Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18

w TASHlNGTON, D. c., June IA unique en-
M plOyment for women has recently been
discovered by London firm with large
delivery system. 1t has put women in charge Of
its horse hospital. Between thirty and forty
patients are received at the hospital day, and
the women do all the nursing, which in this in
cludes cleaning, grooming and feeding, wei! as
the administering of medicines prescribed by the
veterinary surgeon.
The nurses are enthusiastic about their work.
THE animals" the superintendent asserts ARE
grateful and companionable. We do not baby the
horses, as some think, but somehow we reform the
worst cases of temper and my assistant can do
anything they like with fractions nervous and
suffering horses. l have doubt that women
will want to keep with this work after the war.
But nothing that the European women are do
ing should surprise these days Their versatility
is surprising. Women have replaced not only
in the manufacture of war material but in the
larger Industrial LIFE In the metal trades women
laborers may be found heating and charging fur
naces, working hydraulic presses, discharging
trucks and wagons and Welding brass. No trade is
without them. They cut metal pens; they make
chains and accessories for bicycles; they mold
bricks they build military barracks; they manufac-
ture sugar, and they construct compasses and, in
Paris, they are making electric lamps.
These are only few of their war activities.
For the encouragement of American women who
are seeking opportunities to help win the war, the
WomenS committee OF the Council or National De-
fenso has undertaken elaborate research of the
work done by foreign women-a research that has
developed many interesting facts One of the most
interesting of these is the fact that toward the sub
stitution of in the places of each bellig
erent has displayed different attitude.
France the first country to realize that
women would have to be relied upon to keep the
country alive behind the lines while the men
fighting at the front. The Frenchman has always
had profound respect for the business acumen of
the Frenchwoman, that there was not so much
native prejudice to overcome. Women were hustled
into jobs formerly occupied only by quietly and
a matter of course. Apparently the Frenchman
has forgotten that there ever were any employment
restrictions account of The French trans
portation system is run almost entirely by
women Women, clad in long black coats and
waterproof hats, their boxes slung across their
shoulders, carry the mail. They make glass, they
farm they work in the leather industries, perform
ing all the various processes from washing the
green skins to applying the final coat OF varnish;
they operate coke ovens and they make shells and
lead pencils and wine.
The other day. tall clad in a painters
blouse found painting the street lamps OF
Paris occasionally standing off to inspect her work
and humming cheerfully all the while.
The professions have also been thrown open
to FrenchWomen. This not such an easy
victory, however, since France has never been par
ticularly cordial to women trying for the profess
sions. Madame Curie is one conspicuous exception,
but in France you will often hear that 1T was NJ
Curie and not his wife who discovered radium
But now there large number OF women sclen-
lists working in French Laboratories, while the
government is encouraging women to take up the
study of chemistry, bacteriology and electricity
Moreover, for the first time last year woman
spoke from the tribunal of the Academy or Sclence.
She was Dr. Bonet-Henry, and she described
new method of dressing burns with mixture OF
gutta -percha and parrafn.
Women lawyers are also increasing in France.
There are now forty-four women practicing at the
Paris bar. One of them recently achieved fame by
securing a reversal of judgment in the OF
certain Ammanites condemned to death by mill
tary court-martial
Nothing has proved too difficult for the French
woman every employment barrier has gone down
before her. Recently it was accepted as perfect
" natural occurrence that two young women, for
merly dressmakers, should take up the strange and
hazardous pursuit of cleaning chimneys. At dress
making they earned three francs day; they are