The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-08-01
KEEPING AN EYE
ON WOMENFOLKS

The Belgian senate has unani
mously endorsed and adopted a uni
ycrrai suffrage bill. the right 20
vote being extended 10 every citizen
81 years Of age and having resided
In the country six months
The American Young woman's
Christian Association has just sent
to Europe a commission Of Ameri.
can women social and industrial cx,
perts 10 study and investigate social
conditions there. especially as those
conditions affect women. The com.
mission has just arrived In London.
Its membership Includes Mrs. Irene
Andrew. representing the American
Association for Labor LEGISLATION:
Miss Nellie Schwartz. representing
the consumerp' League: Miss Drlsr.
representing tbs women's Trade
Union League. and Mrs. James s.
cushman. chairman of the National
Y. W. g. n council.
Dr. Mary Thompson Stevens has
been appointed as general warden
Of the Detroit House OF Correction.
by Mayor Jim couzens. DIR. Stew.
ems. a graduate Of the University
Of Michigan. has been active 10 civic
work and long served as n director
on the prison board. she has al
ready Instituted 20 important re-.
forms in the conduct OF the prison.
Miss Marian Halnes. suffrage
organizer In Florida, and originator
80
center idea. addresses the following
remarks TO members OF the New
League of Women Voters:
Most members OF the League OF
Women Voters have won the do
nestle shriners' 52d degree at the
they are putting in time shifts at
the community kitchens learning
how TO cooperate with boards OF
health. and boards Of trade. to keep
homes and cities sanitary, to con
serve food production. manufacture
and transportation for the eommun'
ity."
Country school teachers In the
State OF Washington are supplied
with cottage homes OF their own in
stead OF boarding round" with farm.
ers' families. A woman. Josephine
G. Preston. is state superintendent
OF public instruction. and at her
suggestion the rural districts tried
the plan OF building small cottages
near each rural school to serve as
a permanent home for the teacher.
Such cottages now exist in EOS dis
tricta, and the effect has been to
obtain better trained and more e.
ficient teachers who remain long
enough to learn community needs
and become valuable citizens.
The United States employment
service reports that there are now
between 100000 and 100000
women wage.earners in the United
States.
Mrs. Marion Horwi,z OBrien.
mayor OF Moore Haven. Fla. became
a citizen when her town was hand
full OF houses, without railroad.
by developing drainage operations
she opened thousands of acres to
agriculture and the town doomed to
n city. electing her first mayor. She
Is also president OF a stock farm, "A
lumber and n building company. vice
president and manager OF the Moore
Haven bank. And now her town has
"all modern improvements"
The annual convention of the
National Woman's Trade Union
league. held In Philadelphia. June 9.
viii be addressed by Mary Ander.
son and Rose Schneiderman. return.
ed delegates to the Paris peace con.
ference. representing women work
era. Mrs. Mary Macarthur. English
woman leader, and Miss Mary Van
KleeclS, head of the Women in In.
dustry Service of the L. $. Depart
ment of Labor will also he speakers
Tho leagues object is to standard.
ize and improve the conditions OF
employment and wages OF working
women.
Chicago's Woman's City club. un.
der Mrs Edward Bcmis, has under
taken great fair of races" or ex.
hibition of the industrial and artistic
work of Chicago's foreign.born citl.
zens to be held during June at the
Coliseum. Each of 81 races repre-.
scented In the city will have its booth
of exhibits and even display OF It's
typical dishes and cooking. The pro-
ceeds of the fair will be used to es-
tablish n permanent Americanizati ton
institute i'm Chicago.