The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-22

Interesting Jottfngs Concerning the
Doings of the Feminine Sex
the World Over.
San Francisco has three women police
officers.
Philadelphia has a professional woman
chauffeur.
New York City now has three women
fire inspectors.
A school for servants is maintained
| in Columbia, S. c.
Margaret Deland. the novelist. is a skill
full gardner.
Berlin. Germany. has a financial daily
newspaper for women.
New York City is to have a women's
club which viii cost $4,000.
japan has 5000 girls attending the high
schools in that country.
Divorce DEGREES were granted to 50s
women In New York City last year.
London school teachers are on a strike
for minimum salary OF $500 a year.
Females outnumber the males in PhiIa-
deiphia, New York. Baltimore, and Bos-
ton.
There are not enough women physicians
graduated to take the positions open to
women.
Mrs Anna r. Vogel. OF Detroit, is the
champion woman live-bird shot OF the
world.
Mrs. Ben Lindsey. wife Of the famous
juvenile judge OF Denver, acts as her
husbands assistant.
Young women who graduated in 1912
haven't as many babies as the women
who were graduated in 1900.
Gaby Deslys. the French actress. has
10 gowns. seventy-five pairs of shoes and
slippers. and eighty-lve hats.
Miss SDtah Purser has been appointed
governor and guardian of the National
Art Gallery OF Ireland.
Over $4,000 children die annually
through the ignorance Of parents in the
knowledge Of baby hygiene.
Bills providing for the appointment Of
policewomen have been introduced in
New York. Massachusetts, and several
other States.
Although she is ninety-eight years of
age, Miss Sarah Whitmore, OF Gardner,
Mass, is conversant with five languages
Nearly 10000 women took advantage OF
their first opportunity to register as yot-
ers in Chicago recently.
Having their pet animals tattoed on
their arms, ankles, shoulders, or chests Is
the latest craze among English women.
Miss Sarah Edmond is supervising
principal Of the Crawford. y. J.. public
schools at a yearly salary Of $500
When Mrs. Alice s. Wells, pioneer po-
licewomsn of Los Angeles. goes on lee
ture tours she gives up her salary dur
ing the absence.
Miss Mary Orr is a member of the
board Of directors and acting treasurer
Of the Remington Typewriter Company.
In bringing action for divorce. Mrs.
Laura B. Porter. of Carlisle, Pa. claimed
that her husband forced her to draw a
pillow in the fields
Probably the best known business
woman in New York City is Miss A. E.
Amendt, pricate secretary to Charles
Tarbell, the oil magnate.
Miss Neva Dearborn has been appoint
in Philadelphia. a position formerly held
by a man.
Just because she refused to assist the
assessors, DIR. Anna Shaw. the suffrage
leader. had her taxes increased about
800 per cent
The big railroads of the country will
be asked to have matrons on all their
through trains to act as chaperons and
look after and care for girls and women.
One Of the most important State APP
pointive Offices in Wyoming. that of dep
uty Of the commission of public lands. !
is held by a woman, Miss Alfred Stew |
art.
Mrs. George F. Richards is the only
woman member Of the press gallery in |
Washington. She represents several
New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
newspapers.
Saleswomen in the and 10 cent stores |
of New York City receive the lowest |
average wages among saleswomen. |
Eighty-one per cent of them receive 81
weekly.
One Of the best color artists in the |
country is Miss Charlotte NJ. Pinkerton. |
who colors all the slides for Z. NJ. New |
man. the noted Traveller and lecturer.
Frau Boehm. Dresden woman, has |
invented a powder which will. IL is said, |
send the enemy to sleep when the shells |
are exploded. thereby doing away with |
any bioodshed.
Mrs. Julius s. Walsh. jr, Of st. Louis, |
Is the largest woman holder of stock in |
the United Railways Of that city. She is
the owner Of 800 shares of the preferred |
stock.
Mrs. Cornelia X. Hood. who has a large |
legal practice in New York City. was one |
OF the first three women to graduate from /
the law school of the New York Univer-
sity in 1891.
Miss Matte Tyler. granddaughter of /
President Tyler, Is making a strenuous |
fight to hold her position OF postmistress
at CORTLAND. Va. to which she was APP
pointed by President Harrison.