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Show IAP WOMEN TAKE MEN'S JOBS Wages Range From Ten to Twenty-Five Twenty-Five Cents a Day Actresses Best Paid. Tokyo. That Japanese women constantly con-stantly nro tnking u larger part In tho nctlvltles of the empire Is shown by recent Investigations. As In Europe, so In Jnpnn, women nre filling positions posi-tions formerly exclusively held by men. There are 4,000 women working under un-der tho railway burenu, most of them ticket sellers, cashiers nnd nccount-nnts, nccount-nnts, nnd 0,000 women find employment employ-ment In the cigar nnd clgnrctte factories fac-tories of tho government tobneco monopoly. mo-nopoly. Their wnges rnnge from 10 to 23 cents a day. Male clerks In banks nnd mercantile houses constantly are being replaced by women, who recelvo $5 to $15 a month. Actresses receive the highest wnges pnld to women In Japan, but their clothes uro expensive, nnd so Nicy aro financially In no better position than .the more humble workers. |