jobs as the m ruin
the health and morals.
Hindu who have lost their
husband are not allowed to use the
front door of a house.
The rich women of China are giving
large sums to provide education for
the girls of their country.
More than half the women in the
United States work for pay during
| some period of their lives.
OF the 300 and over gainful eccupn-
| tons in the United States women have
| entered all but four.
Students Mt the William Penn high
| school for girls in Philadelphia will be
given a course in store craftsmanship.
During the past year the increase In
| organized labor among women in New
| York has been III per cent.
1t is that 80 per cent OF
the stock of the large railroads in the
United States is owned by women.
One-ninth Of all the women In the
United States marry before the age Of
Forty immigrant girls have Just been
graduated from a factory school MAIN
tanned by q New York muslin manu.
facturer.
Miss Jane, better known as Aunt
Jane" Syron, has been selling news
papers in Elizabeth, N. j., for the past
60 years.
Madame Natalie Degontcharova, a
famous scene painter of Moscow. Rus
| STA, has started a new school Of paint
ing called Rayonnism.
Miss Ruth McAdie. policewoman of
BayOnne, N. j., has issued an edicttO the
effect that there must be no %spooning
in the parks"
At Rouin, France, SeamstreSseS make
| shirts at the rate of four an hour for
which they are paid at the rate of four
cents a dozen.
Forty-eight per cent of the graduates
| of the American college for girls at
Constantinople have entered thet teach
ing profession.
Mrs. Leffler Corbitt president of
the Texas Woman's Bankers %associa-
ton, is one of the ablest and most pop
ular business women in that state.
Women will be admitted on an equal
with men in the medical department Of
the university of Pennsylvania at the
opening of the next term.
Miss Gertrude M. Williams a medi-
cal student at Syracuse university. has
been awarded a silver cup for beating
q class of male students at dissection.
Miss Cecil Leitch, winner of the
ladies' golf championship. played re-
Gently in England. began to play golf
when she was 9 years Of age and has
never had a lesson.
Although she is not yet 20 years Of
age, Mrs. Elvira GUTIERREZ is known
as the Joan of Arc of northern Next
CO, having taken part in seven battles
in the rebel ranks.
Miss Marguerite 10th. of Cleveland,
Ohio. has patented a hairpin, the top
of which is enlarged and recessed with
spring fingers to catch in the hair when
the pin is in place.
Miss Alice Richard, a society girl OF
New York. not desiring to lead a life
OF ease which her wealth and social
position permits, has become a trained
nurse to work among babies in hos
pitfalls.
Out of every 100 American girls be-
tween school n marriage, so are
either assisting their mother in their
own homes, making homes for their
relatives or working for wages under
some other home maker.
According to DIR. Louis Brocq, the
eminent Franch physician, women are
fast d~eteriorating physically owing to
their exaggerated efforts which they