The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-05

war.
Owing to the shortage of men in
the professions, women are now per
mitted to enter certain universities
in Russia.
New Jersey has an old blue law
under which women are still arrested
and fined for being common scolds.
Mrs. Harriet c. Adams, the noted
female explorer, probably is the only
woman to ever cross Haiti on horse
back.
Three women will be candidates
for nomination on the socialist party
ticket in Brooklyn at the coming el &C.
ton
Miss Frances Ingram, head of the
Neighborhood House in Louisville,
KY, is called the Jane Addams" of
Kentucky.
In 1886 there were only seven vo-
cations open to women; now there
are hardly any that the feminine
sex are not allowed to be in.
London has elaborated the trade
school idea to include the work of
Quitting women with the equipment
to face life's struggle.
Dutch suffragists are now working
hard to get an equal suffrage clause
incorporated in the new constitution
to be passed on next month.
Mrs. Bartlett Border of White
stone, r. l., who has been driving IN
army truck for the British army, is
home on furlough.
Japan has an organization com
posed of 10000 women whose object
is to force men to treat wives as
equals and to vote for laws protecting
women.
Mrs. E. H. Hartman has ordered
the discrimination of the change
being made at the Omaha shops Of
the Union Pacific railroad into war
munition factory.
Mrs. Melissa IIOdgdon of Saco, Me-,
who is now past so years of age,
has been employed constantly for the
last sixty years as a weaver in a
textile mill
Swiss women have pledged them
selves to a proposition to adopt for
the remainder of the war the children
in the neighboring countries wh)I
have been made orphans by the war
Mrs. Ella d. Rowland of Zillah,
Wash, owns a vast apple orchard
upon which it is claimed she raises
the finest apples that are grown IN
the United States.
The Turkish mother loads her child
with amulets as soon as it is born,
and a small bit of mud steeped in
hot water prepared by the previous
charms, is stuck on its forehead.
From two-thirds to three-fourths
of the women workers in the fac
tories, stores, laundries and in in.
dustrial occupations generally, work
at wages of less than IS per week.
There are over 500 women in the
east end of London who are earning
their living by removing the skins OF
onions. With practice they can make
from soc to 81 day
Twenty-fouryear-old Miss Frances
Cadero of Connelsville, Pa, manages
seventy-siX-acre farm including the
care of six horses and many COWS.
When working in the field or barn
she wears trousers.
In England special colleges for
women have been established at Cam
bridge and oxford, affording the same
instructions and comforting equivalent
degrees to those given at the univer-
sity itself
When her father, a baker, WAS
called away to war, Mile. Daniau,
who is only 10 years of age. took
his place in the bakeshop and is
now supplying the whole village of
EXoudun, France, with its bread.
The duchess of Norfolk is a great
believer in very airy rooms, especially
for the children, and the windows of
her nurseries at Arundel castle are
kept open night and day throughout
the whole year.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney of New
York has notified the Toledo Museum
Of Art of a prize competition of art,
open to all artists and students in
sculpture, poster design AMI
black and white drawing.
Mrs Marie j. Howe, wife of Uni
ed States Immigration Commission
ar Howe of New York City, is al
minister, a suffrage worker,
/ playwright and the manager of
theatrical stock company for the pro