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Show CapableJW' omen and Their Daily Doings STEAMSHIPS running out of Tacoma, in tho Stito of Washington, arc employing em-ploying women as oiIcr3. A California sugar refinery employs women as testers. Tho average rato of pay paid women tlmo workers In England Is J6.0S a week. More than J.000 women aro now at work on the surface and subway systems In New York city. Several women aro employed as draughtsmen by the Iowa State Highway DcparUnent Miss Loulsita Wood, daughter of General Gen-eral Leonard Wood, Is famous as a long distanco horso rider. It in estimated that it , ra during the present ' ty&&jMffiMM& year moro than 500,00) s9ljm women will act as lSMEnjp farm managers. Wlfmk&3QttSF The TJallimoro dlvi- fMvft sion of tho Pcnnsyl- mLj 'NKwul vania Railroad has KB Eju 117 women doing work Y$01 "TSEjfcS exclusively dono by Sf&L ! men a year ago. 5ff The -latest field for WTf $ , : women's work in g L . ' J England is helping to &uxiimta EH '' provido eyes for tho yi .voop fa i army and navy by ' making lenses and prlams. 1 Tho further drafting of clergymen In England makes women preachers a pos- 1 sibility. 1 Tho Quartermaster's Department in i Milwaukee hns four passenger autorao- 1 biles operated by women. A unit of Stanford University girls arc going to France to caro for fatherless I babies. i , Among Uic posaiblllUes of tho future is 1 the employment of women as railway mail clerk3. Only women with men folk in the service are allowed to make gas masks for the American army. The large estate in Trcland owned by the Countess of Droghcda Is boing farmed by her and hor young' son. Sho docs all the ploughing. When her brother was called away to war Miss Eunice Malonoy, of Ladysmlth. Wis,, took his Job aa a linotype operator In a newspaper office. The women membors of tho Sioux Indian tribe located in tho Standing Pock reservation reser-vation in Xorth Dakota havo organized a Hed Cross auxiliary. Dr. Bertha M. Clark, recently elected president of the University of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Alumni Society, Is the first woman to hold that office. In order to release men for war service President Wilson has issued an order that women shall be appointed elevator operators oper-ators in all government buildings. Mrs. Anna Hcllcn, of Seattle, Wash., tvho recently knit one sock In two hours ind eighteen minutes, haa tho dlsUnctlon , 3f being the champion knitter of tho S'orthwest Tho telephone companies- in Kansas City i iro using women to hunt wire trouble, as ( tvcll aa using them in their equipment ; IcparUncnts to repair cords and lnsula-:Ion. lnsula-:Ion. i Miss Emma S. Lansing and Katherlne ( Lansing, sisters of Secrctiry of State ( Lansing, both of whom aro lied Cross i nurses in France, havo been under, fire from tho Gorman guns. f Miss Annio Swonson, of Marinette. Wis., i :ommlsflioncd as an ensign in the Salva- c Ion Army, is" on her way to France, where r she will toko charge of a hut near tho fir- c ng line, M. r Flora Snndcs, tho only English woman ( In tho Serbian arm , and who holds a com- ,, j mission as Sergeant Major, has rejoined her company after spending a few montnJ f; In her homo country. ; Miss Maiy Sclloy. of Nashville. Tcnn.. f . has established a woman's department in rtr ono of Noshvlllo's largest banks, vthero L she is training women to lake the placJ of men called away for war duty. i India has regular vigilance committcJ I whose duty it is to Inform tho women tho neighborhood of the approach of tea hour for worship. They also sco that u women are properly dressed for the Mr-vice. Mr-vice. Lady Diana Man- ncrs, ono cf Eng- ii , 7-rjr-j land's most beautiful 5 SaljiSflK' 1 women, is taking a t2)HP' course In nursing so that sho can go to BXP 91 t" Franco to nurso the PKPr JKr wounded soldiers. SHIi taken tho places of ilKjPjHf men in the Marathon mBPBK Electric Company in SSSStJt ' Vi Wausau. Wis,, but HggaSa J rcfuso to wear over- irPPPsSASR ii? lIls, saying that they J&ncJ5 iro tob awkward. "V".3 , Over 1.000 women havo already cnr0" N 'or work on government contracts at i Ivo centres established by tho Advwor Council of tho Quartermaster's Corps vomcn wiii earn from flS to a wce. Tho Amorican Society of Mechanical w rlnccrs has adopted resolutions rcqueJi ho colleges and technical schools ol , ountry to provide special courses of tec i ileal Instruction for women and gin ,j .rder that they may bo fitted to take. us f daceaof men callcd-to tho-wax front. ( ' r i j |