The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-04

girls patriotic union, the object of
which is to aii in relief work.
During the last year a quarter of
million dollars worth of women's
dress models were imported from
France
After Sept. ! women employees in
the laundries Of Massachusetts will
receive not less than IS per week
Women will ,eplace the men post
men in England just as fast as they
can be trained 20 do the work thor
oughly
Although she is 101 years of age,
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor still works be-
hind the counter in her tobacco store
in Manchester, England,
Rather than take a civil service
examination, Mrs. f. II. Schmidt, who
has been postmstress at LaMott Pa,
for thirteen years has resigned.
Mrs. Adelia E!'ison of Beloit Wis
recently celebrated her eighty-siXth
birthday by smoking her clay pipe
and hoeing her garden.
Turkish women are to be counted
among the most industrious women
of the world. They make carpets,
screens for doors, work bags, horse
CLOTHING, blankets etc.
Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of Secre-
tary Of state Lansing, is an anti-suf-
fragist and alsJ has the distinction
of being the wife and the daughter Of
a secretary Of state,
Queen Mary of England has given
81 ,25O to pay foc the training and eN-
penses of a student at the London
School of Medicine for Women for
five years course.
Miss Lydia Lee, practicing attor-
ney in Missouri has applied for mem
bership in the st. Louis Bar associa-
/ ton and if admitted she will be the
first woman so lOrored.
Italian women Lawyers have formed
a committee in Leghorn to obtain
their admittance 60 the bar as part
OF the reforms in legal procedure
about to be considered by the Cam
era.
More than $1,000 100000 of the
wealth in the United States is in
the hands of women, chief among
them being Mrs. Mary W, Hartman,
wife of the late E. II. Hartman, rail
! road magnate
The theory that college women be
come odd maids is refuted by the
stephens college list of graduates of
! the institution, for out of 455 who
were graduates between 1857 and
1911. 26O are listed as married
Forty per cent Of the high explosive
makers and shell hackers in Germany
are women, while 20 per cent of the
makers Of tents, haversacks and sim
liar equipment also belong to the same
sex, and in the manufacture of timed
meats and preserves 70 per cent o.
those employed are females.
Queen Mary is the only woman il
Great Britain who does not come
within the scope &C the married WON
ans property act. therefore if she
contracted debts IN her husbands
name he would not be responsible
for them.
Miss Katherine Minehart, a Phila
delphia woman has patented a new
form of handbag which is capable OF
being converted into a seat. Wher
opened. one part Of the contrivance
serves as a seat while another forms
a support for th" back.
The Cars youngest daughter, the
the Grand Duchess Anastasia, who is
now IA years OF age, is hard at work
before 6 o'clock every morning knit
ting comforters. and later in the day
she visits hospitals where she writes
letters for wounded soldiers.
Lady Mackworth, Lusitania sur
vivor, is now managing England's Goa
trust. of which her father Is at th'
head. Her father, d. 4. Thomas, Il
now in the United States on business
for the British government and sh'
has undertaken the giant task in hi
absence.