Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-09-02
ACTIVITIES Of women

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British factories employ over 2O0.-
900 women
Jane Adams mothers thousands Of
slum children.
O%ne-third Of the clerks in the Uni
ted States are women
Women in New Work are not all
lowed to work after 10 y. m.
There are only $3.50 more men than
women in New York state.
Great Britain has 20 women paper-
hangers and four bricklayers.
There are over $4,000 women chauf-
feurs in the United States.
Only 1875 per cent of the m in
the United States are unmarried.
over 5000 women received in
struction in German universities last
year.
The tobacco factories of his coun-
try employ 9O,619 women M children.
The aVerage wages earned by women
throughout Great Britain is $1.75 per
week.
The daily hours of work for women
laundry workers is unlimited in Is
states.
Women workers in birmingham,
England, must sew 3S4 hooks and eyes
on a card to earn a cent.
New York state has 41,633 women
teachers in it's elementary and Sec
ondary schools.
Nearly 100000 women and children
are employed in the cotton mills in the
United States.
In Philadelphia Il baby is born on an
average of every II minutes during the
day and 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 iii hour
out 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
land 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 $11 a
week in New York city making flowers
of satin and velvet ribbon.
The first Greek theater In the United
States was built by katherine Tingley
at Point Iona. Cal.
There are over 800. 900 women in
Great Britain earning less than SO for
a full weeks work.
The first female %aeronaut was
Madame Tibe, who made an ascension
In a balloon at Lyons. France, in
1874.
India has s,412,642 girls under the
age of 16 who are wives n 3O2, 425
under the age of six who are married.
Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the
late j. Pierpont Morgan. made her first
aeroplane fight recently in Paris.
Eighteen-year-old Nellie Gilbert is
the only girl mail rider in Arkansas
and makes a 25-mile-trip three times
a week.
Mrs. A. r. Jacques runs a 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
only woman police judge in the United
States.
Madame Pavlowa. the Russian dam
Ger. is Offering 81. 500 in prizes for three
new dances which she will introduce
next season.
On the ground that they would be
unable to handle disorderly persons,
women are refused licenses to operate
taxicabs in London.
Mrs. Cecilia Bruno has been elected
treasurer of the schoo 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
Is per cent on the income of American
r1rs. Cornelius G%iddings, Of st. Louis,
has been engaged as directories Of
lunches in the Pittsburgh public
schools at an annual salary Of $4,000.
Over 100000 women are now engaged
in gainful occupation in the United
States. which is owe 10 per cen of
h 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.
w. TnNanfIv nn06o hoV 0Qfh trim oornCo
n Atlantic ocean n incidentally
celebrated her 98th birthday on board
the ship.
The Duchess of Marlborough, for
merly Consuelo Vanderbilt. claims that
the only way to effect economic re-
forms is to establish home hotels for
working girls.
New South Wales is considering the
a~dvisabiltty 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-
tons 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
shopkeepers. Lady Decies (motherin-
law Of George Gould's daughter) is
marketing q 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. IL 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 u. Banta. of Elizahefh NJ