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Show actors top beets 1 to raise coin forjeals - Teacher and Students Also ' Go on the Farm to Get Peady Money. Aotors stranded In the city will here after be able to rfr an added touch of realism, to their portrayal of rural characters, for even actor must live, and aa the Influenza epidemic haa played auch havoc with their meal tick eta. many of them, according to barker B. Cadr of the local dlvialon 1 of the United States employment bu-- bu-- reau. have aeoured positions and quietly nil oped out Into the country to top beet a until the reopening of -a1 theatres. Htudents and teacher from the high peschools and tha university who did not r wish to go to their homes In various parts of the atate have (on to tha beet flelda to make enough to. pay expenses ex-penses during the enforced vacation, according; to Cady. Soma are picking pick-ing fruit to add to their winter pin money. ' WOMEN FLOORWALKERS. " In accordance with the government's govern-ment's requeat that women take the ; placet of men In nonessential work. is nlsass the latter for poallhMtt wnntr will aid In carrying on tha war, women floorwalkers art to b hired In department stores, according to Mrs. A. Soper. director or tne worn-en't worn-en't division of the employment agency. Women art Just as capable as men. she says, and understand the point of view of the women at well as the men thoppaic Almost all tha elevators In the city , are now run by women, and employers employ-ers everywhere have expressed entire satisfaction with the oiiange. Many business houses have placed women In stenographic positions where they would never have considered the thought before tha war: Only a few employers have tried to secure a woman wom-an stenographer at 176 to take the place of a man who had been receiving receiv-ing $126. Mrs. Boper says. "Once In a while you come across a man with that kind of a small makeup," make-up," declared Mrs. Soper, "but not often. The men who are broadminded do not hesitate to give women the name wages aa the men have been " getting.' . GIRLS' WORK SATISFACTORY. Mrs. Soper will tour tha business establishments of the city next week to investigate tha posit lona which women may fill. Women oilers for railroad tracks have already, been employed In large numbers. Tha rails become rusted and break easily when taken up if they are not oiled at Intervals. This work I Is not hard for tha girls or women. Mrs. Soper has placed forewomen Iff machine ahopa and they are proving nri than capable, the says. jHrs. Alloa Wlnslow, who formerly 1 hind charge of tha elevators at Walk-I Walk-I er's dry goods store, hat already I branched out In another Una of men's I work and It now driving her own taxl-I taxl-I CBD- |