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Show What some women are doing for themselves is illustrated in the following fol-lowing items gathered from various sources. Women are now permitted to reg ister as students in the dental school at Columbia University. Statistics show that tens of thousands thou-sands of women of America live on less than $6 a week. Mrs. Frances Weston, of New York, has the peculiar occupation of managing prize fighters. Women students at Oregon Agri-tultural Agri-tultural College are superior to men in scholastic attainment. Grace Lee, a Chinese girl, was salutatorian of the 1916 class of the Yakima, Wash., high school. An Ialian girl worked in the lo cal mines at Tyler, Pa., for a whole year without her sex becoming known. Miss Margaret Kennedy, a musically musi-cally inclined girl of Skomakawa, Cul., is paying for her education by crawfishing. The experiment of training women wo-men for work as gardeners in the Birmingham, England, parks has proved so satisfactory that their wages have been increased. Women are in a majority in nine occupations musicians or teachers of music, boarding-house keepers, housekeepers, laundresses, nurses, servants, stenographers and typists. |