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Show Capable . Women and Theif Doings' Klmura Komaka was the first woman to make suffrage speeches in Japan. There are over SO.0OJ registered women nurses In the United States. Mine. Curie, dls-covcrcr dls-covcrcr of polonium lM-.SA und. co-dlscoverer ctf .''MkI radium, is an ardent ggf 'i x suffragist. ?lv ' in New York Stato '!rJ there are over-1.0SG.0W over-1.0SG.0W women over Slsslh twenty-one years of jS age who arc unmar- vlrajsii married or widowed ' ' Mrs. Wood row &iMm Wilson, wifo of W$WwJiM& Prcsldcht Wilson. f&XXm has consented ao W0'rMi ' head the Girl Scouts of America. PjllMsM Dr. Caroline Fin-- ML,t- rtiotc ley Is at the head MME. CURIE of America's first unit of women physicians phy-sicians now in Franco. Girls in Eastport, Me., are earning" as high as 52 a week packing sardines. Princess Mary, of England, has made a 'collection of programmes of war enter- tainments. She has attended oor 100 since the war begun. Girls are employed as messengers In all the municipal offices in Portland, Ore. Saloonkeepers In Hartlepool, Eng., refuse re-fuse to sell Intoxicating liquors to women, Elsie Ylck, a Chinese girl, is in the t horns of the JSlegfeld Follies. Eighty nor cent of the women eligible to vote in tho United Slates are married. Dr. Mabel 11. F. Bancrot. of Orange. V. J., has been appointed medical Inspector Inspec-tor for the Welfare Commission In Paris. Oklahoma coal inino operators arc replacing re-placing their men workers called away to war with women and girls. of the four brushmaklng unions In K-iglnnd, only one. tho Amalgamated Society So-ciety of Brushmakers, has admitted women as members. Two shingle mills in tho State of Washington Wash-ington report that women between the ages of thirty-five and forty make the best wo risers. Miss A boy P. Morrison, a graduate of Hunlor College, has Joined tho United Slates Navy as a wireless operator. Thousands of Red Cross nurses who have married their patients have been asked to return to hospitals to liolp win the war. i The employment of women In the leather trade In Birmingham, England, has Increased In-creased over thirty per ' cent slnco the war began. A largo Eastern piano manufacturer Is now employing women and glrl3 to take the places vacated byAklllod mechanics me-chanics on account of the war. Marion Cappell, recently drawn as a Juror to try Police Chief Ilcaly. of. Chl- cago. Is the first woman ever called to Jury vservlce in that city. Mrs. Elizabeth Kemps, now seventy-eight seventy-eight years of age. has been organist of the Sandy Parish Church In Bedfordshire. England, for fifty-eight years. Marguerite Chaffee, who plays tho part of Marlon Summer, a society girl, in "Tho Boomerang." Is a cousin of the late General Gen-eral Adna Chaff. e, who served In the Spanish-American- war. Miss Anno Morgan, daughter of tho lafe J. Picrpont Morgan, has be-n decorated deco-rated by tho French Minister of Agrkul- fZZmmzg&ZBZ lure In recognition of JW her services for tin- p "fsellfiTSfeig people of devastated -rSMlYi areas of Franco. "2i&?Ffcfe: SC3h In the shops of the jSS Grand Trunk Rail- way, at Stratford. 1 Ontario, tho funu'e . & employes have bc.-n vwgy directed to w ear f& overalls so as to l s- y'- a sen the danger of ac- (w ' cldent by catching Cry clothing in niaehln- lr An official report from tho Controller HIS5 AUlJE MORGAN of Great Britain shows how dependent England has become be-come upon the farm labor of women. In one county alono over 1,500 women arc employed In farm labor of some sort Miss Roberta MacAdams, newly elected member of Parliament In Alberta, Canada. Ik a trained nurse, and when she Is not busy with her legislative duties she Is on duly In the Canadian Military Hospital at Orpington, |