The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-09-03
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN

maker.
British factories employ over 200,-
600 women.
Jane Adams mothers thousands Of
slum children
One-third of the clerks in the Uni
ted States are women.
Women in New Work are not al
lowed to work after 10 D. m.
There are only $3.50 more men than
nm ! n New York state.
Great Britain has 70 women paper
hangers and -four bricklayers.
There are over $4,000 women chauf-
seurs in he United States.
Only 1875 per cent Of the women In
the United States are unmarried.
Over 5000 women received in
struction In German universities last
year.
The tobacco factories Of this coun-
Try employ 9O,619 women and children.
The average wages earned by women
throughout Great Britain is Sits per
week.
The daily hours Of work for women
laundry worker Is unlimited in 10
states.
Women workers in Birmingham,
England. must sew 1884 hooks and eyes
on a a to earn a cent.
New York state has Al, 633 women
teachers In Its elementary and Sec
ondary schools.
Nearly 100000 women and children
ire employed in the cotton mills In the
United States.
In Philadelphia a baby is born on an
average of every IL minutes during the
day n night.
In jam, confectionery and tin box
factories of Great Britain many women
earn only $3.50 per week.
Nurses in the st. Louis hospitals are
only required to be on duty nine hours
tut of "a.
The chair Of biblical literature at
Vassar college is held by Miss Eva
Olive butcher, Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
In the event Of a civil war in Ire
and the homes will be protected by
An armed corps Of women
The average pay Of all the women
school teachers in the United States Is
}51.51 per month.
Girls can earn as much as s11 a
week in New York city making flowers
# satin and velvet ribbon.
The first Greek theater in the United
5tates was built by Katherine Tingley
at Point Iona, Cal.
There are over 100000 women in
Great Britain earning less han SO for
full weeks work..
The first female was
Madame Tibe, who made an ascension
an q balloon at Lyons. France, in
India has s.412,e42 girls under the
age Of 16 who are wives and 1902, 425
under the age of six who are married.
Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the
late j. Pierpont Morgan, made her first
~leroplane flight recently in Paris.
Eighteen-year-old Nellie Gilbert is
the only girl mail rider in Arkansas
and makes a 25-mile-trip three times
r week.
Mrs. A. R. Jacques runs q. 5oo-acre
farm in Gray county, Kansas, from
which she harvested 10000 bushels Of
| wheat this year.
Miss Media Jaeger, recently appointed
to the bench in Tacoma, Wash, is the
States.
Madame Pavlowa, the Russian dan
Ger, is offering 81, 800 in prizes for three
new dances which she will introduce
next season.
On the ground that they would be
lnable to handle disorderly persons,
women are refused licenses to operate
taxicabs in London
Mrs. Cecilia Bruno has been elected
treasurer Of the school board Of Hazel
ton, Pa, and will receive 2 per cent Of
all moneys paid out.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress which imposes an extra tax of
rs per cent on the income of American
women who marry titled foreigners.
Mrs. Cornelius Giddingss of St. Louis.
lunches in the Pittsburgh public
schools at an annual salary Of 81, 500.
Over 5000, 900 women are now engaged
in gainful occupation in the United
States, which is over Is per cent Of
the female population.
Miss Katherine Kurth. of Philadel-
phia, has offered to sell all or part Of
her beautiful hair to start a fund for a
home for lonely girls.
Mrs. S. P. Wescott. Of Pelham, N.
z, recently made her sSth trip across
the Atlantic ocean n incidentally
celebrated her 9sth birthday on board
| the ship.
The Duchess Of Marlborough, for
merly Consuelo Vanderbilt, claims hat
the only way to effect economic re-
| forms is to establish home hotels for
working girls.
New South Wales is considering the
a~dvisability Of removing the sex dis
ability for representative institutions,
including parliament and municipal
councils.
Commissioner of Labor Lynch, of
New York, has changed his mind about
| excluding women from holding posi-
lions in the new state bureau Of en-
ployment and has ordered that they be
allowed to take the examinations.
Several English women Of title are
l SilSphCCpOAS Noo OSS1SS \lllolllC IL
law of George Gould's daughter) Is
marketing a patent medicine for in
fluenza, and Lady Sackville special
ICES in artistic lamp shades.
The medal of the American School
| Peace league has been awarded to Mrs.
| KATRINA Trask, of Saratoga, N. Y,
whose book is a most stirring appeal
! for world peace.
A bill before the Hungarian diet
which, If it becomes a law, will compel
the women Of that country to render
military service in time Of war else
where than on the battlefield.
Miss Alice F. Banta, Of Elizabeth, N.
j., is at present acting as a physician
| for a big mining company at Nome.
Alaska, out will, in the fall. return to
| Los Angeles, where she has a lucrative
| practice.
Miss Christina Mullaney, Of New
York, has patented an emergency COW
ering for hats. made of waterproof pa
per that can be secured to the hat by
the customary hat pins.
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