The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-07-08
DOINGS OF WOMEN

Queen Mary IL q colonel In the
British army.
Mary is the OcmmOnest name for
A woman can exist on s per cent less
| food than q man.
California q s1s,2 s2 women entitled
to register and vote. I
Miss Edith Becker Is state bacteria
togtst In Massachusetts.
Oregon has two women trunk maxi
srs and seven umbrella makers.
Women are FIST replacing the men
clerks In the London banks.
The total membership OF the Ladies'
pr the Maccabees Of the World Is now
London has a Japanese woman den-
list who 10 doing a thriving business. Z
Women n girls are employed as
road workers In the Philippines.
a society woman in Japan only
spends about $500 a year for clothes.
Miss Laura Tygett Is the first worn-
IN 70 be elected q city clerk In Illinois.
School girls in Berlin are compelled
back.
Miss Ella Buch has been employed In
the Lltitz. Pa, postoffice as q clerk
Mrs. w. M. Danner Is one OF the few
women In the world who have dared
enter o leper colony. .-
In Germany the women are running
tne elevators. which the Germans q j
running chairs. sNS .
Women who exercised their right to
v0.e &C a recent Chicago elections
Mrs. D. T. Jones. OF Grafton, Pa. de-
votes all her spare time to reading to
workers In a shop for the blind.
Women are employed as workers In
the manufacture OF electrical and tele-
phone apparatus In Norway.
Women immigrants are less than
one-third the whole number OF inin1i-
grants who come into the United States.
Frauietn LII Zgragen, daughter of q
Bernese lawyer. II the only woman bar
rfster In Switzerland.
Kitchen maids In England average
1850 q year In wages. while the cooks
receive on an average OF 1851. 80.
In order 20 maintain q stationary
population. writer's claim that every
married woman should bear four chill
Mrs Alice steboins Wells has been
elected president OF the newly formed
National Association OF Policewomen.
Owing to the demand for good kit
tens, an English woman has gone into
the business Of breeding cats as well
Two women have registered for wire
less work In England. Both women are
or independent meal and have taken
up telegraphy as q hobby.
There Is a dearth OF females In Bull
garia, Japan n Australia, but O
large surplus In England, Scotland,
Switzerland and Scandinavia.
IN order to reduce the high cost OF
living, several Philadelphia women
nave formed an organization for CO.
operative buying of farm products.
In Burrnah women pick their own
husbands n retain their w name
after marriage. They also are allowed
TO manage their own domestic affairs.
A large London dairy company Is
employing girls to deliver milk and
they wear straw hats and white linen
overalls with scarlet belts and cuffs.
The National Motor Cab company,
OF London. has decided to employ
OF the men who have been called to
the front. ~
For the past rs years Miss Amanda
A. Newton has been painting fruits
from life and also making models Of
them for the United States agricul-
The all around championship Of
girls colleges OF the United States has
been awarded to Miss Carol Rice, a
society athlete who halls from Indian
Mrs. Esther Dees. Of Montgomery.
Ala, 10S years old and a widow of a
confederate veteran. has been placed
on the first class pension roll Of that
state.
Dr.. Marian H. Rea, has been ap-
pointed an inferno at the Philadelphia
hospital. having qualified with an av-
rag of S1.8. She was the only wom-
an applicant for the position.
Miss Bessie Townsend, Atlantic
City's girl comptroller, has a big UNI
dertaking on her hands, that of dis
posing of $685. 900 worth of municipal
bonds for resort betterments.
Gaby Deslys. the French actress,
never wears any other Jewelry but
pearls-her famous three-string neck
lace and two rings, each with a single
pearl h size of a pigeons egg.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who is now
past 80 years of age, Is one OF the
most active women In suffrage move
ment. She Is the only woman who has
ever been a candidate for president OF
the United States. II
Miss Olga Dorfner, the 1~7-year-old
Philadelphia girl who IL a champion
swimmer in her class, will compete in
the long distance swimming races to
be held at the Panama-Pacinc exposi-
ton. g , .-u.
Miss Irene Chancellor recently broke
the women's collegiate broad jump rec
ord when she cleared is feet n I
inch during a dual track meet between
Howard Paune college, of Mexico, Mo-,
and Stephens college, Of Columbia,
Mo-. e..
For the first time I'm history a
body OF working women from differ
n parts Of the country, representing
various industries, is to meet In New
York city during the present month
to deliberate upon legislation and
best method of organization.
Many women have taken the places
OF men In the offices OF q big express
| company In New York city and the
company states that with the help OF
adding machines work In n depart
ment that formerly required 10 men
Ia now done by nine women.