Show r pe several veral weeks ago about seventy five women applied for positions on the ch chicago cago police force but were informed that they were too fat by the medical inspector ii who instructed them how to 0 1 train down their weight and asked thern them to apply again later the same aimen women came back a few days ago and although most of them had succeeded in reducing their weight somewhat the re were only three whose weight was within the specified limit the e examined xam ined ascribes the failure of the majority of the candidates to their unwillingness to abstain from eating candy an t adaptation of the knotted string which which was used by bv tho the ancient peruvians an as a means of communication has been li en suggested for the use of the blind bily nd elch each knot being arranged either afee alone or in combination to represent a le alfe b r of the alphabet the blind can r I 1 to read these strings by p passing issing them between their fingers ahas 1 has been decided that thai wolen women of theu S burau bur au of en arpin graing i g and arif printing odrig do not come coine under the operation of the district of columbia eight haur h zur law therefore district officials will not interfere with the overtime over or time work now in P progress in getting git ting out the emergency currency de necessary by the war in europe at atone one of the largest council held held m ta many years chippewa indians indiana of the bad river tribe in wisconsin recently heintl voted unanimously in favor of woman suffrage one of the indian oraton declared that oo no indian should oppose the right of our women to vote because 41 they are more likely to vote for the real welfare of our people than the men the first women students ever sen t by the chinese to the united stares to receive a university I 1 education are miss Y T law and miss F Y liu travelling Tra velling with them were twenty seven chinese young men who ahn will enter universities in the eastern states with four exceptions the students are graduates of the canton christian college and were select ed after competitive examinations they are being educated at the expense of the new republic miss law enters mount holyoke university and miss liu studies medicine at ann arbor Mich michigan Mi chagan agati the young raw are to be distributed divri buted among the best be st colle colleges of the unlaced states I 1 having eaten glass carpet tacks and knife blades for several years without seemingly feeling any ill III effects george columbus ind is seriously ill because of eating too much pork and add beans and had to be to the poor asylum eats glass he h has as made 01 a meal of carbet facts and then bitten bitten the blide from a pocket inive after A which he chewed and swallowed it but all of these unusual articles of diet never seemed mohave to have any ill effects mme ame sarah Bern bernhardt hirdt has declared the present war in europe to be ehte holiest hollest ho liest war roan man has baa ever been en in and that the french soldini sol soldiery dili s are dying for fo r humanity or the end of all war for universal peace she expressed deep regret over the fact that hat she cannot gu to the fro front t to fight mrs martha burnham nother mother of the famous gold bady is still living at the age of 82 in california in the days of 49 when the gold rush to california was on she was the only white woman for miles in the mining section and the rough miners frequently dropped gold nuggets into her babas hand and h when they came to play for a while with him tills this baby has grown to manhood mainhood maii hood now and has babies of his own A section hand band lif in the employ of an ohio traction company stopped mowing weeds some time ago to chase a hall half grown rabbit while engaged in n the e pursuit a fellow laborer slashed him with a scythe the traction company which carries its own insurance for employees decided that the man was not injured in the course of employment but in an effort to reduce the high i cost of living and compromised the cass by paying his doctor bill the state industrial commission has upheld the companas comp anys decision mis florence porter has been male maie assistant probation officer to work under her father who is probation officer of the supreme court ot of the district ol of columbia although only 16 years old she is a high school graduate and has become quite familiar with the work through helping her lather father |