Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-08-11
Of Interest to Women

ing at a convent in Surrey.
Students Of the North Carolina
state normal and industrial college
work on the neighboring farms after
school hours.
A fire in the National Park, n. j.
tabednacle was kept in check few
days ago by the women of the town
forming a bucket brigade.
Seventeen young women are en-
ployed i'm the manufacturing depart
ments of the Union Tool Works at
Terrence, Calf.
1t is stated that every piece of anti
aircraft machinery used to repel Ger
man air raids over England, has been
made by British women.
The Duchess of Marlborough has
announced her candidacy on the pro-
gressiye ticket to fill q vacancy in the
London city council, the oldest legis-
islatiye body in the world.
1t is reported that mobs of German
women at Essen have stoned Dutch
wrokmen who come to take the places
of their husbands and sons in the
Krupp gun factories.
The picturesque qualities Of the
knitted helmets are exemplified in
the portrait bust of a Serbian soldier
modelled by Miss Malvina Hoffman
and recently exhibited in New York.
Mrs. II. Harrison Garrett of Balti-
more has donated her ninety acre
estate to the purpose of blinded Amer
Jean soldiers on their return to this
country.
Miss Elsie l.. Bailey, Philadelphia's
new government probation officer
considers from her experience that
humane treatment is the best cure for
wnvwardnesa
Miss Nancy Homans, of Illumination
Long Island. has a record of three
thousand Jars Of jams and preserves
put up In one season.
"A Japanese girl, sfiss Ehngtys
Miura, Is one of the students Of Mount
Holyoke college who has volunteered
to work throughout the summer on
the college farm
Twenty-Five pairs Of socks is the
total that Mrs. Jane +. Farington.
Westfleld, N. Y. aged ninety eight,
has knitted since the United states
entered the war.
Five million women are EMPLOYED
in Great Britain, all but about half
million working at classified trades
under the jurisdiction of the British
board of trade.
The General Electric company of
Schenectady, N. Y, and Pittsficld.
Mass, has established an equal wage
Tor women in work equalHng the
mems also a fifteen-dollar-a- week
minimum for women.
The orange marmalade and crrrant
jelly served at nearly all the large
beach front hotels at Atlantic Cttv(
are made bv a woman, Mrs. Katherine
B. lange. Pleasantyille, ". ].
Five thousand woman ond rr;rI x
TO take the places of drafted men at
the Eddystone plant of the Midyale
steer and Ordnance company. Twenty
eight hundred are already EMPLOYED.
owing to an insufficient number Of
women workers In the war zone. this
government has lifted the ban against
relatives of soldiers and will permit
sisters of soldiers to enter the service
in France under certain restrictions.
Two of the three sections of the
law enforcement division of the com
mission. of training camp activities,
Washington. are in charge of women.
MRS. Jane Deeter Rippin is director
of protective work for girls and Mrs.
Martha p. Falconer, of reformatories
and detention houses.
Colored women are being recruited
in the student nurse reserve in Phila-
delphia, their acceptance being con-
flrmed by telegram from Miss Han
nah j. Patterson. director in the wo-
mans committee, council of national
defense at Washington
Mrs. Thomas Logan Edwyn. captain
of the Philadelphia motor messengers
has been appointed a member of the
national board of the Red Cross trans
portation bureau since the messengers
Joined the latter organization.
1afy INrs.
woodward of Chestnut Hill. Pa. has
given ten thousand dollars to Bishop
Rhinelander for the purpose of build
ing two churches for the use of men
employed in the shipbulding plants in
and near Philadelphia.
Mrs. Dora r. Barnes, home-d demon
stration agent of the U. S. department
or agriculture and the state agricnl-
tural college in Polk county Fla, has
received first prize, a silve loving cup.
for the best exhibit of special fancy
packs of citrus products at the nation
al orange show.
The factory for the making of army
uniforms connected with the Schuyl-
XIII arsenal, Philadelphia, and but re-
Gently opened. is modern in every way,
containing lunch, rest and recreation
rooms. welfare workers and a hospit-
''iS NOIiGn are eHlDlOyeu ana
they can earn from twelve to thirty
dollars a week according to expert
ness.
70 demonstrate that knitting is not
exclusively girls pastime. the fifth
grade boys of the Breck school. Phil
auelphla, nave made large quilt of
Inany-colored knitted squares under
the direction Of their teacher Miss
Marion Hunevlller. and donated ii to
the surgical ward Of the naval hos
pital.
The number of suburban towns near
Philadelphia, holding Saturday morn.
Ing community markets is increasing
every week. The sale Is from nine un-
I'll eleven o'clock and the vegetables
and fruit are from local war gardens
the produce donated or sold on a
small commission. These markets are
under the management of women of
the food conservation committees.