Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-08-12
D0|NGS OF WOMEN

WV A1lNS d Stronger S6IlSc III kdSl0
than women.
Women may now hold office in the
Presbyterian church.
There are nearly 5000 women post
masters in the United States.
Wives are still obtained by pur-
chase IN some parts of Russia.
Woman suffrage has been defeated
in the Wisconsin legislature.
An English scientist declares that
women's feet are growing smaller.
Married women are now allowed to
teach in the Lynn. Mass, public
schools.
Idaho has appointed a committee to
investigate a proposed minimum wage
law for women.
Female employees in the United
States bureau of engraving and print
ing have a union.
Moving picture film producers in
England are replacing the men called
to the front with women workers.
The Kansas City school board is
considering the question OF permit
ing female teachers to marry.
Miss S. Bernice Faulkner was re-
Gently appointed receiver Of an In
diana bank which nae failed.
OF the $40 female school teachers in
Scranton. Pa, 329 have joined their
recently formed labor union.
Princess Mary of England is an ac-
complished s~tenographer and often
acts as secretary for her royal father.
One of the new fields of work for
college women is that of craftsmanship
in the large department stores.
Women employed in the United
States arsenal in Philadelphia have
asked for a 20 per cent increase in pay.
Three thousand women are today
| nYnn1nNn1 in tho H,oriD,,~ I1No =, - ~ t>
of the government at Washington.
Mrs. Margaret McGinnis has been
actively engaged in newspaper work
In Boston for the past 45 years.
I date over $1,000 women have APP
piled for war service in England and
over $1,000 munition volunteers have
enrolled.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany will hereafter pay their women
ticket takers the same pay as the men.
Mrs. Louise o. Rowe has been APP
pointed commissioner Of the bureau Of
public welfare in Chicago at an an
nual salary of $4,000.
The judges at the Panama-Pacifc
exposition AVE awarded the grand
prize for artistic bookbinding to Mrs.
l.. A. Cole-Howland, of Boston.
An effort is being made to organize
the 100000 working women in the
United States III order to obtain bet
ter working conditions.
Miss Myrtle Merritt, who was re-
Gently elected president of the Arkan-
sas State Retailers association, is said
may be divorced with the consent Of
the tribe and can marry again.
Two women in the government serv-
Ice at Washington are food experts.
One is a pomologist and another is a
specialist in medicinal plants.
The Washington industrial welfare
commission has xed 50 per week as
the minimum wage for chambermaids
and other hotel help in hat state.
Women students in the German uni
versities now number 1920, or 7.45
per cent Of the total enrolled. OF this
number 944 are studying medicine and
62 the science of law.
Miss Elizabeth Allen, the we'll
Wis, is recovering from a complica-
ted operation in which a bone taken
from her leg was grated to her spine.
The organization Of American wom-
en- for strict neutrality has secured
100000 signatures Of women to a
petition urging the government to
munition.
Miss A. Florence Yerger, Philadel-
ph1a's most successful woman lawyer,
has more business than she can
handle herself and has been compelled
to open three offices in different parts
of the city.
Since the Dominion Of Canada was
created, Al years ago. there have been
only 443 divorces granted, while in the
United States in he same period of
time the courts have dissolved 1,274.-
BAL marriages.
Miss Bessie Townsend, the My
woman city comptroller in the United
States, recently became mayor of At
lantic City for a day, when Mayor
Riddle and all the members of the city
commission were absent.
Hungarian women carry their babies
In long pillows. The babe Is laid or
the pillow, the end Tapped over, md
is usually long enough to come up to
the nfant's chin. A string is then
tied around the pillow, holding it close
about the youngster, thus making a
snug and comfortable little bed.
According to the latest census fig
ures, AIS women in the United States
are employed as fishermen and oyster
men. OF the same sex there are n
lumbermen and woodchoppers, 81
blacksmiths, 80 gold and silver mine
operatives, Is brick and stone masons
and s49 builders and building con-
tractors.
In the Torres Straits Islands it is
the height of bad form for a young
man to make the first advances in
wooing. A g irl sends a message to a
young man to meet her n if all goes
Z SiS III 6So lIIIi " ltdlIlC Lie udy.
The shortage of labor in the United
States, which is becoming more pro-
bounced as the war advances in Europe
is likely to cause the employment of
women in the iron and steel industry
Of this country as they do in. Europe.
With the exception of Great Britain
there is not a single European country
which does not maintain a highly paid
corps Of women diplomatic agents in
addition to it's regular staff of embas-
sailors, ENJOYS and attaches.
A substantial number of policewomen
are now on duty in various LANCER
spots in London and elsewhere, giving
their energies to the task Of protecting
women and children and assisting the
regular police force in the prevention Of
crime.
Miss Margaretta W. Seiser of Jenk-
intown, Pa, who graduates from Vas
sar college this month. will devote her
life to an effort, to discover what con-
ditions in plant life tend toward a
steady secretion of nectar in such
plants as clover and sage.
The most vital thing to women are
children, and the infant mortality
is lowest in the world in three coun-
tries where women vote, New Zealand,