Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
DOlNCS OF WOMEN.

Philadelphia has over $1,000 sales
wofne n clerical workers.
Margherita, ItaIy's queen mother, Is
an accomplished vtolinist.
In Persia It Is unknown for women
70 work in stores and offices.
Miss Maud Younger, OF Chicago. 10
known as the millionaire waitress.
Arizona has two women legislators
and seven women county school super
i~ntendents.
maintains q school where women are
taught farm labor.
II the women secure the vote In
Massachusetts,, a female governor will
be a legal possibility.
Women inspect as high as $1,000 car
trtdges a day In the United States ar
senal in Philadelphia.
DR.. Amanda T. Norris has beer prac-
ticing medicine In Baltimore for the
past IS years.
Over rs per cent OF the employees in
the British postal department are Worn
On.
In New York city public school
teachers must undergo examinations
and tuberculosis tests.
Mrs. Minna Mollmen. OF st. Louis.
has the distinction of being the mother
Of two mayors.
Mrs. Amy Winship, who is est "a
80 OF ase college stu
OSHl III IlG OlllLcu 9luIcS.
III national conference of charities
and corrections Is presided over by n
woman as president.
Fifty-thlee per cent of the girl grad
yates OF Barnard college are engaged
IN paid occupations.
DR.. Maria Montessori. the famous
Italian educator, will conduct a train
ing class for teachers In California.
Mrs. ~Pankhurst. the noted English
suffrage leader, has announced that n
Will mother" SO wal babies.
~Sixty-five per cent Of the women en-
ployed in Philadelphia department
stores are over II years Of age.
German mothers believe that II they
lose the heel Of a shoe one OF their
children will die before the year Is out.
An order OF honor solely for Wom-
en- VIII be n of the new diplomatic
decorations soon to be established by
the sultanate OF Egypt.
Some OF the largest taxpayers in Get
tysbnrg, Pa. are women. but they nave
no voice In the affairs OF the city's
government.
Miss Lora Scott. principal in a Phil
Adelphin public school. spends her va
cations each year by taking travel trips
into distant lands.
AZ the present time over 80 per cent
spf the women in Great Britain are en-
gagged either In voluntary work or In
professional or Industrial work.
MISS Annie r. Tinker. society horse
woman, suffragis and popular member
oI me younger social set in New, York
lily, has sailed for Paris, where she
viii take up Red Cross work.
Perhaps n most remarkable of the
many new posts which are now being
1iled ~ women In consequence Of the
ABSENCE Of so many men at the front
.England is that OF butcher.
Girls who had worked In shops and
NnO hnCQfna 9OroaoffC sarvapfo nj tho
solicitation of the New York. state de-
3artnent, have proven more satisfac-
tory. than the girls who have only
worked as servants.
Arnaud. widow OF a French
officer. Is forming a regiment OF wom-
IN who desire to be put under the d.
rection OF q NAL officer who will teach
hem how to use a rifle and advance
finder FIRE.
Twcnty-four girls OF Walnut Grove,
lsan.,s have formed a cadet corps with
.,le 5idea Ct later securing the permits
gnent making them officially a part Of
The state militia.
According to law In Austria q male
Srd female are supposed to be capable
pf mari wing and conducting their home
from the age Of IA. In Portugal a boy
4 girl at the age OF IL.
The supplement- OF women in the
tafes and restaurants in Paris has
caused the men walters to vigorously
protest against it, claiming that the In
Production of women would develop SCI
4 sious labor conflicts after the war.
Several Georgia women have formed
IN oraanizntion called the ELLEN
Woodrow Wilson Memorial in honor
" the presidents wife, and will UNI
Aertakts 10 educate mountain youth. q
work. ir seslich Mrs. Wilson was deeply
ntercsts8
Having already climbed to the height
q 5000 feet on the great ice peak in
h Canadian Rockies. Miss Mary l..
lobe has announced her intention Of
!Oon starting a second expedition / IN an
bffort TO attain ashigher point.
Countess Madeline Hunyadyi, OF
4 Hungary, Is the godmother OF 81 chill
lren OF men who have died In battle
ina the countess will pay for the bring
hg up OF all these babies, which she
"A tow regards as q part Of her own fam
~. Y
s sgeral hundred graduates OF the
WuaAan's Medical college at Philadel-
81 stt from all parts OF the world. will
ssArnble IN that city on June / and s
kl attend the alumnae conference to
held In connection with the 65th n
aual commencement Of the institution.