The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-14
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Interesting Notes Of the Female Sex
the World over.

women.
Missouri has over 2jO women com
mcrcIal photographers.
over 1000 women earn wages In the
slaughter houses Of the United States.
Mrs. Kathryn Van Leuyan Is assist
ant prosecuting attorney Of Nowata
County. oklahoma.
Trenton. N j., now has police
woman. whose duty It is to supervise
girls and dance halls.
Gentlcwomen In England made des-
titutc by the war are now trained free
In the art OF housecraft.
Miss Margaret u. owen of Passaic,
for speed as a typist
las Alice Mccoy. aged l3. has
been awarded the grand championship
OF Louisiana In pig raising.
Miss Hazel Mackaye, sister of Percy
Mackaye, the dramatist. has adopted
the unusual vocation of pageant writ
or.
Baroness Beckendorff, a former Ken
tucky girl and wife OF a Russian noble
man, will take up aviation as pas
time.
Viscountess Benoist d'Azy has been
recommended for war cross for ser
vice she has rendered In the hospitals
In France.
Mrs. Dorothy NJ. Rolph, Insurance
commissioner of Colorado, started in
eight years ago as clerk in the de.
partment.
Miss Helen Taft. daughter of former
President Taft is taking a postgradu
ate course at Yale in literature and
history.
I In Russia girl has never chaper.
ons, but cavaliers. Either she goes out
with her governess and mother. or she
stands alone.
The Rev. Gertrude Won Petzold. who
was expelled from England. has been
elected assistant pastor of the Amer
lean church, In Berlin.
Women tramway conductors on the
Leeds (England) cars. receive lie a
day, which Is the same rate of pay as
received by the men.
Miss Julia c. Lathrop, head of the
chldrcn's bureau. is the highest paid
woman on the pay roll of the United
States government.
Mrs Bradley Martin and her daugh-
ter, the Countess of Craven, have
turned over most of their vast estate
in Scotland. to convalescent officers
Miss Ida A. Lesserd. lamplighter
on the Mississippi river for the United
States government is one of the few
women engaged In that kind of work
Among tie constitutional reforms
now being considered by the Neither
lands government is one providing for
universal woman suffrage in that coun-
try.
II cost the New York state as
sociation opposed To woman suffrage
over $4,000 to help defeat the suff.
rage amendment at the recent election
held in that state.
Mrs Lydia Botkiu of Urbana, Ill.,. is
l0l years of age, but has a remark
able memory and can tell with the ut.
most accuracy events that happened
ninety seven years ago
Miss Jennie NJ Derrick, who has been
teaching school form any years in
New York, has Just been admitted as
u member OF the bar in Brooklyn, and
will immediately open law offices
Although she is only 20 years Of age.
Miss May Trail is a skilled electrical
engineer. and has full charge of the
huge electric plant AT Studley college
at Warwickshire, ireland,
Lillian J. Martin. recently appointed
head OF the department OF psychology
at Stanford university, is the first
woman ever placed in charge Of de-
partmeut AZ that university.
Mrs John Graber, an ardent Sutfra-
riSt, has been elected constable OF
Emith, Ohio, an office for which she
WAS not candidate, She did not even
know that she was being voted for
The territory now under the eQuSli-
ty regime embraces S,SS7,o0O square
miles and \ population Of over $4,000.
O0O. In some " these communities
women have been voting for more than
torty five years,
] \ decoration exclusive to women is
+ the Imperial Order of the Crown Of
I India, and Lady Randolph Churchill is
one Of the few well.known women who
have been the recipient Of this GOV,
eted decoration.
The New York board Of education
has amended its bylaws 50 that any