The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-09-09

as a steamboat captain.
Mrs Frederick Gardner prominent
in St Louis society, is now touring
the California mountains hunting for
bear and deer.
Mrs. Emma Elhaut, a short story
writer, walked from Chicago to San
Francisco, to enable her to secure
material for her stories.
Thirty-fiye per cent of the women
in New York. Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey and Massachusetts have to work
for a living outside the home.
The French government has award
ed gold medal to Mrs. w. X. Van
derbit, who is president cf the Amer
lean committee for clothing for the
wounded
Millions of women are in readiness
should they be called on by Great
Britain to help in the great conflict
which is now being waged against
Germany.
Mrs. Julia A. Kingmau of Everett,
Mass celebrated her ninety-fourth
birthday recently by winning the first
prize at a whist party at her home.
All the men in the little Bavarian
town of Absam being on military
duty, the authorities have formed an
emergency fire brigade consisting of
thirty-fiye girls.
Women in Kansas can ECld any of
flee in the state and run for congress
also; in fact they are allowed more
liberties than those of any other com
> monwealth.
The 1900 girls employed in the
tailoring and dressmaking shops in
New York City want a special detail
of 200 women police appointed to pro
tect strikers from gunner.
The threatened grand jury invest
igation of the juvenile court in Chi
cago is said to be direct attack OF
Miss Mary Bartelme, assistant judge
of the court
The majority of the boatmen il
| Wales having gone to war, their place.
have been taken by women who taxi
people out for a sail or row in thu
same safe way as the men did.
Miss Marie Meyer of Columbia
Mo, became a citizen Of the United
States recently by renouncing al
allegiance to foreign potentates, ant
! especially to the emperor of Ger
| many.
| Miss Alva Bennell, a 15-year-olt
| girl of Avondale, Cal, is said to hol,
the record for the amount of brea
baked by a girl of her aGe, havin
1O9 loaves to her credit in fou
months.
Female students at the Harvar
summer school have orgauized a clu
in which each member pledges he
self not to marry before she is
and then only to man who is earl
ing at least $4,000 a year.
ii Princess White Deer, a Mohawk II
/ dian maiden from the s.. Regis re
ervation, is now in England, wher
she will marry a Russian army o
| ficer to whom she has been engage
more than a year.
III At several points in the interior I
Russia women and school childre
have organized societies to hand
| the crops, which promise to be Il
most abundant for years.
| If the suffragists win at the comm
! election in New Jersey, Mrs. Ra
| mond F. Davis of Bloomfield will I
candidate for the office of tow
clerk, running against he, husban
who now holds the job.
| Wimen in Germany may ava
| themselves of the highest educatio
as all the universities in that cou
| try are open to women the same ;
| they are to men, and they may o
| tain whatever degree thy want.
| Aunt Betsy Clark is the olde
| person in West Virginia, havir
4 passed her one hundred aud twelf
| milestone Even at her advanced az
| she does most of her houswork, al
| does not wear glasses no: have al
l use for a cane.
| Peasant women o. Northern Fran
1 are spending much of their time
| the fields while their husbands are
| the front fighting the Germans.
the spring they plowed and plante
and now their labors promise to
! rewarded with a fine harvest.
Women munition workers in q
| Vtckers factory in England are ear
ing from 81 to s. per week of S
shifts Of fi.ty-four hours. They we
averalls of butcher blue, caps
match, leather gloves and stron
boots. They all live together in
house close to the factory.
Women in Canada no longer ha
| the right to veto the erlisting