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Show LADIES' CORNER. W'hai's a si civ t od f 'i. any way. ; If nut 10 tell? Mx. Both Mrs. Mary Ma pes Pod-e and Kate Field tle phonographs instead ni dictating their matter to stenographers. ! Mrs. Kales, wife .f a trantcr at Sprinvilie. Ohio, has just iven 1 Idrtli to her twenty-fourth child. There are five seis of twins. She was married at 1-1. The nhlest j child is '27. and thirteen of them arc living. j Government clerks in Washing- ! ton numher ahout 1 T i M X of whom ' 0.000 arc females and 10.000 are within the civil service rules. Women first entered the depart mental service since the war anil they now numher more than a third of the whole. A few draw salaries of from $1,00(1 to 1,S0D, liiou-h the great majority receive less than 1000. A niece or Ex-President Pierce is in one of the departments and the widow of (leniral Picket! of (leltysherjj; fame and other like ex-Con fi 'derates from the South. Worn en were li r t i nl roil ro-il need to count money. They proved quicker and more accurate than men. |