Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-16
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CAPABLE WOMEN
AND THEIR WORK

Many men are now fighting in the
Slay army.
London's business is now praetic-
ally run BY women
Germanys surplus of women now
totals nearly million.
The munition industries in France
employ more than 100000 women.
Women telegraph operators in this
country number more than 100000.
Massachusetts has more than 5000
school teachers on the pension fund.
London has school where women
are given course in grocery sales
manship.
Canadian women are organizing to
boycott German and Austrian manu-
featured goods.
Miss Ona F. Pfluke has been ap-
pointed Commissioner of Charities in
Miidletown, " Y.
Birmingham is the only city in Eng
land where women are licensed as
taxicab drivers.
In few years Germany will have
more women attorneys than any other
country in the world.
The clubwomen of Louisiana, Georg-
ia and Alabama are working for COM
pulsory educational laws.
From the middle of the last century
the women of Russia have asserted
their eagerness for professional train
ing.
Many British women doing mems
work are wearing trousers, as they are
mere comfortable and convenient
dress.
Mrs, Charles E. Hughes, wife of the
Republican candidate for president, is
a graduate of Wellesley College.
Although not a sailoress, Mrs. Eliza
beth w. Joy of Baltimore, Nd, has
crossed the Atlantic Ocean % times.
One of the results of the present
strike is the astonishing increase of
women students in all German uni
yersities.
Mrs. Martin Littleton still keeps up
her interest in the purchase of the
home of Thomas Jefferson at Month
cello.
Miss Elbertie Foundray 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 avia-
ton and is contemplating trip to the
North Pole in an airship.
Miss Eta M. Burkhart of Sheridan.
Wyo., is. conceded to be the Queen of
Potato Growers" in the United States.
She has a record of raising $40 bush
els to the acre.
Several cities in England now en-
ploy women as car conductors. Among
the largest as car conductors. Among
Birmingham, with 700; Liverpool.
with 800; Sheffield, with 500 and
Leeds with 400.
Miss Lotta Crabtree, once one of
the feted idols of the American stage
and now nearly 20 years of age, has
Joined the artist colony at Gloucester,
Mass. and recently began the study
of art
Twenty thousand clubwomen in
Texas are working for good roads.
They have built rural club houses, es-
tablisbed markets for farm women
and offered prizes for the best con-
Quoted rural schools
The state railway of Wuerttemberg,
Germany. has appointed the first
women station masters in that country.
She has complete charge of station
and directs the incoming and outgoing
trains
The labor reserves in America to
supply the existing demands are
women. Many thousands of them
have already been drawn into industry
for the first time without adequate
provisions for housing and protection
being made for them.
When President Wilson ordered the
Material Guard to the Mexican border
Mrs Charles F. Hughes, Mrs L. NJ.
Garrison and Mrs. George w. Wicker
sham conceived the idea of Women's
American Supply League and are
seeking the cooperation of all women
who have time and money to give for
ward to their saims.