The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-06
ARE MODERN WOMEN
SHELVING THE MEN?
ENTERING ALL PROFESSIONS
AND CALLINGS. ARE EVEN
STUDYING HEAVENS.

A few short years ago the sweet
girl graduate closed the gates OF COL
Ilege and walked out into the future,
with perhaps a vague idea OF teaching
: for few years and then-matrimony
or, as the majority wanted and did
STAYED at home until Prince Charming
knocked-the domesticity. A few err
rant ones succeeded in building ca
reers for themselves in some literary,
artistic or nursing field.
Today feminism has ruled otherwise
for the college graduate, For example,
out of 104 women OF 1921 graduating
class of Radcliffe twenty-four occupa-
tions are represented in the census OF
careers chosen by the girls.
Teaching claims 81 per cent; secre-
tarial work, 9 per cent; high educa-
ton, 7 per cent; business, E per cent:
social work, per cent; commercial
art, per cent The other 81 per cent
are to teach music, enter medicinal or
nursing fields, newspaper work, labo
ratory work, physical education, med
ical dietetcs, scientific farming, zoolog
ical research or the theatrical field.
-Four per cent of the girls have already
married.
Our grandmothers would have rails
ed their hands in horror at the mere
thought of higher endeavor for wo
men. The home was the place for her
and there she was supposed to stay.
But these twenty-four occupations
do not represent all that women are
doing today; things that have never
been accomplished by women before.
Field Is Widening.
Such headlines as the following are
worthy of note and serious thought:
To Graduate First Woman Engi-
neer.
First Woman United States Prosecu-
tor Is Sworn for Her Duty Here.
Woman Is Acting Speaker of House
for First Time
Woman Astronomer Honored.
Woman Wins Highest Honor i'll
Law Study at Cambridge.
Women as Detectives
Woman Better Dentist Than Hus-
band.
Nine Currie Receives Degree at
Wellesley
Miss Frances Barbara Hosfeld, of
Clarks Summit, a suburb of Scranton,
Pa, is the first woman ever to attempt
and complete the college course in in
dustrial engineering. She has just been
graduated from State college. She has
received a number of attractive offers
to assist in supervising male and fe-
male labor employment in industrial
concerns near her home town.
Miss Mary Rutter Towle is the first
woman in the state to hold the office
of assistant United States attorney.
Miss Towle was admitted to the bar
in 1912 and has since been a member
of the firm of Rembaugh & Towle, of
los Broadway. She is one of the two
women members of the Legislative
committee of the Citizens union.
For the first time in the history of
the house of representatives a woman,
and that woman, Miss Alice Robert
son, republican representative from
Oklahoma, presided as speaker.
Wins Honor in Astronomy.
Miss Annie J. Cannon, of the Har-
ward astronomical observatory, dis
Coverer of three new stars, has just
received from Groningen university in
Holland an honorary doctors degree
in mathematics and astronomy.
From Cambridge college, England,
comes the story of the success of Miss
K. Smell. To her falls the distinction
of being at the head of the law tripos
above all the men.
England is also employing women
to considerable extent as detectives
Sherlock Holmes and Scotland Yard
will soon have rival in the Mrs. S.
! H. These women are sometimes able
to bring in information from girl pris-
oners that men would not be able to
get.
! There is dentist out in Cincinnati
who does not want his wife to steal
his practice Mrs. Anna B. Chase is
proving to be better man" than he.
She was awarded gold medal at the
commencement exercises of the Ohio
College of Dental Surgery for the best
general examination average land 4
silver one for the best work with sill
cate filings. How will you men pa.
tients like woman dentist?
Nine. Curie has added one more
honor to her already crowded list. We'll
lesley college awarded the only hon
orary degree ever offered and Nine.
| Curie, co-discoverer of radium, receiv-
ed the degree of doctor of science.
If the rate of progress is proper
tomato during the next decade what
promise our women are holding out
for us! Men will have to hustle if they
don't want to be crowded out of their
metier-New York World