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Show Capable Womeim Jottings About the Doings of the Fair Sex PSjS M E ME LB A, the opera singer, is now acting as a war work speaker instead of a singer. Mrs. Ethel C. Blair has been elected a Justice of the peace In Shasta, Cal. Girl workers In the shops of many of the Western railroads havo proved so successful success-ful that it Js tho intention of tho various companies to hlro more. Alice Xellson. tho noted prima donna, in studying the mysteries of hog breeding at her summer home on the shores of Long Lake. All the Jewish women In this country aro to be organized for oversoas work. Miss Mary Anderson, Ander-son, a member of the fxvn , -wsv International Bool : aRafeSMHI1 -and Shoe Workers MSl : Union. Is assistant WSfm chief of the new 'SyRaSS woman's bureau of 3tmr j&&mm hf Department of ftjKiL i nu Women's Motor fcjij&vlS Corps of San Diego, fil Cal., including some iS-ff of the most proinl Bfry&&?JjJ&; ncnt society women Wjsffo$M"z In the Stale, have WfgrJ ?fYfl been mustered Into fjjf j 'Afjm ho military service my I (fw - This i3 the first mot-P, 1 or un.t In thu United A States to be made a MISS MARY part of tho State militia. "PA"' St Andrew's Church at Bradflcld. England, Eng-land, Is the only church In that country where tho bells arc rung by women Instead In-stead of men. Maude Adams, trib actress. Is working In the cafeteria of the Young Women's Christian Chris-tian Association in New York city. Miss Nellie M. Rceder. of Hays. Kan., has been appointed by the Ordnance Department De-partment to have general supervision over thV conditions of work for women at tho war plants In the district comprising the States of Connecticut. Now York. Massachusetts Massa-chusetts and Eastern Pennsylvania. Women gate tenders employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad work eleven hours a day, seven days a week. All trains arriving and departing from Harrlsburg. Pa., arc called out by women and girls. Women laundry workers in Kansas are prohibited from working moro than nine hours a day and tho law fixes a minimum wage of $3.50 a week for fifty-four hours of labor. Helen Keller will shortly mako her appearance ap-pearance in motion pictures. Women arc employed as scavengers in Shccrness, England. Women nro admitted to membership in 1 tho Scottish Institute of Accountants on M exactly tho name terms aa men. fj The Tcxn3 Federation of Labor la en- lr dcavoring to organize all tho female work-ers work-ers in tho Lone Star State. , ,In all tho munition factories In England whero women aro employed there Is a wolfaro supervisor, whoso duty It Is to maintain a healthy staff of workers and have them toll under satisfactory conditions. condi-tions. Twenty-nine per cent of the women munition, mu-nition, workers In Great Britain wcro for-merely for-merely housewives antl domestics. : Officers of tho International Ladles' ; Garment Workers' Union arc preparing to make effective tho declaration of their last convention for nncducatlonal campaign cam-paign to be conducted' by five appointed members to be selected by tho president of the union. Mrs. Stella B. Trvine Is a candldato for Congress from California. Kansas has a law which protects Its women workers both In wages and tho number of hours of employment. The proportion which women formed of ' tho total number of workers In English ; munition factories rose from fourteen per cent In January, 3016, to twenty-three per , cent in January, 191S. Moro than 400.CO0 women are now employed em-ployed In making munitions for tho English Eng-lish army Tho number of women in government positions in England exceed by far tho number of females employed by any other country in tho world. , MIbs Elizabeth Chrlstman, of Chi- ffl" . . ....fl cngo, has taken up : u - her duties in Wash- ,rjjga5KS. ' j lngton as chief of J111mSr staff of women ex- fiSlm amlncrs for the Na- mjig ' tlonal Wit Labor ygX Board. W Women workers on y S2j3 J the buses, trams and underground rail- ways in London have Kw. k been granted an in- '5?. ! I crease of $6.25 a week. ; i Twenty - five hun- 1 dred street car men j. in Cleveland threat- ( ix j en to strike if the TrA1,TH Cleveland Railway n5S ELIZABETH Company caries out CHT?ISTMAK plans to put women on the cars as conductors Women trade unionists in Great Britain f now number more than 300,(300. Waitresses in Oregon receive a minimum wago of $11. CI per week. Femalo garment workers In Ottumwa, Iowa, have been granted a ten per cent Increase In wages. ' All tho food consumed in Franco ia ! raised by women workers. I !i |