The Washington herald., 1914-04-11
ACTIVITIES OF
WOMEN
Tokyo has 5,oAsO Geisha girls.
ny wINIFRED SHORT.

Tokyo has 5,oAso Geisha girls.
Great Britain has over 100 female ply
sicians.
Oklahoma has several women oil opera
tors.
Fourteen States are now claimed by
suffrage. .t. .a-
Turkish women are becoming more
civilized every day. =.
New York City has over 2.op women
school-teachers. --4 --,-'-
King Alfonso. OF Spain, has Joined the
feminist ranks.
Women control IS per cent of the Penn
sylvania Railroad stock.
Mile Paviowa, the dancer. has her
feet insured for 100000 q
horticultural College in London is being
crippled by matrimony.
Lady Bertha Dawkins acts as an un-
derstudy to Queen Mary. Of England.
Mrs Lucille /. Ferlet owns and man.
ages a 1.O0O-acre ranch in Texas.
| Women are fast replacing men as head
OF the schools in Pennsylvania.
Germany has sixty towns where women
are employed as policewomen.
Miss Ethel Peters is teaching the wom-
en- prisoners in New York to sew.
Barnard College has received a gift Of
$4,000 from Mrs. E. II. Hartman.
Miss Theodore Pope is known as the
millionaire architect in New York City.
Mrs. Norman Hapgood has been elected
head of the Stage Society of New York.
New York has more bachelor girls than
any other city in the United States.
Miss Isabelle Caruthers. of Chicago.
is the only woman baiIiff in the country.
Women civil service clerks in Cali
fornia receive equal pay with the men.
Under woman suffrage in Australia
hundreds of improvements have been
made IN laws.
More than thirty women have lost
their lives in the suffrage campaign in
England.
Female clerks in the British postal
service only receive half as much pay as
the male clerks.
English society women plan to open tea
shops at several of the continental he
sorts.
arts degrees awarded in 1910 went to
women.
Miss Fay Kellogg the New York archi-
tect. has an income of over $4,000 a
year.
A league for combating woman's eman-
cipation just formed in Germany has
5000 members.
Miss Katherine r. Davis. commissioner
OF corrections in New York City. is a |
baseball fan.
Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer,, sUs
ciety leader of Philadelphia. has invented |
a new card game.
Recent statistics show that there are |
only four countries that do not show a !
decrease of births.
Miss Bertha Ruffner. of New Orleans, |
started and heads a bureau for planning |
holidays and travel.
Mrs Agnes Hovenor Timme. owner OF
the Milwaukee baseball club, is studying |
for grand opera.
Mrs A o. Price. of Morgantown, w. |
Va, is to have 80 square inches of skin |
grated on her.
Female workers in Arkansas must bu |
supplied with chairs to sit on when not |
actually engaged in work.
Twenty per cent OF the female appli- |
cants who took civil service examinations
for government positions were appointed. !
II is claimed that half of the gambling |
dens in London are kept in fiourishing
condition by the patronage Of women.
Seventeen-year-o Sarah Brody, Of
Philadelphia. recently won a speed con-
test in typewriting, having attained the
speed OF seventy-seven words a minute.
Miss Cora Foy. of Los Angeles. Cal, is
the director of the Women's Orchestra,
the only organization of its kind in the |
United States.