Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-08
ACTIVITIES OF women

Cleveland has a mounted park police-
woman.
Only SIS per cent OF the criminals
are women.
For every II men physicians there
is one woman doctor.
The majority of Japanese girls marry
at the age Of 81 years.
Women form a larger proportion OF
the educated class than men.
In Turkey husbands divorce their
wives at will n by a word.
Sixteen percent of the girls in Bos-
ton work in candy factories.
Nearly 1000 0 ome immigrants
entered the United States last year
The Women's National Life Saving
league now has a membership of 1900.
There are two women street railway
1oremen in the United States.
Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium. is
known as the mother of her people"
Over half the worker in the cotton
and silk industries are ome
Nearly $4,000 females are working
for wages in England and Wales.
Forty-four per cent of the college
degrees We're taken by women in 1910.
Pope Plus say that women will
want to be pope in a few years to
come.
Only one woman in " is doing
something quite unrelated to the home.
Women lawyers number less thar one
to 100 of men i'm the profession.
Less tina 10 per cent of the women
in the United States own property.
Women outnumber the men in eight
prominent occupations in which they
take part.
Twenty-Five letters have been
awarded to girls this ear at the Uni
Neraty of Missouri.
There are over SOC. 900 women in the
United States working with the needle
and sewing machine.
Fully three-quarters of the profess
sfonal women in the United States are
now teaching.
New York, lille those in California
only work eight hours.
The United States government has an
official bakery of which Miss Wessling
Is at the head.
Eighteen Students nave graduated
from the WOman's Medical college OF
Philadelphia this month
1t is claimed that girls should shun
cigarmaking Jobs as the fumes ruin
the health and morals.
Hindu women who have lost their
husband are not allowed to use the
front door of a house.
The rich women of China are giving
large sums to provide education for
the girls Of their country.
More than half the women in the
| United States work for pay during
some period of their lives.
OF the 300 n over gainful eccupa-
lions in the United States women have
entered all but four.
Students at the William Penn high
school for girls In Philadelphia will be
given a course in store craftsmanship.
During The past year the increase in
organized labor among women in New
York has been III per cent.
1t is estimated that 35 per cen OF
the stock of the large railroads in the
United States is owned by ONE
One-ninth of all the women in the
United States marry before the age Of
20. and one-half before they are 25.
Forty immigrant girls nave Just been
graduated from a factory school MAIN
f%acturer.
Miss Jane. better known as Aunt
Jane" Syron. has been selling news
papers in Elizabeth, N. j.. for the past
60 years.
Madame Natalie D-egontcharova, a
famous scene painter OF Moscow, Rus
STA, has started a new school Of paint
ing called Rayonnism.
Miss Ruth Meade. policewoman of
Bayonne, N. j., has issued an edictto the
effect that there must be no %spooning
in the parks"
shirts at the rate of -four an hour for
which they are paid at the rate of four
cents a dozen.
Forty-eight per cent of the graduates
of the American college for girls at
| Constantinople have entered the teach
ing profession.
Mrs. Leffler Corbitt president of
the Texa Woman's Bankers associa-
ton, is one of the ablest and most pop
ular business women in that state.
Women will be admitted on an equal
with men in the medical department of
the university OF Pennsylvania at the
opening of the next term.
Miss Gertrude M. Williams a medi-
cal student at Syracuse university, has
! been awarded a silver cup for beating
| a class Of male students at dissection.
Miss Cecil Leitch, winner Of the
ladies' golf championship. played re-
Gently in England. began to play golf
when she was 9 years OF age and has
never had a lesson.
Although she is not yet 20 years Of
| age. Mrs. Elvira GUTIERREZ is known
as the Joan Of Arc of northern Next
co, having taken part in seven battles
in the rebel nj
Miss Marguerite 10th. of Cleveland,
| Ohio. has patented a hairpin, the top
| of which is enlarged and recessed with
| spring fingers to catch in the hair when
| the pin is in place.
Miss Alice Richard, a society girl OF
New York. not desiring to lead a life
OF ease which her wealth and social
position permits, has become a trained
nurse TO work among babies in hos
pitfalls.
Out of every 100 American girls be-
tween school and marriage, so are
either assisting their mother in their
w homes, making homes for their
relatives or working for wages under
some other home maker.
According to DIR. Louis Brocq, the
fast deteriorating physically owing to
their eXa ggerated efforts which fhnx