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Show Women In Austria. A coiihus of Austria-Hungary takes place this year, and tho minister of public pub-lic instruction has announced that girls and women, if they can prove themselves them-selves competent, may apply for the place of enumerators. Tho emancipation emancipa-tion of women in Austria is well advanced. ad-vanced. One-third of all tho post and telegraph clerks and all tho telephone clerks, as well as the teachers in girls' schools, are women. Lately a lady oculist, ocu-list, Fran Dr. Kerschbauiner, of Salzburg, Salz-burg, was allowed to open a hospital of her own. School teachers are well paid, their salaries ranging from 70 to '100. A largo proportion como from noble families and those of officers and government govern-ment officials. Tho position of governess, govern-ess, on tho contrary, is much disliked. London News. i |