Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-21
Interesting lettings Concerning the
Doinss of the Feminine Sex the
World Over.

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The Woman's Trade union of Amer
Ca has over $4,000 members.
Three out of every our nonagen-
arians in Berlin. Germany, are women.
Miss Anna r. Croker is curator
. If the Portland, Ore. Art museum.
About 80 per cent of the electo-
rate in Sweden at present are women.
over 10000 working girls in New
York city attend night schools.
Over 1872, 900 women in New York city
are employed in mechanical trades.
New York has nearly 1000 women
boarding M lodging house keepers.
over 80 per cent, of the females In
the United States are unmarried.
Women school teachers in Denmark
receive from 1854 to $500 a year salary.
Suffragists claim the credit of elect
Ing United States Senator Curtis in
Kansas.
If Michigan establishes a woman's re-
formatory it will be controlled and
operated by women.
Women 'clergymen" increased 1898
per cent, in the United States during
the past 10 years.
Mrs. Leonora q. Meder receives $1,000
a year as superintendent of public well
fare in Chicago.
Mrs. Betsey Story. of Carmi, Ill.,, has
never worn a corset in her life and she
Is now 102 years of age.
Mime. Seinbrich. the opera singer, is
Mt the head of the Polish relief COM
mittee in the United States.
Over s5,000.00 will be paid out his
year by the various states to mothers
who are entitled to pensions.
Kansas women are asking for laws
that will make them equal partners in
business with their husbands.
Three German soldies taken as pris-
oners by Russia proved to be women
wearing the regular uniform.
Washington society women are now
having their gowns made in a color to
match that OF their pet dogs.
OF the total number of shareholders
In the Pennsylvania railroad, 1913,
or 4S.11 per cent, are women
Mrs. Anna NJ. Wilkinson has sailed
for Russia, where she will display
samples of more than so different
American manufacturers.
Mrs. Emma Z. Wilbur, who has Just
been elected a Councilman in Stayton,
Ore, is the first woman to hold office
In that city.
Commissioner of Corrections Kath-
crime B. Davis, of New York, has a plan
for organizing a farming colony for
womer prisoners.
Great Britain is refusing the
preferred help Of English ome doc-
tors, While Russia is gladly accepting
such assistance.
" tile l.vou NOlfleu III New 1OTk city
who q undergone the twilight
sleep" treatment, so per cent declare
their ordeal to have been painless.
Mrs. Thomas r. Hart. the millionaire
policewoman" of Muncie, Ind. has re-
signed because her health would not
permit her to continue her work.
Chorus girls in New York city OBJ
ject to being sensationalized and have
asked for the privilege of censoring
matter before being sent to the news
papers.
The woman's legislative congress
recently voted down eugenics but passed
several other measures, Including
an eight-hour day for working women.
Women are now employed as CASH
ters in the Waldorf hotel in New York
city. because it is claimed they are
sharper about their work than men.
Quebec Canada. nuns have a COM
plete booking establishment in thei1
nunnery. where girls entering ara
taught and trained in the rudiments Of
printing.
Although she is only 10 years old.
Miss Ethel Melendy has been appoints
ed postmistress at Elbing. Kan, hav-
ing won out over several men COM
petitors in a civil service examination.
In Denmark the widow of a public
school teacher Is entitled to a pension
of one-eighth of her husbands average
salary during the last five years of
his office.
Mile. Renaudiere has been awarded
the Order of h Leopold by King AL
bert OF Belgium, as a reward for her
bravery under fire while serving with
the Red Cross ambulance.
Mrs. Anna Moore, of Chicago, has
Just discovered that she Is an adopt
ed daughter, after SO years belief that
farmer.
Among the laws of France which
have been suspended because OF the war
is the one that requires thai the banns
must be posted in the city hall two
weeks before the weddings take place.
Mrs. Harry X. Carson, who has been
IN the dry goods business in Shelby
Vile. Ind, for the past 80 years, is to
retire, after amassing a considerable
fortune. She owns the biggest store of
Its kind in that. city.
The intercollegiate Bureau of Occu-
pations, managed by the New York
lumna associations of nine eastern
women colleges, has already found 846
positions for college women in 2S dis
tinct eields of work.
Emperor William. OF Germany. has
broken his ironclad rule against fem
mime advice since he now allows his
only daughter, Princess Victoria Lou
Use, to express her opinions concerning
the military operations being carried
On In that country.
Miss Frances Hopkins. of Jefferson
City. Mo-, has been appointed probate
judge In Clay county, to succeed her
father, who died recently. This is the
first time q woman has ever been app
pointed to such a high office and Is
without precedent in that state.
Miss Jean 4. Moehle. an automobile
saleswoman. recently showed tina she
could handle machinery as well as sell
cars. In a leather apron and blue jean
coat ahn Sfnod nm Al nla ffpry,1 fn q NoNly