The Washington herald., 1914-04-27
OF
WOMEN
By wINIFRED SHORT.

Queen Mary Of England is an expert
judge OF laces.
Lolita NJ. Crabtree is the richest ac-
tress in the world.
The New York University has just
graduated thirty-siX women as lawyers.
Clubs for servants will be organized
by influential women in New York.
The French courts have decided that
women cannot vote in that country.
There is a shortage of daughters among
the royal families OF Europe.
Most of the conductors on the street
cars in Valparaiso. Chile, are women.
Bedonian women usually dress in rags
with bright-colored bandanna handker-
chiefs as headgear.
Eighty per cent Of the women in the
United States over twenty years Of age
are married
Norwegian women can now go into all
the professions except the priesthood and
the army.
Mrs. Taft, wife Of former President
Taft. has Joined the ranks Of the anti
suffragists.
Nurses in the employ of the Philadel-
phia board OF education are asking for
an increase in pay.
Women physicians in the London
health department must resign their po-
sitions il they marry.
Three Queens have received the French
Legion Of Honor since it was instituted
in 1S02
London has a woman who can detect
spider in a room, although she does
not see It.
Nine. Calve. the opera singer will short
ly establish a travelling school for the
teaching Of singing.
Chorus girls are organizing a union
and already 800 OF the 1.50o in New York
have Joined.
A 10000 drilling company has been
organized by Miss Sarah Adams. Of Cor
nish. Okla.
Ten young women recently acted as bill
posters to advertise a suffrage mass
meeting in Philadelphia.
The State OF Minnesota has received an
Inheritance tax OF ss2.53s from the widow
OF Charles G. Gates.
Over 1850 girls have gone on a strike
in London because their employers are
hiring child labor.
Religion is taught the pupils in the pub
lie schools OF Italy by an association
composed entirely Of women.
Nearly 1000 girls are employed as
telephone operators by the Bell Tele-
phone Company in Philadelphia
Pasadena. Cal, women have asked city
council to pass an ordinance prohibiting
tobacco chewing In the street cars.
The only commercial artist IN the West
IL Miss Abigail SANFORD. Of st. Louis,
who runs a regular establishment in
which are employed number of men
and women.
Wyoming, where women have had the
full ballot for forty-five years, has the
smallest proportion Of unmarried women
to its population of any State in the
Union.
Lima Cavalieri, the opera star. claims
that girls should wait until they are
forty-four years Of age before marrying.
and also that they should have only one
child
Miss Elizabeth Carey, a British wom-
an fancier. will have charge Of the poul-
try exhibit OF the British section-of the
livestock department at the Panama Ex-
position.
Mrs. Katherine Williamson and Mrs
Hattie Slothower, Of Denver, have been
appointed members Of the newly created
Woman's Minimum Wage Commission in
Colorado.
Five women are among the committee
Of thirty recently appointed by Seth Low,
president Of the National Civic Asocia-
ton, to study agricultural conditions in
the United States.
Baroness Carl Won Czarmhausen, who
| recently arrived in this country from
Austria, brought with her a bull dog
which is valued at $4,000 and which
wears gold ring in its nose besides
having pink necktie.
Miss Maria Baca, a wealthy New York
girl, braved the winter blasts in North
ern Michigan to alleviate the suffering
among the families of the foreign con-
per miners In that territory.
Mrs. W. c. Story. president sof the
Daughters Of the American Revolution,
Is one of the many women who are
opposed to President Wilson's policy in
| regard to the tolls of the Panama Canal.
A party Of American women teachers
Will visit Germany this month to serve
IS student teachers in the trade contin-
uation schools in Munich. Some of the
courses the teachers will take are art
forging. gold-smithing, copper work.
hooEoinding, printing. TYPOGRAPHY, glass
painting, decorating. cabinet making and
fine mechanics.
Mrs. Nelson Bennett has Just turned
| over to the Northern Pacific Railroad
the completed Point Defiance Tunnel an
Tacoma, Wash. which was unfinished
when her husband died in July last. Mrs.
Bennett being a woman of the never-quit
spirit took charge of the work where
her husband left Off and superintended
the job until 1t was completed.