The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-13
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
interesting Notes of the Feminine
Sex the World Over.


Porto Rican women have been re
fused suffrage.
Girls are now being employed a.
messengers in Canada.
Two women are promoting ath
letics at Sing Sing prison.
Women suffer far less from self
consciousness than men.
Miss Ruth Low recently attained
the height of II 1000 feet in wal
aeroplane.
Miss Lucy Butler has been post
mistress at Hounslow, England, 70,
the last twenty-five years.
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium has
been decorated with the war cross
Of the French government.
Mrs. H. L. Garland of Opelousas
La, has been a servant in one family
for sixty-three years.
Women members of the Chippewa.
yan Indian tribe can carry or haul
as much as two men.
More than 100000 women are
now employed in the trades and pro-
fessions in Great Britain.
English women are being urged
to take up farming in that country
so that the crops can be saved.
Many Irish women now act as
master of hounds so as to keep UP
this popular sport in that country.
Mrs. George Swain, who celebrated
her one hundredth birthday on May
%, was the first school teacher in
Madison, wis.
Female munition workers in France
now number 100000, of which 26,293
are employed in state factories.
Mrs. Charles o. Bell of Denver,
who recently celebrated her sixty
sixth birthday, is the largest dahlia
grower in Colorado.
Eight girls acted as life guards
during the graduating exercises of
the Salvation Army at Coney Island
last month.
Miss Lenore Cawker, Milwaukee's
dog catcher, has asked
that her salary of $500 a year be
increased to $1,000.
Mrs. Emma Werntz and Mrs. Clara
Lehr, who have reached the age of
50, are the Oldest twins in the state
of Pennsylvania.
The 10000 women and girls in the
Troy, N. Y, collar factories have
been granted an increase in pay of
10 per cent.
Miss Helen Swedblom operates an
bus between Hoquiam and
Humtulips, Ore, making one round
trip of fifty-four miles each day.
Legislators in the house of dele
gates of Virginia have, for the third
time, put their thumbs down on
higher education for women.
Seventeen women from eight states
md one from Smyrna, Turkey, were
graduated from the Womens Medi- |
,al College of Philadelphia last
month.
No kissing, no hugging, no swear
ng and at least SO per week pay is |
he ultimatum that has been sent |
lround to men who employ stenogra-
,hers in Boston.
Mrs. Charles f. Hughes, wife of
supreme Court Justice Hughes,
laims that she will never give her
onsent to her husband accepting
he nomination for the presidency.
The Grand Duchess Marie of Lux
mberg attends all functions in full
tate and also insists on a large
scort at all times, though the army
f her country numbers only 200
len.
The Cars second daughter, the
7-year-old Grand Duchess Tatiana,
5 one of the richest heiresses in
he world. When she was one week
Id the Car placed $5,OO0000 to her
redit.
Miss Elaine Jenkins is the only
oman railway chairman in Great
ritain. She is the daughter of the
tie Lord Glentawe and has taken
er fathers place at the head of the
wansea & Mumples railway.
Sarah Bernhard who, as a result
her marriage with Jacques Da-
lala, Greek member of her COM
any, in 1882, became a Greek sub
ct, has resumed her French ma