The Washington herald., 1914-01-04
THE ACTIVITIES OF I
PROGRESSIVE WOMEN
Interesting lettings Ceaesrnias tA'
Deiass Of he Feminine SEX

Interesting lettings Ceaesrnias tAe
Dei.ss Of he Feminine SEX
he World Over.
~ wINiFRED SHORT.
Iowa now has women factory inspec-
tors
Toronto, Canada, has housewives
league.
School teachers In Italy receive less
than $500 year salary.
Miss Elizabeth Knopf. of New York.
will have q church Of her own.
The average pay OF school teachers In
Missouri is sy7 month.
Women employees of the Government
4 Printip< Office will have rest rooms
Over 900 nurses are employed In the
Moscow Hospital. the largest In Europe.
The mills of Belfast, ireland, employ
nearly 10000 women workers
women's colleges in the United States
are better equipped than those for men.
Miss Elspeth McClelland is one Of the
most successful architects in England.
Women are prohibited from working at
nights in Massachusetts,. Nebraska, and
| Indiana
Jersey City will probably be the first
| tors.
The New York Probation Society is
urging the appointment OF women as
| poiicewomen.
By a city ordinance in Cincinnati baby
carriages are required to carry lights
The membership Of the Philadelphia
Fencers' Club is nearly dominated by
women.
According to the latest statistics there
are 100000 French families without chill
dren.
Berlin has a store where the pictures
of women who wish to become brides are
displayed.
OF the 5,5.ssO people employed in the
manufacturing industries or New Jersey.
o,5i2 are women.
| jacksonville, Fla, has received a proper
water supply due to the efforts Of the
women in that city.
England has elghty-six women plumb
ers, 81 women blacksmiths. and nifty
six female carpenters and fourteen
| women masons.
| Miss Maude o. Minehan. of New York
City, has been declared the most beauti-
full girl in Wellesley College.
The women OF Ontario. Canada, have
combined their efforts to secure the
ballot for married women.
| Mrs. David A. Ames, of Eugene, Oreg..
has the distinction OF having three hus-
bands In three months
Nm. Nazamove. the Russian actress.
| has never worn a corset because she
does not believe in torturing herself.
| Washington public schools are teaching
| girl pupils how to keep a father. mother
and three children on 50 a week.
| Granny Scott. who died recently in
England at the age of 1oi years, had
smoked a pipe for nearly 100 years.
During the first SIX months of the fiscal
year 75l japanese arrived in British Co
lumbia, of which 2S9 were women.
Ten thousand : Dmen engaged in the
| manufacture of children's garments in
New York ave issued a strike ulti-
matum.
Allowing for losses in slack season,
three-quarters of the women workers in
New York City receive less than 500 a
year.
NESS Christie Holmberg has been elected
clerk in Santa Barbara. Cal. by an over
whelming majority over her male op-
| ponent
The New York Housewives League has
| engaged several women to act as in
spector: in their crusade against cold
storags food.
The extensive Allen Dyeing Works in
Philadelphia is conducted by Miss Kath-
crime r. Allen. daughter Of the founder
| of the business.
Miss Clara s. Butler. of Cleveland, Ohio.
ha- invented and patented a device which
eliminates the harsh metallic sounds in a
phonograph.
The New York board of aldermen have
refused to pass q bill that provided pay
\ ment of so cents a day to the wives of
men serving terms in the workhouse.
| Mrs. Thomas ]. Emery. the noted
philanthropist and art collector Of Gin
cinnati, has purchased Titian's famous
painting, Philip ii, for $4,000.
According to a prominent New York
theatrical manager IS per cent of his
matinee audience Is feminine and 20 per
cent Of the night audience is the same.
Born a slave, Mrs. Amanda johnson,
Of Albany, Greg, not only has enjoyed
freedom for sixty years, but on her
eightieth birthday became a duly quail
flied voter.
Mrs. Grace A. Leathe owns more st.
Louis real estate than any other woman
In that city, but had to borrow 800 900
recently as she claims she is land poor.
| Every woman in Central Park, New
York. whose salary did not exceed 50 a
cay received IS gold piece from Mrs
Russell Sage as Christmas present.