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Show Ii Capable Wonmein . Jottings About the Doings of the Fair Sex HSU Irf3if S 1 M K X own and managt mm- rSwcVM mor(1 tMan n scorc of da"J Rt fift nDSSI newspapers in tho Unltcc lpSj Thi women of Iceland -ii53 recently celebrated the third -rear of their enfranchisement. HIj Ella Estrada, of Sacramento. Cal.. cut HI snd. ?old her hair to purchase a Liberty HI More than 4CO.CO0 women arc employed In the BriUfh government office. Hl Dr. Pane; Yuen Tsco Is the first Chlneoe Hl woman ambulance r - T1 driver for an Amcr- Hi P drcs f womcn cTn come1 ofthe 100.OW v-v worrfn railroad cm- HM s4 ploycs ia. to be left ' to tho individual fl ; ' . . railroads for action. ' sj - : , Portland. Ore.. Hj "A hotel has two Chl- fi ' 1 ncse girls In native i J costume anrwcrlm PR ? J TSCO calls and paprr; New York Stair has more than 3.0'J.uO'i , women, over twenty-one ycars-of age and eligible to vote. At the close, of the war more than e.otf.fO British women were doing ' different kinds of work previously fol lowed by men. , , , Linna Sreetle and Alice MePartand f-etorv inspectors In Kansas, plan to c-jm on a. rigid campaign against Indus-trial" Indus-trial" concern? In that State who prcalst in hl-'nr child labor- Chinese girls wearing: kimonos are being employed io take charge of the ten room. In Tiqnt- or the larper New York hotels Two State hv act of their legislatures i-knnf!o'.and Texas, have sranted wowl lh right to vote In tho primaries ML?3 Vlda Txirenson is police scrgcan.1 j of Forest vor. 111. Women now have a voice in the 213 electoral votes of the twenty-two State? In -vrhtolt tliov i vote. "Fourteen nut of the forty-clht States H' h? craDtcd full sutfrasr to women. A woman testifying bpforp the Unite.! Stales War Iihpr Eoard claimed that sht hsd been employed ;n a Virginia factory at images of UK cents an hour at the be- ? Innlns and later received per weck for the Mm? work lhat men doing similar I work received J15 a week for. In Utah thij cmplo'vinent of womso I more than nine hourS a day or more than i fifty-four hour. a week Is held to be legal where cmergtmdes arise. During the year -ndin June S". Civil Scrvire exam nations for government positions wrrc laken bv 137.620 women a$ compared with 2.1.57 th. prcvus yeai. This Is an Increase of per cent In thu number of women applicants. It l,i claimed that ninety per cent of all women who enter Industry marry and get out of industry within seven years ll-9damc Ro3ika Schwlmmer Is the first woman to be appointed an Ambassador liavlng recently been ent to Switzerland a h representative of Hungary The Scandinavian countries were the tlrst of Europe io sanction the full political politi-cal enfranchisement of women. A Washington. D. C. department store recently tried out oevcral women as floor wnlker.s and they proved so efficient that other stores are now following suit. u omen war workers in Washington and other centre arc being founr, ncw tlons R5 near their own homes as possible Thev are be.ng p,accd hy lhc Emp?oyii,,net The n,JChr o' Ma-iborouch. who wa I. w ' -il r'rrR'v lr o n o r h d PSn clccUo,n 1 tly ;utHEJ5 OT KARLSOWUCH rnl n Parish ait whlrh their inatc? ties were dining sooo afer their marrlaae NeurK M0CO women registered with the Bridgeport Conn . office- .of the Employment- Service recently as the result of 3 lively advertising, campaign to cnllat women for industrial employmont In Turkey husbands are deserting her wives and girls are being sold for a few shillings. The British Agricultural Wages Board has issued order? fWnsr maximum and minimum rates for women workers for the whole- of England and Wales. |