Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-03
ACTIVITIES OF women

Hindu women arc anxious to have
the vote.
Over nine-tenths of the women N
Wyoming vote.
The demand for nurses is increasing
rapidly.
Vienna, women have begun a crusade |
against male flirts.
The majority of japanese women |
marry at the age Of q.
The proportion of women to men u
100 to ITO in Australia.
In England a reward of $25 is paid
to women who become mothers.
Miss Kate Grant has been teaching
school for % years IN Spokane, Wash.
me Woman's Trade Union league OF
New York city has over 5000 members.
Miss Emily P. Biddle originated the
Red Cross stamps to fight tuberculosis.
some 10000 women are out of employ
ment In New York city at the present
time.
Mrs. Mabel H. Kirk has been ap-
pointed psychologist of the Essex coun-
", New Jersey courts.
wages for bar1naids in England are
no more than domestic servants de-
mand In this country.
London has a school for motoring for
Women which Is owned and managed
by women.
n nearly $4,000 female factory
workers in Michigan receive an aver
g daily wage of $1.14.
over 1900 working girls in New
YORK city are members of the National
League Women Workers.
SWISS girls are gradually forsaking
the domestic e%niployments for those Of
the office and shops.
The University club in New York
city, which is run exclusively for wo-
men, has a 1000, 600 club house.
Frau Melli Besse. Germany's only wo-
man aviator, is the only woman in the
world who cnducts a flying school,.
Madame Curie. who with her hus-
person in the world to hold two Nobel
prizes. WV o'e'
Inc Belfast Red Cross branch of the
Ulster volunteers force have 525 wo-
of age. ~ 90
Since women have beer permitted to
the Judges bench in Norway Justice
to women n girls is being more mi
formly done.
i! Is claimed that the working class
wire is a more efficient spender OF
hoCsehold accounts than her middle
class sister.
member of the PENNSYLVANIA ind,,striaI
board. is inspecting the bakeries in
that state. A'
A New York bank has opened a wo-
mems department and a suite of rooms
is paced at the disposal of their female
customers. ei"s
Bloomington. n d has a women.,
bootblack shop. where only women ian
get a shine and have it done by one of
their wv sex. - W
In the little town Of W%illesden. Rme-
!and, all the married women go out
70 work While h husbands STAY at
nome and keep house.
Less than 1900 women showed tbe,r
preference for the vote in a test con-
Quoted by a Paris newspaper at the ro-
cent election.
All the girls graduating from thu
franklin school, Of Oakland. Cal, will
oe supplied with gowns by the board of
In Switzerland women are now en-
pro hoyea IN government offices n in
the post offices, and in some instances
are raised to be postmistress.
Being of an adventures nature. Mrs.
"A. M. Brown. e wealthy Los Angeles
woman, recently sailed a sloop Yacht
from Atlantic City to Nav York.
the three largest female colleges
oo per cent OF the graduates marry, 40
per cent teach, n 10 per cent are en-.
gagged IN other occupations.
England now has IL schools wher.
women are taught gardening. poultry
ure and domestic scieace.
over 100000 silkworms will he
raised IN Napa county, California, dur
Ins the coming season, through the ac-
ciety. y
Great efforts are being made by the
girls at Wellesley college to raise the
100000 building fund and some of
them are even shining shoes to help.
DR.. Anna H. Shaw, the ~pist
teauer. mas brough suit against the Lee
nigh Valley Railroad company. for in
Juries received while alightiag from one
OF their trains.
trained scientists have no trouble IN
securing positions in government lab
orator1es OF the various cities.
Inc 11rst woman to file q petition to
oe q candidate for membership of a
STATE committee in Pennsylvania is
er. in Dorranceton.
MISS Katherine Shay, q freshman at
the University of Michigan. swings a
cay sledge for four and one-half
hours once a week in the engineering
department. where she IL studying to be
an engineer.
In divorce cases recorded in the Uni
TED States. where immortality is the
basis Of the suit. the wife is charged
with the ofense in 10000 cases as
against $4,000 charged against the hus-
band.
Before her marriage to Vincent AS
tor. Miss Helen D. Huntington re-
nounced her dover rights In the vast
Astor estate. which has been the Gus
tom in every instance when an Aston
marries.
The women's Educational union. re-
Gently founded in Cairo. Egypt, is do.
Ing much to educate the Mosiem won
pete with their more civilized sisters
OF other Countries