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Show I- Capable Women and I Their Daily Doings 1 ' - SOME of the'best operators In the cm-ploy cm-ploy of the Western Union Telegraph Company arc women. Young widows predominate at the marriage mar-riage altar in England. Mrs. Carrie J. Pucgner Is the only woman wom-an barber In Baltlmorc. Glrls working on the farms In New Jersey Jer-sey arc being paid from $1.25 to 51.75 per day ana their board. I Quccn Elena of Italy has given several thousand dollars of her personal per-sonal funds to help women workers In Italy. . With a membership member-ship of oer COO self - supporting girls, tho United Club has opened a f fine club houso in New York city. in PI j Women school teachers in New York city are demanding a bonus of ?200 for their last year's work. One of the largest garages in Washlng-i Washlng-i ton, D. C, employs negro women as cleaners clean-ers and washers. Women employed In tho munition factories fac-tories of Great Britain aro compollcd to wear a khaki uniform. If the war ends this year It will leave tho German population with nineteen women for every man. 1 Tho Duchess of Westmoreland is doing excellent work In France in behalf of British wounded soldlors. A Detroit Judge recently handed down a decree that women have a perfect right to smoke c'-garcttcs tho same as men. . There Is not a houso In Dlarbekir without with-out from one to five Armenian maidservants, maidserv-ants, even the humblest shopkeepers having hav-ing one. Several women In the State of Washington Washing-ton are working as station agents on the various railroads In that State. Miss Ituth F. Stone, formerly managing 1 editor of the iicvcianu Medical Journal, has resigned her position to tako up war work. Maude Adams, the actress, has donated several valuable, pieces -of her Jewelry tp kbe sold for tho benefit of tho Tted Cross. Schools for the Instruction of young women in the selling of railroad tickets havo been opened in New York, Chicago and Washington. The United Railways Company of Baltimore Balti-more has opuncd a school for conductor-ettes, conductor-ettes, with the idea of placing them on tliuir cars. Girls employed in the Bureau of Engraving Engrav-ing in Washington havo formed a union which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The first woman in Ihe United States to work as an inspector of wireless apparatus is Miss Abby Morrison, who 13 an export In her line. Mlsa Jcanclto Rankin. Congrcsswoman from Montana, has announced . her caln- 4 didacy for a scat In the United States Senate Sen-ate to succeed Senator Walsh. Nearly all tho public utilities In England aro being run by wgmen. and they have even invaded the police and fire departments depart-ments in many English cities. . It Is estimated tnat there are 121 women between the ages of twenty and forty-four in England to every 160 men. whllo France has 12J women lo every eleven' men. Mrs. J. A. Smuts, better known as May Yohe. the actress. Is now on her way from South Africa to France, where she will serve in the British Red Cross. War experience in the employment of women as bank clerks has convinced British Brit-ish bankers that women arc able to keep business secrets quite as well as men. The largest group of women In uniform and forming part ofthe war machine are tho army nurses. lO.coo of whom arc now prepared to carry their hospitals with them Into tho field of battle Mrs. James Wil son, lormeriy cnei to the lato Queen Victoria, Is now In this country giving cooking lessons lo housewives. Tho American Federation of Labor La-bor advocates tho paying of women the same wages as paid men for similar simi-lar work. Morct than CO.000 women volunteers h are now encased 3 In work directly connected with the German army in tho field. The- electric freight trucks used by the Pennsylvania Railroad on Its piers in No York city aro operated by women. They work eight hours a day and arc paid the same wages as men. More than 500 girls have already supplanted sup-planted men in clerical positions in St. Louis banks and arc making good in their new positions. The bankers claim they are more efficient than men clerks. |