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Show Capable Women and Their Daily Doings HREE Jails for tho exclusive j use of women and to bc run entirely b7 women aro to be established In Chicago. Bjivgyj Evon tho patrol wagons eSl wli; DC Op0ratcd by women. The Increase In tho number of women who havo replaced men .In England's Industries In-dustries now numbers nearly a million and a half. New York' policewomen now wear uniforms uni-forms nnd carry 'billies." revolvers and handcuffs. The opportunities for women to serve their country are more numerous now than ever before. Elsie Janls. the musical comedy star. iG4mA&' '"tHM Is tho Idol of troops MbP" abroad. Sho sings Wp feiV for them and thcy r s&, havo named 'a can- f M$ non for her- JmBrn- V' Hrc A woman owns and gfSSSre iBv manages tho largest fe$2HB Ipt. billiard parlor in Al- , Women tiro male-crs male-crs In this country hfj V vS are doing the work M't S &f. equally as well as fjife . the men formerly U y&-;, p employed In this line ELSIE janis, of work. More than 1M.00O women In Italy are doing the hardest kind ot work In occupations occu-pations former) held exclusively by men Maryland farmers aro paying women workers on their farms $15 per month and their board. Women employes In government plants are to havo their health and welfare carefully care-fully supervised. Over 15,0(0 women can bc used as hospital assistants or student nurses In the United States. The woman's committee of the Council of National Dcfenco has passed a resolution resolu-tion that all women of tho United States express their loyalty and respect to the colors and the national anthem by standing stand-ing at attention when tho flag la passing or tho National anthem Is rendered. On an averago tho ultlmato limit of a woman's capacity appears to bc about 75 to 0 per cent of a man's capacity as a worker Young girls In England arc taking strenuous stren-uous exercises under the supervision of experts fo as to prepare them for hard and heavy work m the government plants later on Fcmalo millinery workers In Massachusetts Massachu-setts have minimum wage rate. The labor party of the "black country," England, havo nominated Miss Elizabeth MacArthur as their candidate for a scat In tho Brltlah aPrllamcnt. Since the beginning of tho war the British Ministry of Munitions has paid over J&0.000 toward tho upkeep of day nurseries and institutions. Women are widely employed in France for the Inspection of finished goods. Women employed in the automobile tire factories In tho United States aro paid tho samo wages as men for tho tame work. Encllsh and American women turned out COO completo baseball uniforms for ball playcrf In css lhan thrco days. The Mothers' and Wives' Loalty League of America Is noW.3 permanent organization of mothers and wives of men now In tho service. Mrs. Linda Scott, Arizona's first woman deputy sheriff, and captor of "Two-Gun rote." a bandit, has becn elected president presi-dent of the llassayampa Society, an organization or-ganization composed of prominent people from all over the State of Arizona. Tho National Alliance of Employers and Employed, an English labor organization, 1 's going to placo before a conference of women's societies a proposal that women, whllo prepared to give up their present work to returning soldiers, shall not go back to their old jobs on sweatshop "ages that existed before the war. In normal times about 4S7.0O0 women are employed throughout France; now thore arc over females engaged In the various occupations. Mrs. Mary Radford Warren, the novelist, novel-ist, now a nurse In France, was tho only woman In the advanced field hospital when the American and French troops entered en-tered Chateau-Thierry recently. When thcy were not granted tho same amount of bonus given the men, the women street car conductors In London went on a strike. The New York State Department of Labor is appealing to "women of lclsuro" In that State to volunteer for farm work. Tho total peach crop of Talbot county. Md., was saved through the efforts of the women folk. In order to stimulate recruiting the wages of nurses en- per month for over- fllpttJiPlKM sea's duty and to Wi HBpk 3$irP a month for duty at &Wjf Madame. Juliette jfBSTt: Adam, considered the foremost woman KS'mgj Journalist In Franco B$flER Is still active with WW&s&sSfm hrr iPu? nri th gC MADAME JULIETTE ADAM of eighty-three Nearly all tho peaches In California a.re being picked by women and girls, who wear overalls. |