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Show Capable Women and Their Doings I jVMl i.ni of the 'wsS 1 Hospital, of yJSfeSi I f,1Hadeiphla lias gone to I ' R$At 1 "aly t0 Instruct volunteer Red Cross workers. Oregon has a law which prevents women from sorvlng as messengers. Tho American Bed Cross wants 30,000 women nurses for France Camps for women farm workers are to bo established tn varloua parla of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Miss Mcrgaret Wilson, Wil-son, daughter of ih' gLfc? Women are to b' -jifft JU. trained and educated aHBQN0Mfer In thi country to be juBr "TBjisfol come assistant pax .'SJBj (9tL iKl of Pi. BjPJ "JW an and Beformc BL.- rJk churches WKfm" jMbM Ohio has at leas' Pp twenty lEHHBt sfl ! women barbers, whll- BflH( wH In Pennsylvania th.-r fcp M aro nearly twice a 5 HiMMA&jKgti'wux'? many. 1 Girls now have nn equal vote with the men In the athletic affairs of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Frnnkford High School. The national woman's party has become a suffrage organization. the factories of France a half million women have taken the places of men. A woman lli.eman. who '.limbs poles to repair telephone wires the same as men. is employed In Washington. D. C. Of tho 90.000 registered nurses in thle country only 16.600 arc enrolled In the Red Cross That women make highly auccessful fanners is shown by tho fact that nearly 2,000,000 of them are In charge of farms In this country The government has appointed fifty-five women deputy sheriffs to look after the welfare of girls in the vicinity of the training train-ing camps and cantonments. Senators favorable to woman suffrage ire planning to make a fight to have It granted throughout the country on the I grounds that It Is a measure of war efficiency. ef-ficiency. Miss Esther Cleveland, daughter of the late President wa.s marrliwl l. tri ter Abbey to Captain W. B, u. Poaan-l Poaan-l quet. an officer of the famous Coldstream I Guards. Tho American Godmothers' I.engue haa been organized by Mrs William Leonard Davia to supply tho American troops In France with luxurlea, such as tobacco and newspapers. Officers to lead tho women's land army m raising crops this summer will be trained at the School of Horticulture for Women, at Ambler. Pa. Mlas Emma Le Clair, of Lowell. Maas haa organized a veritatlo Battalion of Death, known as Company A. First Worn an'a Regiment of Massachusetts. Steel helmets have been furnished to women drivers la Eondon to protect their heads from exploding Gorman bombs dropped from airplanes. A girl cannot live on leas than fll 70 s week In New York, according to figures furnished by the State Factory Investigating Investigat-ing Commission. When l. k of funds prevented the erection erec-tion of a new hospital at Palm Reach four! women started in and raised nearly J31.0M j In a few days ; Mlas Mary C O'Neill, on Atlantic City VI, claims the honor of being one of the youngest successful real estAtc operators In tho entire United States. If not in tho world. ! A department for the maintenance and housing of women workers In munition Plants haa bepn erected In tho War Department De-partment and la directed by Miss Mary van Kleeck. Mr. Hershel Tupes. wife of Colonel Tupes, commanding Fort Hamilton. Is a graduate Bed Cross nurse and l caring for Invalid private soldiers undor the com- ,n -, n a r u.v-. v. .... i . i I iimiiu I, im hu&uuiiu. The title of "Hero- i Ine of ha- poo i "m ' wage scales no' HB5 men's" act , ' -a throughout ths e,,un- MmOU try ore insisting that feminine workers should receive the same rates that were paid men Mrs. Ronald 11. Barlow and Mlas Elaine W Rosenthal, both golf champions, defeated William B Souther and Georuo W. Carroll, two prominent experts, over the Pinehurei championship courso recently. |