The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-31

" '"S 6iooms III the lduiCuS DuTyed
racing stables near Paris.
Mrs. A. G. Hallaran receives $1,000
a year as deputy finan ,ial clerk of
Queens county, New YORK.
Women are said to be just as pro-
ficient as men in the game of chess.
One-third of all the women in New
Jersey have to work outside the
home for living
The immense krupp gun works To-
Gated in Essen, Germany, are now
employing over 5000 young women.
Prof Susan w. Kingsbury has been
appointed director OF the department
of social economy at Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Belle Whitney of New York
is a consulting fashion specialist of
manufacturers of fabrics and other
articles OF woman's wear.
The work of classifying and cata-
loguing the library of the state de-
partment at Washington is done by
woman-Miss Lucy S. Fitzhugh.
The medical department of Johns
Hopkins university-the most advanc.
ed institution of learning in the Uni
ted States-is open to women.
English society women have es-
tablshed an institution in which
nurses get three years of training
in the care of dogs and other pets
Princess Mary of England is a
splendid horsewoman and never miss
es her daily course of Swedish drill
| exercises.
Miss Blanche Payson, VINO is act
ing as special policewoman on the
Joy Zone at the Panama Exposi-
ton, is 6 feet inches tall and
weighs over 200 pounds.
Thirteen-year-old Alice Lord re-
Gently swan across Long Island
Sound, a distance of nine miles. The
feat has only been accomplished once
before, but never by a girl or woman.
Statistics show that in 1914 there
were 77,12O women in the colleges
of the United States, as compared
with 1858 in 1913.
Miss Florence Fisher is now head
of a firm of stenographers with rep
resentatives in many cities that spec
ializes in court, press and convention
reporting
Mrs. Jessie Stillman Taylor of New
York, but now a resident of Munich,
has presented to the Bavarian army
an ambulance train consisting of a
| motor car and two trailers.
Mrs. Susan E. Howard of Wakefield,
| Mass, is said to have the largest
| apiary in New England and one Of
| the largest owned and managed by a
woman in this country.
Miss Grace Keller of Dititz, Pa,
| has been a telephone operator for
thirty years and is one of the oldest
telephone operators in length of SER
vice in that state.
| What is said to be a new worlds S
| baseball throwing record for girl
was that which was made recently by
| Miss Ruth McCabe of Tacoma. Wash,
who threw ball 2O9 feet inches.
| The chief recreation of Gaby Des-
| lys, the famous French actress, is to
go shopping. The girl assistant who
conducts her around the different de-
partment stores is rewarded with a
| large box of chocolates.
Qualifying over several hundred ap.
plicants, Miss Mary Smith, aged %,
of Chicago, ILL.,, has accepted the po-
sition of companion to an aged couple
in McHenry county, Illinois. who have
agreed to give her SO week and
| $4,000 in cash at the death of the
| couple.
The Czarina Alexander Fedorovna
and two of her daughters have pass
ed examinations as trained nurses,
and with scores of other titled Rus.
sian women are working shoulder to
shoulder with the daughters OF the
humblest citizens.
While the war in Austria has de-
creased the number of men employed,
it has greatly increased the number
of women seeking work Al the pres
ent time there are from to II per
cent more women out of work than
men,
DIR. Lydia A. De Vilbiss head of the
new child hygiene bureau Of the state
board of health of Kansas, has in
augurated a campaign to get women
to run for the legislature in her state.
Mrs. Frank Brunson of Cherokee,
Iowa, claims the distinction of having
the largest ball of string in the world.
When the ball of twine was started