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Show MODERN .Madame Horthy, wife of Admiral Ad-miral Horthy, Regent of Hungary, has started large-scale winter relief re-lief work for the people of her country. She organized the prompt and effective system of distribution distribu-tion it employs and personally supervises su-pervises every phase of the fund's activities. The relief workers have headquarters head-quarters in the Royal Palace on Buda's Castle Hill. In this suite of rooms gifts are sorted, packed, and distributed. Not a penny of the donations Is spent on the administration ad-ministration of this fund. She has a large staff working with her, most of them volunteers. Miss Ruth Marks, supervisor of the quotation room of the New York Stock exchange, is the only woman bearing the title of department depart-ment head in the vast personnel of the Exchange. Her responsibility responsibil-ity is to furnish accurate up-to-the-minute "bid and asked" quotations quo-tations by direct wire service to members. There are one hundred young women on her staff. Before joining the Stock Exchange she was an instructor in the traffic department of a telephone company. Clara B. Welles of Chicago is one of a small group of craftswo-men craftswo-men turning out marvelous things in silver. Some of her work has been shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ' Miss Mildred Pfister, a registered register-ed professional chemical engineer, is employed by a firm of consultants consult-ants on water conditioning. She is a member of trie local section of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Ester Barny, a member of the staff of the American Mission Hospital at Bahrein, Arabia, is the only woman physician there. Recently Re-cently she received the honorary degree of doctor of science from the New Jersey College- for Women. |