The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-08

Women in Bulgaria are employed.
on most all kinds of manual labor,
Not less than $4,000 women are now
working on the railroads of France.
Many of the women engaged in in
dustry in England, have donned mas.
cuine garb.
Missouri has twenty-three women
preachers of the Gospel who receive
yearly salary.
A school has been opened in Glas-
gov where women are taught the
art of being car conductors.
London is the one city in the Brit
ish Isles that so far has held out
against women tramway conductors.
Glasgow, Scotland, has a munition
factory where over 5000 women are
employed in making eighteen-inch
shells.
Princess Henry of Battenberg, gov
ernor of the Isle of Wight, is the only
British woman ruler
New South Wales has farm of
$500 acres fully equipped for the
training of women for agricultural pur
suits.
Queen Alexandra has always been
an ardent patron of hospitals and new
er sends anybody to substitute for her.
Two energetic young women in Co
lumbia, Mo. Misses Anna Young and
Della Humans, have opened up large
grocery store.
Women may replace men as stew
ards on all the transatlantic liners as
the result of conscription in Great
Britain.
The Countess Benchendorff, wife of
the Russian ambassador in London is
one of the best lady bridge players in
that city.
In two Cleveland foundrles 300 wom-
en- run great punching and drilling
machines, working side by side with
the men machinists.
In recent efficiency auto run, Miss
Eva Cunningham of Haverhill, Mass,
took first prize in the contest with
eighty men competitors.
Miss Florence Powdermaker has
been made assistant chemist in the
Baltimore board of health, a position
never before held by woman.
Once more the Craig prize in dra-
matte composition at Harvard has
been won by a woman-Mrs. Charlotte
Barrows Chorpenning of Winona,
Minn.
I Miss Blanche Ferree, who drives a
delivery auto car for a Philadelphia
florist, is the only woman holding
such a position in that city.
Miss Fung Hin Liu, who was gradu
ated from Wellesley little more than
a year ago will assume control of the
only woman's college in China.
Miss Presley Smith, a prominent
suffrage leader of England has been
appointed as assistant secretary of the
British Legation at Christiania, Nor
way.
OF the members of the Women's City
Club of Boston, which represents al
least thirty-nine professions, it is es
/ timated that nine out of every ten arc
/ hOme-makers.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw is to retire
after thirty years of continuous suf
frage service and eleven years a.
president of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association.
Art" Smith, the automobile racer
has engaged Miss Marie Templeton, q
San Francisco girl, as his mechani
clan. Miss Templeton wears a jumpe!
and overalls.
Kate Larber, aged 13, has since she
was IA months old, taken virtually nc
rourishment but coffee, which she
drinks in large quantities, sometimes
as high as twenty cups a day.
Most of the war supplies being
| shipped from Japan, are handled by
japanese women dock laborers, who
wear short kimonos, which expose
their muscular legs from the knees
down, and their bare arms show great
strength as they lift cases of shells
and drag along the wheels of caiss
sons.
Mrs Lucette Roberts, constable anC
deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz county
Arizona, is now in the east, trying Il
raise money with which to open a tu
berCu,osis hospital in her state.
Efforts are being made by the new
ly-o-ganized womans section of tn,
navy league to enlist a million mem
bers by January l. to aid in the move
ment for national preparedness.
Students taking teachers course
at Barnard College, are instructed il