Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-08-05
DO|NGS OF WOMEN

Oregon has IA women attorneys.
h years graduates Of Vassar col
iege numbered 236.
One woman in every Is in the United
States is In business.
Two babies are born in Germany for
every M born in France.
Pittsburgh's policewomen are as
signed to secret service.
st. Louis society women dc their mar
ketlng after ~2idnight.
Minnesota club women are agitating
the idea of homes for teachers.
Women are paid 10 cents a day for
making army shirts in France.
OF the 79,946 women registered for
war work in England, only 1916 have
been utilized.
Very few of the nearly 400. 900 women
school teachers in the United States
are married.
A woman must be between the ages
of 80 and 40 to be eligible to appoint
ment on the Chicago police force.
Women are now being employed in
all the large factories in England where
munitions are manufactured.
Thirty-six girls are now acting as
ticket takers at the London bridge sta
ton of the Brighton railway.
Madam George Dongian was the first
woman to walk the streets Of Constan-
tinople with her face uncovered.
Women will replace the ITO, 900 farm
workers who have been called to the
front in England. Scotland and
Whales.
Nellie Barker is C%hicago's champion
runaway girl, having deserted her par
ents once q week for the past year.
Miss Neysa McMein, the we'll known
illustrator Of front covers for maya
zines. earns WE $4,000 a yea from her
own work.
The entrance Of women in the politi-
cal field in Japan is being bitterly OPP
posed by the men leaders Of the yari-
GUS political parties.
Mrs. Thomas j. Preston, jr., formerly
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is said to be
leading the fight against suffrage in
New Jersey.
Every city in Missouri which con
tains over 5000 inhabitants has the
power to appoint women as members
of the police force.
Quite a number Of women In Dun
dee. Scotland, have applied to the war
department for permission to be allowed
to be trained to drive motor cars.
Miss Eve Ramstedt. a former pupil
of Madam Curie, the radium expert,
has been appointed professor Of radiol-
ogy at the University of Stockholm.
Although h is past 62 years of age,
Miss S. D. Wallace, Of near %Indianapo-
lis. Ind. has again secured an annual
fishing and hunting license.
DR.. S. Josephine Baker, director Of
the department Of child hygiene of the
New York board Of health, has under
Der over 300 nurses and 100 doctors.
Miss r Breed, Of Denver, Colo,
earned all her expenses for one year
at the Colorado agricultural college, by
raising chickens on a vacant city lot.
In America farmers wives consti-
tute the largest class of economically
useful women, for they produce nine
tired in some of the latest clothes
characterized by short skirts and
waists with deep pointed neck open
ings.
In the SO years she has been con-
nected with the bureau of engraving
and printing in Washington, it is esti-
mated hat over 500, 600, 600, 900 has
passed through the hands of Miss An
ME Roe. chief of the numbering diyi-
sion.
1t has been proposed that the 2,OO0.-
600 members of the General Federation
Of Women's clubs deny themselves one
pair Of silk stockings a year and con-
tribute that money to an endowment
fund for work Of the declarations de-
partment In aesthetic lines.
Frau Hedwig Heyl is the most pow
erful woman in Germany and the gov
eminent depends largely upon her to
analyze and test substitutes offered
for various foods where the supply is
short, and when recommended by her.
directions are given Cor adoption by
the people.
A Reputation of Russian women