Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-01
What Women Are Doing.

More than 4S per cent of immigrants
from Italy during the past year were
women. This is an increase of nearly
Is per cent over the pre-war period.
Mile. Adrienne Baland, known as the
leading ace" of the French air women,
will make tour of South America,
representing her country as aerial mis-
>sionery.
In Siam many women are employed
in army workshops: in factories and
on the railways and roads, where they
arc paid the same rates as men for
equal work.
More than II per cent Of the 562
firms questioned by the National In
dustrial board report satisfactory re-
suits from the employment Of female
labor.
A special ship will be chartered dur
ing the first week in June to carry
American war mothers to view the bat
tlefields and cemeteries of France and
Belgium.
Before the war the five principal Wo-
men employing industries were the
textile industry, that Of personal ap-
parel, food products, tobacco products
and hand and footwear.
The recently formed League Of >Wo-
men voters Of Canton, Ohio. promises
to enter actively into civic affairs for
the purpose Of cleaning up" certain
undesirable social conditions which en-,
ist in that city.
Miss Kathleen Lawlcr. who has been
acting as Mrs. Harding's social secre-
tary since President -elect Hardlngs S
nomination, will be retained IN the
same capacity when Mrs. Harding be-
comes the first lady of the land.
The deaths of Horace E. Dodge and
John +. Dodge, brothers and owners OF
the automobile plant bearing their
mamie, places two girls at the head OF
the mammoth plant which employs
more than $4,000 persons. The girls,
Miss Isabel Dodge and Mrs. James
Cromwell, are cousins, and the respon-
sibility of operating the plant falls up
on their shoulders.
SO great has been the demand from
women for enrolment at Cornell uni
versity that the college authorities
have been compelled to set the limit at
1000. :
pullc- of South Bend, Ind, has been
business manager of the official maga-
zine of the Fratcrnal Order of Eagles.
1T is very rare to find an old maid
in any of the mill villages in South
Carolina, because practically all the
women in these villages marry at any
carly age.
Mrs. Henrietta NJ. Kir&' of kinGsVille,
Texas. owns some 1,25O.O00 acres OF
farm land in Texas, which is nearly as
large as the total area Of the state OF
Delaware.
For every 1000 men between the
ores of IS and As years in France
1.o3O women, in England 1,175, in Italy
1.o2S. in Germany 1910 and in Austria
Hungary 1880.
Mrs. Vincent Astor's name has been
added 10 those of other prominent wo-
mon as sponsor for a boxing tourna-
ment to be held in New York city at an
early date.
Seventeen religious faiths and twen-
ty nationalitics arc represented among
the membership Of the recently organ
lied Young Women's Christian assocl-
alton in Rio de Janiero.
Twcnty-four American girls nave
sailed for Belgium, where they Will
study the silk industry in order TO re-
turn and take charge Of large SILK
factory now being erected in Virginia.
Mrs. Adelaide 3. ,Clapp, aged 80
years, and recently initiated into the
Order Of the Eastern Star at Bethel
Conn, is the Oldest woman in the Unit
cd States to ever be received into the
order.