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Show Capable Women Jottings About the Doings of the Fair Sex BOSTON now has women football referees ref-erees and coaches Schcol teachers In New York city have received an increase in salary. Food, drug ard tobacco plants throughout through-out the country employ 125.000 women workers. Women employed In the linen trade In Belfast. Ireland, have gone on strike for Increased wages. Women clerks in Winnipeg and Boniface. Boni-face. Canada, receive a minimum wage of SI2 per week. ta rortv V Pen nybacker. of Texas hjw- one-time president E$w?$5t5&v of the General Fed rfgfk. eratlon of Women s V'siiS Clubs Is touring th - f SBi United States in the Interest of the great W. United States War V, . , w -fjT Work Service " 2Mf Miss Mary Luf- 'Sf " berry, sister of Ma- i&sL-. for Lufberry, the fa- . xjra Tons American fer ? ' t, ;t "Ace" who was shot )' , J. 1own bv Hun flyers f Y ki-A I? goincr to France. MRLx p .. ' where she hopes to ppMuwRrvt. secure a position -r. pEA, the sqrvico so as m avenge the death of her brother Scores of Irls employed on piecework in the plant of the American Standard Metallic Product Corporation at Pauli-boro. Pauli-boro. N. .1 . mm from JS to SO a day. A Sheffield. England, hairdresser who volunteered for munition work in one week of 53 hours earned more than JS5. Women arc taklnc an Increasing part In Japanese public affairs, and some have been appointed to posts of trust. Men and women of the "arm Servants' Union of Scotland refused to work with men brought from Irclaim -e oltsr'- ' blc for war service. A woman doctor. Ml-cs Fufu Kvo - been named by the Tokio. f.lapan) Tollcc Department to investigate the causes of Infant diseases and to arrange a scheme of nssistapco for poor women. Cigarette smoking has become so prevalent prev-alent anions women nnd girls in England that it is proposed to enact legislation o put a stop to the habit. Miss Mabel Gillespie, of Boston, has been elected vice president of the Massn-Ichusctts Massn-Ichusctts tafc Federation of Labor. Ten Slates row have women members Ion the executive councils of their i?ta-e I labor. bodies. The Women's Trade Union League of Philadelphia Is urging all women workers to Insist upon equal wages for equal work I with men. Owing to the scarcity of agricultural labor this autumn. It is reported that In the fields near Fargo. S. D.. women composed com-posed nearly seventy per cent of tho workers work-ers who shocked grain. Twenty-five women representing na- 1 tlonal and international labor organizations organiza-tions met -eccntlv In Washington. D. C. for the purpose or establishing close relations rela-tions between the trovernment and organized organ-ized women workers. Secretary of Labor Wilson is It favor ol equ,al pay for women workers who ta! the places of men and do the same work with the same amount of efficiency. Thousands of women have invaded tho realms of man in the machlno shop and various other lines' of employment which heretofore have been operated exclusively by men Miss Lilly . McCuHouf. of Wlnnipc?. Canada, has been awarded a research fellowship fel-lowship to tho value of J500. with additional addi-tional allowance for travelling expenses, by the Canadian Industrial Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Association. Mrs. Julia M. Decker, widow of John H. Decker, a contractor, of Atlantic City. N. J., may carry out a 55.000.000 contract with the government for the construction of additional shipways in the Delaware River industrial-district to enable the Shipping Board to expedite ls programme. The government has acrecd to permit Mrs. Decker to carry out the contract held by her late husband, provided she can procure pro-cure the requisite capital. Miss Ellsa R Hyde, for fifty-four years in employe of the Treasury Departmenf in Washington, has resigned because sh wants a little more leisure during the remaining re-maining years of her life she Is now past eighty-seven years of age. During her lone years of service Miss Hyde never once ha been tnrdv. nor has she over used a day 0' sick leave. In Oroanii more than two thousand youne (business women have pledged themselves io wear sweaters all winter In their offfcet ip order that as little co.il a poslbi" rv be ascd In the office liui'Minse mOmfWi beautiful among the ffiffi-v royal women of Eu . BWSSl roPc. but also onc o! if vWemi 1 t,w most a,ontcd fSUJIr ?1io excels as a niu- mMm'- !ic,rin nnd 33 a ,,n" TfM- tni,sL Pain-5 credlt' ,bly and ca.v',', nr.d BWyt&W-'- y lecorates the fram 5f h,?r Paintings There L no lack ot ft' womanhood la f$l0 X O America from which tt-Vf n ,VU (0 frnu. mlini,nn Queen f-Wiie: worker.-, but there li op Rdumamia a lnck of xvilllns-ncss xvilllns-ncss on the part 01 American women to go Into the factories and work with their hands, savs Miss La Dame of the United States Employment Bureau In this city. Befdre the war girl workers In France were paid about forty cents a day. Now' they aro earning on an avera'ge more than ?2 a day. |
