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Show 1 Capable Womeo Jottings About the Doings of the Fair Sex IflEJgassggpoKANE. Wash., Is the first lV&Tfl b'5 cl, ln the courUry 10 KCCW have women fire fighters. RKjEiSlJsS New Jersey won, en have lwe?!fiH -ust """Cnmd division of the Council of National Defence. De-fence. New York city is planning to organize a police reserve of 10,000 women The- work of keeping some of the biggest big-gest golf courses In the country ln condition con-dition 13 now being done by women. Since the passage of the Women Spy bill by Congrcsi many German women have been Interned. The latest woman to be appointed as captain cap-tain of a Red Cross canteen in France Is Miss May Brewer, of Callforn' Mrs. F. E. Guest, the American wife IILmmmmII a army HHH officer, has been ap- B pointed a member of U IHT y a committee to de- IIHbF t lermlne the taxes on iEll H feminine luxuries ln 9HH "flU England. HIR-BMH The Woman's Com- I mlttea of the Coun- cil of National Defence De-fence has adopted ) the same health L j "''TJ standards for worn- KfMr.P.E GurST fT en In Industry" as P those Issued by the Army Ordnance Department The women police of New York will be commandtl by a woman doputy commls ft tloner. The activities of women during war y formed the topic for a meeting of repre sentative women from all parts of the country In Washington recently America will only have clean politics when all the women vote, according to Rev. Henri F. Gondert. of Brooklyn. For the first time In the history of J Tammany Hall women will s-lt on the Ex ecutive Committee of that great political organization In New York Surgeon General Gorgas has announced his approval of the Raker bill in Congress which would give military ranking to all nurses. M!ss Evangeline Bishop, of Cleveland, asserts she Is the only woman In this country coun-try who has a war garden on land commandeered com-mandeered from a soldier In the German rmy. 4 Miss Margsret Sanderson, of Boston m has b.;en appointed head of the work among disabled soldiers returning from France by Surgeon General Gorgas. Philadelphia has at last been won over to the Idea of women taxleab chauffeurs, nd a large concern Is seeking enough women to qualify for positions. Virtually all the womn who made such V t wonaerful record by selling Liberty Bonds during the recent campaign are conducting the sale of war bavlngs stamps. Two women have been named Food Directors Di-rectors for two counties In California. They arc Mrs. W. H. Williamson, for Sacramento Sacra-mento county, and Mrs. Clarence Waller, for San Mateo county. The Indian women of the Cherokee. Osage and Delaware tribes In Oklahoma have organized Red Cross branches and are doing knitting for the hundreds of their men In the army. Women are wanted as finger print classifiers, classi-fiers, map colorlsts, proofreaders and for many other posts which pay large salaries by the government and the Emergency Fleet Corporation Sympathy will do more than anything else to help women In Industry who are injured, in-jured, accordlnc to Dr. E. O'Neill Kane, the famous surgeon in his pamphlet on women ln railway work. The third daughter of Major General Peyton C. March. Chief of Staff of the United States army, to marry an army officer within six months will be Miss Josephine Jo-sephine March, who will become the bride of Josoph M. Swing, her father's aid Determination to keep college athletics In the fore despite the depletion of the athletic ath-letic ranks by the war call has resulted In the formation of girls' baseball teams at Mills College and Stanford University. In California. If 6ix women, employed as experimental chemists at the Tamao.ua (Pa ) plant of the Atlas Towd-r I'ompany, can make good it w-(ll open an enormous field for women In ihls occupation The great work done by Miss Jane gj , J Olven, of New "i ork I for the Marine Corps 'HR ha." resulted in P3rf .Tinting offices in MM0nP9L; looking IrfSMBfc for women to help them get recruits T-455& T Tennis Is the ideal ' m Gport for women and jt girls, according to JHj the famous Sutton -Bf sisters, of Southern tJZ " , ' " u California, who are JMOwij& conceded to be the greatest women tennis plaers the game has ever known. The first women to enlist In the United States Coast Guard arc Lucille ind Genevieve Gene-vieve Baker, of Brooklyn, and tho Coast Ouard has asked the Navy Department for a special order permitting the enlistment of girls for clerical duties. The leadership of fifty women's organizations organ-izations In New York with a oomblned membership of 30.000 in launching an attack at-tack against German language newspapers has been followed by similar action on the i part of women's cluba throughout the entire en-tire country. |