Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-03-12
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Interesting Jottinas Concerning the
Doinas Of tho Feminine Sex the
World Over.

Interesting Jottings Concerning the
Doinas of the Feminine Sex the
World over.
Paris has a Mininettes newspaper.
New York has q woman night watch
man.
Women are now considered just al
able as men.
A woman can exist on slightly less
Girls are used in Germany as cad-
dies by the golfers.
Denver women are asking that they
De drawn as grand jurors.
Pittsburgh club women are asking
for a woman police chief.
III women in Indiana propose to
establish an opera company.
There are over $780, 900 telephone girls
In the United States.
Maine is the latest state to grant
pensions to widows.
Mrs. M. H. Cole is president of a
real estate firm in New York city.
Mary CARMEL, of Philadelphia, is dean
of the woman photographers in the
United States.
New York city has owe 100000 girls
n women studying home making.
Mrs. Eugene L. Senseney is assistant
prosecuting attorney in st. Louis.
Marriages have increased 10 per cent
during the last six months.
There are over 1000, 900 female
breadwinners in the United States.
Probably 100000 of the women in
the United States are illiterate.
Miss Ann Forsyth has accepted the
position Of policewoman in Aurora, Ill.
More h a 10000 women have asked
for widows pensions in Pennsylvania.
Denver school girls have voted to
limit the cost of their dresses to So.
III lry ~ r{l@-,p -~~~J>~
fund bureau Is entirely managed by
women.
New York a over 10000 girls who
are walking the streets looking for
work.
Bombay, India, has 11s municipal
franchise.
Columbia university is giving de-
grees to students proficient in laundry
and houseWerk.
Madame Louise Edvina, the prina
donna, says that o should come be-
fore eugenics. :
Three-fourths of the women workers
in New York city receive less than
$500 a year. O.
A sister Of General Villa, the Next
can rebel leader, attends school in q
Nebraska city. :
woman graduates Of the University Of
Wisconsin are teachers.
Mrs. Isabella Burns, Of Reading, Pa.
has applied to the courts for her natur-
alization papers. F.
The majority OF women workers in
the paper box industry In New York
are earning less than $3.50 a week.
The German postal department en-
ploys over 5000 girls whose wages
range from $3.50 to $3.50 a month.
Three-fourths Of the audiences at all
theatrical performances in this coun-
try are women.
Mrs. Catherine Eisenhart, a police
woman, is instructing the San Fran
cisco police how to tango.
At the present time 113 women have
the right to wear the coveted red rib
bon Of the French Legion Of Honor.
Paris women are defying the police
in that city by wearing their hatpins
unprotected as provided by law.
The French senate is considering the
passage Of a bill that will make mar
riage much easier in that country.
Mile. Helene Miropolsky, a member
cate themselves for diplomatic posi-
lions.
Frieda Hempel, the opera singer, has
received first prize at the Berlin food
show with her potato salad recipe.
The South Carolina legislature has
voted unanimously against the pro-
posal to grant school suffrage to
In all German cities with over $4,000
population there are only 66 women
medical doctors and only 80 women
dentists.
Miss Catherine L. Grady, Of wash
fngton, is wholly blind but a be-
come proficient as operator Of a type
setting machine.
over $500 young women are attend
ing universities in Germany this year,
being five times as large as it was foul
years ago.
Washing their mouths with soap and
water is the punishment melted out to
disobedient girls in the New Jersey
State Home for Girls. F.
Mrs. C. NJ. Corkle and Mrs. Tenn
pie Gibson, of Prentiss county, Mis-
sissippi, earns over $4,000 a ear by
raising chrysanthemums.
Despite the fact that she is 80 years
of age, Mrs. Helen A. Hager, of Hack
ettstown, N. j., recently went coast
ing with the children.
Miss Marie Tompkins. a woman Of
unusual strength, Is in charge Of the
detective squad in a Philadelphia de-
partment store.
Mrs. John w. Gates, widow Of the
oil magnate of that name, recently
cleared up over 81, 900, 900 on the rise in
oil stock in Texas.
Miss Mary Best, OF Barber county,
Kansas, is the best known farmer in
that state, where she runs a large farm
on scientific principles.
Minnesota has over 100 community
clubs composed Of women whose OBJ
ject is to establish better living condi-
tons for the women on farms.
Mrs. Henrietta N. Smith. widow of
the late Charles Emory Smith, who was
at one time postmaster general and
ambassador to Russia, is to become a
nun.
Among the II who qualified for the
posftton of assistant dentist I'm the
bureau Of health Of Philadelphia was
one woman who was second OF the list.
Mrs. Katherine Warham, who is
| bringing suit against a London store.
! acted as her own lawyer recently n
| made a nine-hour speech in her appeal
| for a new trial.
In the. past two years 957 women
have successfully passed civil service
examinations in Philadelphia, and out
of this number 2S7 received appoint