Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-14
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Interesting Jottinss Concerning the
Doinss Of tho Feminine Sex h
World Over.

Arabian women never show their
faces.
Utah has the lowest divorce rate in
the union.
Lolita NJ. Crabtree Is the richest ac-
tress in the world.
Queen Mary. of England, Is an ex-
pert judge of laces.
The New York university has just
graduated Sc women as lawyers.
Clubs for servanrs will be organized
by Influential women in New York.
The French courts nave decided that
women cannot vote in that country.
There is a shortage of daughters
among the royal families Of Europe.
Most of the conductors on the street
ears in Valparaiso, Chile, are
Women employed in office work in
| Michigan receive an average of $1.S1 a
day.
The average wage paid girls over Is
in Ohio is from Sc to IS per week.
Bedonian women usually dress in
rags with bright colored bandanna
handkerchiefs as headgear.
Eighty per cent of the women in the
United States over 20 years of e are
married.
Norwegian women can now go into
all the professions except the priest
hood and the army.
Mrs. Taft, wife of former President
Taft. has Joined the ranks of the anti
S~uffragists.
Nurses in the employ Of the Philadel-
phia board of education are asking for
an increase in pay.
Women physicians in the London
health department must resign their
positions If they marry.
Three queens have received the
French legion OF honor since it was
instituted in 1902.
London has a woman who can detect
a spider in a room. although she does
not see it.
Nine. calve, the opera singer, will
the teaching of singing.
chorus girls are organizing a union
and already 200 of the 1900 in New
York city have joined.
A $4,000 drilling company has been
organized by Miss Sarah Adams, Of
Cornish, Okla.
Ten young women recently acted as
Dill posters to advertise a suffrage
mass meeting in Philadelphia.
The state of Minnesota has received
an Inheritance tax of $50, 53s from the
widow Of Charles G.. Gates.
strike In London because their err-
ployers are hiring child labor.
Religion is taught the pupils in the
public schools of Italy by an associa-
ton composed entirely of women.
a1osaiiy I,ooo slrlS are employed as
telephone operators by the Bell Tele-
phone company in Philadelphia.
PASADENA. Cal. women have asked
GiIy countli TO pass an ordinance pro-
h1bttlng tobacco chewing in the street
cars. Aeoe
Over 5000 boys and girls ara %.
sisting Mrs. Edith W. Pierce, inspector
of streets in Philadelphia, to clean IN
the city. W
The only commercial artist In +ha
west is Miss Abigail SANFORD. Of St
Louis, who runs a regular establish
OF men and women.
a woman is the patentee of a coffee
pot III which the grounds are kent
away from the spout by a verticJe nerS
ioTated partition extending to the TOP.
where women have had
me iull ballot for 45 years, has the
smallest proportion of Unmarried won,o
en- 10 Its population Of any state in the
union. "o Al 'he
Lima Cavalieri, the opera star. c,e1m,
nat girls should wait until they are "a
y that ol age oeIore marrying, and also
M M; .iey Snould nave only one child.
MISS Elizabeth Carey, a British
woman fancier, will have charge Of tha
poultry exhibit of the British ]section ~
lhe u stock department at the
Panama exposition. o
MRS. katherine Williamson and Mrs
~ otOIAAoWSI, Oh denver. have bean
appointed members of the newly
created woman's wage commission 4,
Colorado. III
Five women are among the co,,-
mittee OF 80 recently appointed by Seth
Low. president Of the National Civic
ASSOCIATION ie to study agricultural con-
Baroness Carl Won Czarmha,sa,
VINO recently arrived in this country
from austria, brought with her a buil
dog which Is valued at. 500 00 and
which wears a gold ring In its nose be.
SIDES having a pink necktie.
Miss Maria Baca, a wealthy Nav
York girl. braved the winter blasts in
northern Michigan to alleviate the suf-
Ler1ng among the families Of the
torelgn copper miners in that territory.
Mrs. w. c. Story, president of the
Daughters OF the American Revolution.
IS one of the many women who are on.
posed to President Wilson'S policy in
regard to the tolls Of the Panama
canal. Aol
Mrs. Belle Van Dorm Harbert. Of
Denver, and president of, the Interna-
slonal congress of Farm Women, has
been decorated with the cross Of the
order Of Agriculture of Belgium. She
IS the first woman to be so honored.
Ihe stork is preparing for a visit ia
NINE. Polnca1re, wife of the president
OF France. 1t will be the first time in
IN AiioloAy VI tle fTenCl epuDll that
a president has been presented with a
child during incumbency.
A party of American women teach
ers Will visit Germany this month ia
serve as student teachers in the trade
continuation schools in Munrich. Some
OF the courses the teachers will take
are ar~t-forging, gold-smithing, copper
work, book binding, printing, litho-
p ? glass painting. decorating.
Mrs. Nelson Bennett has Just turned
over to the Northern Pacific railroad
the complete Point Defiance tunnel at
Tacoma, Wash, which was unfinished
when her husband died in July last.
Mrs. Bennett being a Of the
never-quit spirit took charge of the
york where her husband left off and
superintendent the job until it was com
pleted.
THOUGHT GEMS.