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Show E, !o gs ' Sh 1 Capable Women and ; What They Are Doing j i - it . C fci-ctviSQ si.I.lSH v.-1 1 nnrsos ire all JPjS utenanta or captains m rnl Oorman peasant women HRaYBH n nai'' doing I'Lwafi ' '"' ' "" VWirk aS nf,r 1 " Efforts, mo being made to jiavo the American Red Cross nurses com-aisaioned com-aisaioned aa officers, surc'in General Gorges ha appealed tj ; American women to begin training as r 1 Over six hundred woman have applied or the nurses' training camp at Vassar Celleflo this summer. Women Inspectors and watchers guard-rd guard-rd the polls at tho recent election in IVCA.-kill N V Mi.-s Frances Jor- I ! dan. the Southern beauty, has been selected se-lected out of twenty- i: l v. ,-,?nr n by the War Depart- J merit for a poster to b u.scd In Its publicity publici-ty campaigns. Only women who had relatives rela-tives In the military jervlce were eligible. Secretary of tho Navy Dan tela has an-nounced an-nounced t ii a t the women knitters of It'll ihiv fniintrv nn rlo- ins a real service to their country not only by helping to provide pro-vide for the men at sea. but by keeping up I their spirits with gifts. J In eight cities classes In banking have been provided for women who have been employed as bank clerks. Politicians now assert the women of ! Now ..rk divided their vote the same as f the men In tho recent election. I m The American Red Cross is supplying I bandages made by American women to three thousand hospitals in France. At tho request of the Massachusetts I public safety committee Boston telephone operator, called off an intended strike. Mr.s William M. Hertschcll. of lndlan-I lndlan-I spoils, will direct publicity for tho . Women's I-lbcrty Loan Committee of In-1 In-1 dlana A complete survey on the substitution r of women for man power in Industry is to be made in Cleveland Women are eligible for the new medal? and decorations ordered by the War Department De-partment to be conferred on American I soldiers. The first American girl accepted for telephone service with the troops in ! France Is Miss Ethel Elkins, of Phila-I Phila-I delphla. Employment offices to provide posi- I tlons tr women have been opened In thlr-I thlr-I teen cities by the United States Employ-I Employ-I ment Service. America's leading motion picture ac- tresses arc to make a tour of speeches throughout the country in the Interest of tho next Liberty Loan. Catherine Breshkovsky. called the Grandmother of the Russian Revolution." Revolu-tion." deserted her husband and child to lead the fight for freedom Delaware women have launched a campaign cam-paign of their own to put tin i St.ite in front in the sale of Thrift and War Bavins; Bav-ins; Stamps. The National Aeronautic Committee of th Woman's Naval Service Is raising a SjO.OTO fund to buy athletic equipment for American flyers abroad A women's unit of twenty telephone operators Is being organized by the Keystone Key-stone Telephone Company and will go to France Thousands of women school teachers In every State are being called to help speed up the work of classifying all men who registered for tho draft As a result of the first vote ever cast by women in Vermont eight lowns i-. mi dry. Including Burlington and St, Albans, Al-bans, two of the largest citlc To make fa No faces for French soldiers who have been so horribly mutilated that they cannot ippear in public unmasked, Mrs Maynard I-add, the American sculptress sculp-tress has opened a studio in Paris. Mrs. Dorothy McDonnell Rolph. of Denver, Den-ver, has accepted the position as director of the compensation bureau of war risk Insurance in the War Department Mrs Elizabeth r rt r nilWDlBWUi i the Xcw York sol Olst P has given up singing I at for each concert con-cert to enter a munitions muni-tions factory at $11 a week At practically evcrv army post in the Bast Wives of commanding 9 f f I c e r s have assumed as-sumed charire of providing pro-viding hospital sup- ' h" .' i luUEFD-HWmiONC1 sent abroad ' Tv Advice to the women wo-men of this country not to talk peace or expect the war to be over soon, but to buckle up and get to work to help Win, It ' given by Mrs. August Belmont, of New , York, who has Just returned from England Eng-land and France. t Mrs. Thomas R, Marshall, wife of the Vice President, has borrowed an under-grown under-grown baby from a Washington diet kitchen and developed him Into a stro.ig. healthy child. Of tho eight thousand workers making I time fuses for American sheiks at thl International In-ternational Arms and Fuse Company, Bloomfield. X J . five thousand are ' women, and one thousand more are badly needed. i |