Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-05-14

By WlNlFRED SHORT.
New York City has nearly 100000
shop girls.
Women dominate the municipal af.
fairs of Tyro, Kan.
Boarding schools for girls have
been established in Korea.
Rome is to have home for English
women in the near future.
New York State has 1882 women
members of labor unions.
Miss Ruth Hoyt has been made pc.
lice chief at Wellesley College.
Over 5000 women clerks are EN-
ployed in the British postal service.
Eleanor Duse, the well-known ac'
tress, is to retire at the age of SO
years.
Women workers in New York State
must be allowed one hour day for
lunch.
The eugenic marriage law has been
defeated by the Massachusetts, Legis.
lature.
New York theatres employ over
thousand women who are members OF
trade unions.
over 1000 women in New York
have pledged themselves as being
against suffrage.
The average wages paid women EN-
ployed in the clothing industry in
Australia is Sl014 a week.
Women trade unionists increased
90 per cent in New York City during
the past year. =.
The average woman who STAYS in
the. city until summer buys six or
seven hats a season.
The average wages paid to female
workers in Nuremburg, Germany, Is
SOC per day.
Miss Jessie Gillette has been elect
ed president of the First National
Bank of Lincoln, Ill.
| Women's colleges in the United
States are said to be betted equipped
than the colleges of men.
! During the last eight years the
champion typewriters of the world
have been three women and one man
Scores of women have already sig
nifed their intention of becoming war
nurses If they are needed.
Nearly 10000 women were cared for
by the police matrons of Philadelphia
during the past year.
/ Women physicians are required on
! the boards of hospitals and asylums
in most of the Western States.
! Several British statesmen have
! given their support to the movement
| to admit women to the practice OF
| law.
In England and the United States
! IL is estimated that there are over
! 200, 900 women trained nurses.
The London Board of Trade EN-
nlovs woman investigator for
women's industries at a salary of 81
500 a year.
The five women fire inspectors in
New York City have proven to be OF
great service to the fire commissioner
Miss Mary Donnelley of New YORK
! City will organize a commissary corps
TO accompany the troops to Mexico
Mrs. n. d. Brayton of Mimi, Arlz''
Is organizing a company of rifle
women for enlistment in the cam
paign in Mexico. o,
Eleven.vear-old Charlotte Nash Of
| Oregon City, Ore, is the champion
| speller of that place, having ueleateu
the twenty-eight other contestants
Miss Kitty Marion, an English SUI
fragette, has been forcibly red 2Zz
times since she was first put In jail
! for militancy.
Red Cross nurses receive a salary
Of $50 a month when on duty in the
United States and $50 when outside
of the limits of the United States.
Miss Allie Purinton, employed IN
the Patent Office at Washington,
passes on all the patents on toys soc
ing that they are not dangerous IN
any way.
Under the will of the late b. f.
Keith, the vaudeville king, his widow
is to receive 100000 outright and an
addition 100000 if she remarries'
Chinese girl, graduate OF
Wellesley College, will be at the mead
of a college to be opened IN that
country by the American institution