Show WOMEN SOLONS COME UP FROM HUMBLE PLACES PLAGES BERLIN BERLI Feb 28 By A. A P. P P.-of P. Of the members o of the new German reichstag three thirty-three are women This ts Is- Is I 66 per per cent o of the he tot total l. l or a a little more than in the previous ous short lived parliament where the percentage was 57 The Socialists Social Social- lets furnish the largest con contingent Un gent fo of their delegation 13 per ler cent are women P Perhaps thi th tha most interesting woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man man is J Johanna oha na Reitze who was I first a servant girl kirl then a printers printer's assistant still later a So Socialist party party party par par- ty secretary and now tarlan Another interesting character char char- acte acter is Fr Frau u Ansorge who started out as a textile worker when she ahe was 13 then became successively coffee picker shipping clerk and I newsstand saleswoman Only three of ot the the wom women n parliamentarians par par- had the advantage ad of ofa a full college course ourse They are Dr Gertrude Baeumer a member of ot the party who recently lectured lectured lec lee in the United States Dr Ma Marie rie ne Elisabeth Lueders also a Democrat Dam Dem- and identified with the International Inter Inter- I national Women's Yom ens en's League f for Peace i and Freedom and Dr Elsa Matz I member of or the German Peoples People's party varty Elfriede n nek was a seamstress before she went into politics Min Uin- and Marie larie Were both Industrial workers in I their younger days School teachers furnish a rather formidable delegation Frau f Hedwig Dransfeld Christine Clara Mende l Elsa Matz and Margarethe Margarethe Margarethe Mar- Mar Behm were formerly teach teach- ers Elise Eliso Bartels and Lore A Aes describe themselves es as plain housewives house house- I wives |