The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-05-14
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
intsresting lettings coneernins ths
Doinss Of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.

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Lolita M. Crabtree Is the richest ae-
tress In the world.
Queen Mary, OF England. Is an ex-
pert judge of laces.
The New York university has Just
graduated 36 women as lawyers.
Clubs for eryants will be organized
by influential women In New :
The French courts have decided that
women cannot vote in that country.
There is a shortage OF daugnters
among the royakfamilies Of Europe.
Most of the conductors On the street
cars in Valparaiso, Chile, are women.
Women employed In office work in
Michigan receive an average Of $l.Sl q
day.
The average wages paid girls over 10
in Ohio is from Sc to So per week.
Bedonian women usually dress In
rags with bright colored bandanna
handkerchiefs as headgear.
Eighty per cent OF the women in he
United States over 20 years of g are
married. g..
Norwegian women can now go into
ell the professions except the priest
hood and the army
Mrs. Taft, wife OF former President
Taft, has Joined the ranks OF the anti
snffragists.
Nurses in the employ CT the Philadel-
phia board OF education are asking for
an increase in pay.
Women physicians in the London
health department must resign their
positions IL they marry.
Three queens ave received the
French legion OF honor since 1t was
instituted in 1902.
London has a woman who q detect
a spider in q room, although b does
not see It. t2 ~
Nine. Calve, the opera singer, will
shortly establish a travelling school for
the teaching Of singing.
Chorus girls are organizing q union
and already 200 OF the 1000 in New
York city have Joined.
A $1,000 drilling company has been
organized by Miss Sarah Adams, OF
Cornish, Okla.
Ten young women recently acted as
bill posters to advertise q suffrage
mass meeting In Philadelphia.
The state OF Minnesota has received
an inheritance tax of $50. 538 from the
widow of Charles G.. Gates.
Over 1900 girls have gone on o
strike In London because their EN-
ployers are hiring child labor.
Religion is taught the pupils In the
public schools Of Italy by an associa-
ton composed entirely OF women.
Nearly 1000 girls T employed as
telephone operators by the Bell Tele-
phone company In Philadelphia.
Pasadena, Cal, women have asked
city countil to pass an ordinance pro-
hibtting tobacco chewing in the street
cars. ,~ 81, &
Over 5000 boys and girls are as
sisting Mrs. Edith W. Pierce, inspector
Of streets in Philadelphia, to clean up
the city. .r#
The only commercial artist IN the
west is Miss Abigail SANFORD. OF st.
Louis. who runs a regular establish
ment IN which are employed a number
OF men and women.
A woman Is the patentee OF a. coffaa
pot In which the grounds are kent
away from the spout by a yerttcIe per-
forated partition extending to the ton.
wyoming. where women have had
h full ballot for as years, has the
smallest proportion OF unmarried wom-
en- to It's population OF any state in the
Lima Cava1ieri. the opera star. claim,
that girls should watt until they are "a
years OF before marrying, and also
that they should have only one child.
Miss Elizabeth Carey, q British
woman fancier, will have charge of the
poultry exhibit OF the British section of
Sne i've stock department at the
Mrs. Katherine Williamson and Mr.
Hattie Slothower. Of Denver, have been
appointed members of the newly
Colorado.
Five women are among the COM
uit+ee OF 80 recently appointed by Seth
Low, president of the National Civic
sssociation, to study agricultural con-
Baroness Carl Won Cxarnhausen
who recently arrived In this country
from Austria, brought with her n hI1iI
dog which is valued at $4,000 and
which wears q gold ring In its nose be-
sides having a pink necktie.
Miss Maria Baca, a wealthy New
YORK girl, braved the winter blasts In
northern Michigan to alleviate the sui
tering among the families OF the
foreign copper miners in that territory.
Mrs. w. G. Story, president OF the
Daughters OF the American Revolution
IL n OF the many women who are Oh
posed to President wilson's policy In
regard to b tolls Of the Panama
canal. ~
Mrs. Belle Van Dorm Harbert =,
Denver, and president Of the Interna-
tional Congress Of Farm Women. has
been decorated with the cross Of the
order OF Agriculture of Belgium. She
Us n first woman to be so honored.
The stork Is preparing for a visit I'd
Nine. Po1ncaire, wife OF the president
OF France. II viii be the first time In
49, AANDNNAy VI hhG EEOHCu ynAf
a president has been presented with >
child during tncumbency.
A party OF American women teach
ers wfl visit Germany this month Ia
serve as student teachers in the trade
continuation schools in Munrich. Some
OF the courses the teachers will take
are a~rt-forging, gold-smithing, copper
work, book binding, printing, ltho-
graphy, glass. painting, decorating,
cabinet making and fine mechanics.
Mrs. Nelson Bennett has Just turned
over to the Northern Pacific railroad
b complete Point Defiance tunnel al
Tacoma, Wash, which was unfinished
when her husband died In July last.
Mrs. Bennett being q woman or the
never-quft spirit took charge Of the
work where her husband left off and
superintendent the Job until it was CONF
pleted.