The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-28

dents in the colleges of the United
States, 10000 are women.
Four police women have been APP
pointed in Pittsburg to censor all
magazines sold in that city.
Mrs. Champ Clark. wife Of the
speaker OF congress, is a clever writer
and an authority on cookery
Women eat less than men because
they have smaller proportion of active
tissue than men of the same weight.
Women are now acting as section
hands on some of the German rail
ways, for which they receive zoe per
day.
statistics show that spinster lives
longer than married woman and that
business women outlive business men.
Mrs NJ. l.. Berger, wife of former
Congressman Victor L. Berger, has
been elected president of the MiIwau-
kee school board
philadelphia has thirty mothers
leagues in various parts of the city
where little girls are taught the care
of infants
Miss Teresa Poirier is boss of sew
eral hundred men in the Oklahoma
oil fields, where she acts as checker
for a large oil company.
Real babies will be used to instill
students with the mother love- study,
which will be added to the high school
course in Wheeling, w. Va.
Society women of Coudersport Pa,
becoming disgusted at the laXity of
the city authorities, cleaned the
streets Of the city recently.
Nine-year-od Anna c. stevens who
christened the United States torpedo
boat destroyer Conygham, is the
youngest sponsor in the United
States.
The suggestion of having women
act as cooks and caterers for the Brit
ish army in the field is being serious
ly considered by the English war de
partment.
For conspicuous bravery in the per
formance of duty, Mrs. Isabella n.
Goodwin. a police matron, has been
placed in the honor regiment Of the
New York police force.
Despite the fact that she is totally
deaf Miss Ruth Mccormick of st
Louis, Mo, has been awarded a free
scholarship at the school of fine arts
at the Washington university.
Lady French, wife Of Sir John
French, head of the British army in
the field, is at the head of the can
teens which are being operated in
England for the benefit of the muni
tion workers.
London has a municipal schoo
where girls may learn in six weeks tc
become grocers' clerks. The girls viii
be trained in all the routine work OF
assistants in grocery and provision
stores.
Miss Pauline Marriott of Salt Lake
City Utah, by writing eighty-seyen
words a minute in the recent state and
inter-mountain school championships
set new worlds record in those
classes.
The only woman member Of the
Market Growers Association is Miss
NJ. e. Osborne Of Ann Arbor Mich,
who by dint of circumstances and hard
work has become one of the leading
vegetable growers in her state.
Miss Rose Pitonoff of Dorchester
Mass, was the first swimmer of eth
er sex to cover the twelve miles be
tween Charleston bridge and Boston
light, although many famous home and
foreign watermen had previously at
tempted the feat.
Women are better fitted by nature
than men for prolonged efforts in
water because they possess in large
proportions the subcutaneous fats that
check heat radiation and thereby pre-
serve the temperature of the body
when exposed to chilling influences.
Miss Bernice Mccoy, state superin.
tendent and member Of the state land
board in Ohio, is said to have the wild
est official power of any woman in
the United States. The position gives
her a greater power tuan held by any
similar office holder in any other
state. By reason of this Miss Mccoy
practically controls over 100000
acre, Of land, school property.