The Washington herald., 1914-03-31

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Interesting Jottings Concerning the
Doings of the Feminine Sex
the World over.
Kansas has nearly 5000 rural teachers.
Roumanian women can practice as
doctors or lawyers.
Ireland has ss2.7s5 females engaged in
farm work.
The German postal department employs
$4,000 women.
Crown Princess Marie, Of Roumania. is
writer of poetry.
Women street cleaners in Munich re-
ceive 70 cents per day.
Women are no longer allowed to carry
the war canteen in France.
Mary Garden. the opera singer. has in
vented an orange colored wig.
The Duchess Of Marlborough is credit
ed with having the best chef in Eng
land.
Mrs. Vernon Castle will build 100000
dance hall al New Rochelle. n. Y.
Girls employed in the offices and large
union.
Nearly one-half of the shareholders in
the United States Steel Corporation are
women,
Philadelphia has more than 1900 women
holding membership in federated women's
clubs.
London tailOrs refuse 10 employ women
because they claim they talk too much.
DIR. Annie S. Daniel has been doctoring
the poor in New York City for thirty
five years.
Miss Gencvieve Clark. daughter Of
Speaker Clark. OF the House Champ
Clark. trims her own hats.
The majority of women farmers are
widows who were left farms by their
deceased husbands.
Mrs. r. r. JamisOn has been appointed
a judge in the JuvcIine Court of Calgary.
Canada.
The New York Assembly by a poll of
los to voted to allow women TO act as
watchers at the polls.
English suffragists are to have their
own churches. where even the preachers
will be women.
Mrs RebecCa l. Finch. OF Guthrie,
Okla. is a candidate for Commissioner
Of Charities in that State.
The only woman to cast vote in Au-
rora. Ill, city Of 1000. was Miss Edith
Scott.
The 100 women school teachers in
Cleveland are considering the formation
OF a teachers labor union.
Ethel Mnrgenthau. daughter Of Ambas-
sador Morgcnthsu. is teaching English TO
the girls in ConstantinOple.
Thirty-six per cent Of the stockholders
in the Northern Pacific Railroad are
women.
The latest idea among English women
is the posing for photographs while lying
in bed.
Several French women have formed
a court Of honor and have adopted rules
on the lines Of the Tribunal Of Honor for
men.
Nearly S0O women own stock in the
United States Express Company. which
has decided to quit business and divide
their assets.
Helen Ring Robinson. the only woman
Senator in the United States, will begin
a campaign to rid Colorado of the divorce
evil
Mrs. Minnie cJohnson-Grinstead. of Lib
erty, Kas. has announced her candi-
dacy for United States Senator to sue
ceed Joseph l.. Bristow.
Mrs. II. b. Hillman. of Wilkes-Barre
Penn. who has just celebrated her 1O2d
birthday. can recall events in her life
dating back ninety years.
Several women are employed on a beet
sugar farm near Norfolk. Va. who wear
trousers while they are doing the trying
work OF pulling the beets.
England received over a 100000 in
taxes from the vast estate left by Mrs.
Elizabeth Easton. who died recently in
Yorkshire at the age of ninety-fivc.
Mile. Marie Galticr. one Of the most
talented feminine members of the French
bar. has been made inspectress general
to the minister of interior in France.
One of the few women lawyers in New
Jersey is Miss Sadie a Pasternack. of
Passaic. who has just received notifica-
ton that she passed the examination sue
cessfully.