The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-18
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
interesting Notes Of Feminine Sex the
World over.

than any other sport.
Germany's surplus OF women now
totals nearly 100000.
Women telegraph operators in this
country number over 1900
The munition industries in France
employ over 100000 women
Massachusetts, has over $500
school teachers on the pension fund.
London has a school whale women
are given a course in grocery sales
manship.
Nina Cunard. the motion picture
actress. never had any stage expert
ence.
Canadian women are organizing TO
boycott German and Austrian manu-
featured goods.
Miss Ona L. Pauke has been ap-
pointed commissioner of charities in
Mddletown. y. Y.
Several thousand women clad in
overalls recently paraded the streets
of London.
Birmingham is the only city in Eng-
land where women are licensed as tax
icab drivers.
The price of women's shoes w.!l be
increased from 20 to 40 per cent dur
ing the coming winter.
In a few years Germany will have
more women attorneys than any ether
country in the world.
The club women of Louisiana, Geor-
gia and Alabama are working for
compulsory education laws
New York City has 500 mother 10
lice, who act as unpaid assistants to
the regular police force.
From the middle of the last cen
tury the women of Russia have as
serted their eagerness for professional
training
Many British women doing mems
work are wearing trousers, as they
are more comfortable and convenient
dress.
Mrs. Charles E. Hughes, wife of
the republican candidate for presi-
dent, is graduate of Wellesley col
lege.
Although not a sailoress, Mrs. Eliza
beth w. Joy of Baltimore, Md, has
crossed the Atlantic ocean twenty
nine times.
one of the results of the present
war is the astonishing increase OF
women students in all Germany uni
versities.
Mrs. Martin Littleton still keeps up
her interest in the purchase Of the
home of Thomas Jefferson at Month
cello.
Miss Elbertie Foundry has charge
of the bureau that complies the set of
life tables in the United States census
bureau.
Miss Marie A. Peary, daughter of
the Arctic explorer, has taken up
aviation and is contemplating a trip
to the North Pole in an airship.
Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont has pledged
herself to raise a fund of 100000 to
secure the passage of the federal
amendment granting suffrage to
women.
Miss Eta NJ. Burkhart of Sheridan,
Wyo.. / conceded to be the queen
of potato growers" in the United
States. She has a record of raising
GAO bushels to the acre.
Several cities in England now en-
plov women as car conductors.
Among the largest are Glasgow, With |
200: Birmingham, with 700; Liver
pool. with 300; Sheffield with 500, aud |
Leeds, with 400.
Miss Lotta Crabtree, once one Of me
feted idols of the American Stage and |
now rearly 20 years y age, has ioined |
the artist colony az Gloucester, Mass, |
aud .c,c3ty bcgar .ha study ~ ar'
TA,:'y thousand '!lswomen ir
T.sa- arc working g.: r.t' 7"'.'
They have built rural clubhouses, es-
tablished markets for farm women [
and offered prizes for the best con
Quoted rural schools.
Countess Won Bernstorff, formerly
Miss Jeanne Luckenmeyer of New
York CITY and wife of the present
German ambassador to the United /
States. has not seen her husband since
the outbreak OF the war.
The state railways OF Wurttemberg' /
Germany. have appointed the first
woman station master in that country.
She has complete charge of station
and directs the incoming and outgoing
of all trains.
The labor reserves in America to
supply the existing demands are wom-
en-. Many thousands Of them have al
ready been drawn into industry for :