The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-10-26
women in
The news

Is carrying out In this midtown OF
New England. The dream that her
husband dreamed long years ago has
become an accomplishment, and sue
cessful season is just finished. She
has sent back to the cities score Of
men and women workers in the cre-
ative arts renewed in health and cour-
age, and with ample fruits Of good
work done in the peace Of the hills.
And she is now facing her annual def
icit, which she has met year after
year by giving recitals of Mcdowell
music from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
A woman OF frail health, she has
astounded her most intimate friends by
the tenacity of her spirit. She attrib-
utes her success with the colony Of
her unobtrusive management. She
keeps herself and her husbands music
| in the background. She believes there
should be NO dominating influence in
colony Of creative beings.
Pittsburg-The Pennsylvania State
conference of the Daughters of the
American Revolution opened here to.
day. Mrs. s. Jarvis Adams will give
a reception to the delegates at her
home tomorrow evening. The Carnegie
Institute will be inspected this even
ing, and on Wednesday the delegates
will attend play in the theatre Of
the Carnegie Institute Of Technology.
Boston-Miss Alice Henry, former
editor of Life and Labor" in an ad'
dress before the members of the Wo
mems City Club, stated that women
now work in all but A of 400 trades
She pointed out that because Of the
ever increasing number of household
labor saving inventions, vacuum clean
ers, ETC., women are finding more and
more work outside the home. She ar
gued that girls should be allowed to
obtain knowledge of trades in which
there is at present little demand fol
female workers. Her statistics were
gained from the census tabulations
Among the unusual trades in which
women work she wound II women
managers of livery stables.
Trenton, N. J.-Candidates for po'
licewomen in this state will be given
| official tests next week. The Civil Ser
vice Commission will conduct the tests
on Nov. 3, and the candidates will be
limited to ages of 80 to 40. Tren.
ton will have the first eligible list in
the State.
Atlanta-While sweet-scented let
/ ters are finding their way to the bat
tle-front in France from Georgia maid
ems, in the campaign to cheer uI
friendless soldiers, the women o1
France are to have their souls healed
by the CHEEKY letters from Uncle
Sans fighters. Just as lonesome as
the men in the trenches are Uncle
Sans boys who are doing duty in the
lonely BLACK Republic" of Haiti. They
heard of the sweet missives that Geof
i gia girls are writing to the men II
the trenches, and so they have laid
their case before DR.. f. E. Mays, OK
ecutive secretary OF the Georgia wal
Relief Committee. DIR. Mays received
the names of hundred French fight
erS who were lonesome, and he dis
tributed the names among Atlantis
girls. Now he must heed the miser,
Of the boys In Haiti, and he has con
sented to send to the pretty girls o
France the names Of the lonely mar
ines of Uncle Sam.
Philadelphia-Mrs. Joseph Fels, th'
single tax lecturer who took up tn
propaganda which her husband wa
spreading before his death, has Jus
completed a fourteen weeks lectur'
tour in the West and Canada. Mrs
Fels believes that all taxes will b.
removed save one, the tax on land.
year ago. she returned from England
and has since lectured in nearly ever
large city in the country.
o.
New York--The final week Of tn
suffrage campaign in New York Stat
has been reached, and there are 600
campaign workers stumping, buttor
holing and shouting throughout tn
state. A thousand meetings are he'll
each day, and every city, town an
hamlet is being combed for suffrag
votes. The big parade of last Satul
day is being followed by the Las
grand rallyfng week. in which the O
forts of the volunteer workers are b.
ing doubled.
San Francisco-One Of the most pit
full of wars victims is Russian CIR