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Show Doings of Capable Women J j In Turkey thc fat woman is considered ; beautiful. 1 It Is assorted that women mako the best soldiers. American women spend more than one I million dollars annually seeking beauty. ( There arc three times as many widows as widowers ln the United' States. Thc Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Is now employing women os subway guards. Tho harvesting of the Canadian crops is ) being done mainly by womon and girls. The Chicago Grand Opera Company has ! a chorus composed entirely of American girls. Mary PJckford, thc motion picture star. . ho3 subscribed $00,000 for Liberty bonds Women trackhands have made their ap-i ! pcarance on Uio northorn division of the 1 Pennsylvania Railroad. Since thc war began the employment of ' women in tho British motaMndustrles has I Increased SI per cent . The gain in tho number of British women , workers since 10H has been 1,240.000, or 27.C I per cent i Of thc 200.000 women and girls employed ln the district of Birmingham, England, . more than 25.000 are organized. On aomc of the street railways In Great i Britain more than -half tho cars arc being operated by women. r n, -An wvi pIt-Im .ire engaged ln i cutUng moss in England, where, after 1 being dried, It ls used for fuel. 1 Mrs. William P. Snyder. of Pitta- :;. burg, obtained in one r . tSTdJk day subscriptions f. J&W amounting to more rXWg i than J3.000.0CO for Lib- fm$ 3'A erty bonds. Munitions makers - &i In this country assert v &JS. fM thoy can operate . JW'-JfA their plants success- - W HBEMfa&i&i ' fully with 70 per cent ... - SHf ! of women as -'m- , ' 7W ! ployes. 'Xf,'&f ; In tho French fac- ! tor!e3 it Is assorted I vgcs.3 i that tho output of t.lRS.V.P.SUYDErt females on small work equals, and ln some Instances excels, that of mon. A talented woman artist Is employed by tho Department of Agriculture to reproduce repro-duce various plants In Ihelr natural and exact forms. In tho shell factories of England night work by Womon Is common, but In general In I engineering women as a rule work only on nl tho day shift, 9 9 Mrs. Eunico Clark, mother of two chll- jfljj dren. attends school every day in thc pub- jfl Jj lie school In Cleveland. Ohio, s0 as to HI famlllarizo herself with tho methods used ' ! U ln teaching her children. j Ml Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of tho PresI- dent, has sent hor personal check to tho I I District of Columbia's Woman's NaUonal B Liberty Loan Commlttoo as a subscription J , BE for bonds of the second Liberty Loan. i 'j ut Mmc. Frances Alda, , $ fc5Sj5 the opera singer, , M BijPP wi ,,as a lowcr Qnd Ml tl vegetable garden on ran jlgfcgKp hor estate, which she DI PVBiS personally attends to M pP'p Women over elgh- II Rl' 'j&Ej t?en ycars of aS em- t Mm WMms H$W Ployed In thc largo 1 1 Mli&W&&s' Wm snc11 factories In M9 y England In unskilled iflM W ' am seml-ykllled ca- ' ; parities receive ?I.S7 j wm MME FRANCES AtOA iL ' W (ho.kih a young Indian worn- ; ! lllS an, ls field secretary j am of the Young Women's ChrlsUan Assocl- : ! If itlon for thc Southwestern district of the ' fill United States. j i Mrs. E. T. David, of Douglas. Wyo., has ' rJRi been elected president of tho board of J ( am trustees of the University of Wyoming. : H Sho Is the first woman to hold such office. j Oil Thc Plome Economics Department of tho ' III University of Kansas has boon converted . am into a scientific army kitchen, whero the ' JjJ girl students are being taught to become ' , Mi army cooks. i jflrt A year ago. before thc United States I III I Joined Canada In tho fight across thc ! jul ocean, there woro only 200,000 members of 1m tho Red Cross in this country, hut to-day , jjjffl tho momborshlp numbers ovor 4O0.O9O. Via, Tho Cuban Red Cross Society, of which f Ujl Mmo. Mcnocnl, wife of tho President of Hj Cuba, is chairman, has hogun tho work of ! jujf equipping a 100-bed hospital unit manned UIII by a staff of Cuban physicians and nurses ' JHil for service In Prance. ! Mi Tho experiment of employing womon in i ,l Industrial positions by tho Baltimore and Hj Ohio Railroad Company has proved so ,'HJII successful that many more will bo em- ! jjJll ployed in other poslUons which formorly j jjlffl I were held only by mon. j |