The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-05-14
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
interesting Jottinss Concerning the
Doings of tho Feminine Sex tho
World Over.

tTeSS IN the WOrlQ. - He
Queen Mary, Of England, is an ex-
pert judge Of laces.
The New York university has just
graduated SO women as lawyers.
Clubs for rvant 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.
Women employed in office work in
Michigan receive an average of $1.S1 a
day.
The average wages paid girls over is
in Ohio is from Sc to IS per week.
Bedonian women usually dress in
rags with bright colored bandanna
handkerchiefs as h~eadgear.
Eighty per cent of the women in the
United States over 20 years Of age are
married.
Norwegian women can nov go into
all the professions except the priest
hood 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-
pfia board of education are asking for
an increase in pay.
Women physicians in the London
health department must resign their
positions if they marry.
Three queens have received the
French legion of honor since 1t was
instituted in 1902.
London has a woman who can detect
not see it.
Nine. Calve. the opera singer, will
shortly establish a travelling schoo for
the teaching of singing.
Chorus girls are organizing a union
and already 200 of the 1900 in New
York city have Joined.
A $4,000 drilling company has been
organized by Miss Saran Adams, of
Cornish, Okla.
Ten young women recently acted as
OH posters to advertise a suffrage
mass meeting in Philadelphia.
Tne state of Minnesota has received
an inheritance tax of $50, 53s from the
widow OF Charles G. Gates.
Over $1,000 girls have gone on a
ployers are hiring child labor.
Religion is taught the pupils in the
pubic schools of Italy by an associa-
tlon composed entirely Of women.
Nearly 1000 girls are employed as
operators by the Bell Tele-
phone company in Philadelphia.
Pasadena, Cal, women have aakea
city countil to pass an ordinance pro-
aloltlng tobacco chewing in the street
cars. eo'
Over 5000 boys and girls are a.
AAS iS'All1l " FIERCE. lnSnactNr
or streets in Philadelphia, to clean IN
the city. n up
The only commercial artist in the
west is Miss Abigail SANFORD. Of ST
LOUIS, VINO runs a regular establish
ment in which are EMPLOYED a n,,y,ba,
or men and women. 49,
= woman IS the patentee Of a. coffee
pol IN which the grounds are kent
away from the spout by a verticle ner.
AoI auon partltion extending to the top.
n fun ballot for As years, has tha
smallest proportion of unmarried yon,e
union. $3.50 ~ .ne
Lima Cavalier. the opera star, claim,
that girls should wait until thew ara hs
years of age before marrying. and e,sa
that they should have only one child
Miss Elizabeth Carey, a Brifisb
woman fancier, will have charge of tba
poultry exhibit Of the British section OF
Panama exposition. ue
MIS-. catherine Williamson and Mrs
Hattie Slothower, of Denver, have beer
appointed members of the newIv
created Woman's wage commission In
Five women are among the com
mlttee of 80 recently appointed bv Satb
Low, president of the National Civic
association, to study AGRICULTURAL Gov
uitions In the United States.
Baroness Carl Won Czarmhausen
who recently arrived in this conntrx,
from Austria, brought with her a h,,HH
Jog which Is valued at $4,000 and
which wears a gold ring in its nose he
SIDES having a pink necktie.
MISS Maria Baca, a wealthy New
lorh girl, prayed the winter blasts in
northern Michigan to alleviate the s,,f-
Iering among the families OF the
foreign copper miners in that territorv
MRS. w. e. Story, president Of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
IS one OF the many women who are OBJ
posed to President Wilson's policy in
regard to the tolls of the Panama
canal.
Mrs. Belle Van Dorm Harbert ~
Denver, and president Of the Interna-
tional Congress of Farm Women, has
been decorated with the cross of the
Order of Agriculture Of Belgium. She
vs. the first woman to be SO honored.
The stork is preparing for a visit ia
Nine. P~oincaire, wife Of the president
OF France. It will be the first time in
the history OF the French republic that
a president a been presented with 3
child during incumbency.
n party OF American women teach
ers vail visit Germany thi month "a
serve as student teachers in the trade
schools In Munrich. Some
are a~rt-forging, gold-smithing, copper
work. book binding, printing. litho-
graphy, glass painting, decorating
cabinet making and fine mechanics.
Mrs. Nelson Bennett has Just turned
over to h Northern Pacific railroad
the complete Point Defiance tunnel at
Tacoma, Wash, which was Unfinished
when her husband died in July last
Mrs. Bennett being a woman of the
ne~ver-quit spirit took charge Of the
work where her husband left OFF and
superintended he job until it was COM
pleted.
THOUGHT GEMS