The Washington herald., 1914-05-12
ACTIVITIES OF
WOMEN
By wIN1FRED SHORT.

NONxIN i
By wMIFRED SHORT.
New York City has nearly 10000 shop
girls.
Women donate the municipal AFFAIRS in
Tyro, Kans.
Boarding schools for girls have been
established in Korea
Germany employs many women a. spies
in the war department.
The eueenic marriage law has been
defeated by the Massachusetts, lesisla-
ture.
New York thesters employ over thou
sand women who are members Of trade
unions
- Over Loo women in New York have
pledged themselves as being against suf-
frage. Ia
=! The average wages paid women em-
ployed in the clothing industry In Aus
tralia is s1o.l4 week.
Women trade unionists increased s6 per
cent In New York City during the past
year.
The average woman who stays in the
city until summer buys six or seven hats
a season
The average wages paid to female
workers in Nuremberg, Germany. is so
cents per day. S-
Of hav
fed their intention of becoming war
nurses If they are needed.
Nearly 1000 women were cared for
by the police matrons in Philadelphia
during the past year.
Women physicians are required on the
boards of hospitals and asylums in most
of the Western States.
Several British statesmen have given
their support to the movement to admit
women to the practice of law.
In England and the United States IT
is estimated that there are over 100000
women trained nurses.
The London Board Of Trade employs
a woman investigator for women's in
dustries at salary of s2,5oo year.
The five women tire-inspectors In New
York City have proven to be Of great
service to the Fire Commissioner.
Miss Mary Donnelly, Of New York
City, will organize a commissary corps
to accompany the troops to Mexico.
Mrs. N. d. Brayton, of Mimi. Ariz.,
is organizing company Of rihewomen
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leo.
During the last eight years the cham
pion typewriters of the world have been
three women and one man. -.-
F Ex-oueen Amelia. of Portugal has
written a book bof her reminiscsnces
which has been prohibited In her own
country.
Eleven-year-old Charlotte Nash, of
Oregon City. 'Oreg., is the champion
speller of that place. having defeated her
twenty-eight other contestants.
Miss Kitty Marion. an English suf- |
fragette, has been forcibly fed 232 times |
since she was first put in JAN for
militancy. |
Red Cross nurses receive a salary of |
$50 a month when on duty In the United |
States. and $50 when outside of the limits |
of the United States.
Miss Alice Purinton, employed In the |
Patent Office at Washington. passes on |
all the patents on toys, seeing that they
are not dangerous in any way.
Mrs. Clarence lie Bus. of Lexington,
KY, is contemplating the purchase of |
racing stable which may eventually be
the nucleus Of very important breeding |
establishment.
Miss Ruth McArdle has been appointed
a policewoman in Bayonne n J., but the I
mayor did not know he was appointing
a woman as her name was given to him
as r. McArdle.
Mrs. o. H. Havermeyer, Mrs. Willard
p Straight, and other well known New
York women have formed the Music
League of America, the object of which
is to help and furnish assistance tod
worthy musical artists
Mrs. Emily Beach, of New York City,
is said to have broken over loo horses in
her time and to have educated her or
phaned daughter by riding plooded
horses in the horse shows and teaching
the daughters OF the rich how to ride
For the first time in Scotland a female
minister has officiated at a wedding. She
is the Rev. Olive May Winchester an
American girl, who wac educated in this
country and went to Scotland five years
ago to assist in the work of the Pente-
costai Church.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
President Wilson. is to be one of the
editors of the new magazine to come out
In June for promoting the use of public
school houses as centers of cooperative
enterprises and recreation, forums of
common counsel. and as public polling
places.
1t has Just become known that ALBERT
Cashier" an inmate of the Soldiers
Home at Quincy. H., has been mas
ouerading as a man for sixty years, her
sex becoming known while she was under
the care of a surgeon. She served as a I
soldier in Gen. Grants army during the |
civil war.
ADDRESSED TO WOMEN !.