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Show 1 Capable Women and Their Doings -R Girls are being used as caddies by British golfers. jPK Women farmers In Missouri now num-iljBbcr num-iljBbcr more than 5,000 There arc 1.000,000 moro women than SjKlmcn In England to-day. IE The jQpancsc Rcd cross has ovcr 200,000 Wim ttomcn members. .. MM. Over S3.b women arc employed In tu-i mWL go nmt- .Itices. WK Practically all the aglrcultural work In tfm Italy is being done by women. 'km Over 200.000 women In England aro now IB engaged In .agricultural Pursult5' . nvn The United States Reserves now havo fm over SO) women enrolled as yponwn. Mies Kathcrvn Stln- j&Zgr son, tho Texas avl- I Z'--: "' atrlx. was r 'rl o152Si jf wor i o p' fu m9fjKr,J3m &lWi aeroplane over t" Si, fSR Tehachapl Mountains W'U KM on a non-slop flight XfeT VX.5 A11 thc "TCrnpreBses J. f&fm' of Rus8la throughout 4 mWt tllc "Inetoenth ct-u $,fx rfb4 tury. with tho exeep- MiSJlm'- fSm titm ot tu0 wlfo o fw Mm, Alexander III., wor (Wm. , ttlm Carman princesses tt jt mWr Thc servant ques- liW&. - & Mm Uon ln EnBland has (C V IE' becomc very acute MM KATHERJNE mm ,wns 10 " Won mtmt that over 'KM female domestics are turning their atien- tlon to munition work. Over fifty por cent of tho munition work-iSM work-iSM crs m Lyons. France, are women, HSM Women can he used In twenty-five uir-52SB'. uir-52SB'. fcrcnt lines of Industry In this country. &W Women aro becoming large factors in gjHK- tnc eredlt business of tho countiT. Tho Kansas City Railway Company will ubo women as conductors on Us cars. riho women ln Silesia. East Prussia dominate the building Industry there. Miss Coralio Sncll Is registered ns a forester for-ester In the Oregon Agricultural College. I Over 400 Ontario (Can.) school, teachers havo enlisted ln tho overseas service. Women compose one-third of tho employes em-ployes employed In the chemical Industry In Sweden. i,i Tho number of n.arrlcd women ln industry indus-try nan grruwj increase sln;o tho war began. Secretary of War Baker declares that thc war couldn't go on without tho aid of woraon. , , . -rr Mies Margaret Bates, of Tonkors. N. T ., has been a Bchool teacher for tho last fifty-two years. After January 1 women will bo cllgibh1 to servo on Juries In tho Superior Court of California Tho woman pifffrago amenflment to tho constitution will be volod upon ln the House on January 10. ... Women In Great Britain who have taken thc places formorly hold by men now number num-ber a million and a quarter- Tho Chicago Milk Drivers' Union Is seeding seed-ing women to reploco the men drivers who havo been called away to war. The Empress of Japan is one of the hardest workers In tho interest of tho RoJ Cross relief work in that country. , Mrs. J. W. Gale, rocantly cl .od as an Alderman in Calgary. Is tho first woman to hold such a position In Canada. Mrs Carrlo Chapman Catt, tho ardent suffragist, b being boomed foi a seat ln Cougross from tho Nineteenth DlBtrlct of 'women eantoen '.vorkorn In tho French army are making uho of tho German prisoners pris-oners by having rfhem make tin cuph from old tin cans. Miss Charlos Barnard, of Dover. England, Eng-land, under the namo of "Clarlbcl," wroto many songfj. most famous of which s "Come Back to Erin." Scvcnty-nlnc per cent of tho women employed em-ployed In. the large establishments of Germany Ger-many aro being made to work from eloven tc thirteen hours a day. Mrs. Whltelaw Rold, , widow of tho $M$ Ambassador to Ton- Wffi'lr. don, has been ap- fcj-V polntM a deputy commissioner of thc SjxsjjX American Red Croer, ftZf ffiSffl for C eat Brltn'n. . RYl London has an x&m . $5SRi army boot hospital In JttWt which 800 women arc employed -n putting Ijjs?' the old boots In shapo p ; , . ' so that they can be '' v'. worn by the officers -. . .vf ' and poldicra In the : .' - JlJ!- English army. 1 MW.MMTEIAW RtlO ' Two Mt Holyoko Collogo girls, recently hired as drivers of mllK routes m ; Hadley, Mnns.. have proved ao cfflcloiM lbt they will be rotalned In tholr Jobs. Tho French government has opened u school whero womon aro given professional profes-sional training with a view of placing thorn In positions vacated by- tho men who hnvp boon called to war. Miss Elizabeth Ij. Du Val, of Baltimore, who recently sailed on her first trio n Junior operator, has thc distinction of being be-ing the first woman wlroloss operator to assumo duty on thc seas. Coal mining :omnanIcH In tho Lehigh Valley district of Pennsylvania will cm-ploy cm-ploy -women In positions outside the shafts. Among the Joba vl.lch toy arc ellglb'o for aro those of breaker hands, head tenders, tend-ers, weighers and runnora. |