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Show Jottings About the Doings of the Fair Sex I JAPANESE cottoa factories employ over 125,000 women. Women workers ore notoriously difficult dif-ficult to organize. Edinburgh. Scotland, will experiment with women scavengers. In order that their soldier boys may have a plentiful supply of cigarettes, thousands thou-sands of women in Franco havo gtvon up smoking. Over 75.000 women arc now employed in tho British Civil Service. Ovor 120.000 women in England and Wales are working In agrlculturo. Nearly all tho printing shops in London now employ women compositors. Mrs. George Dewey, widow of Admiral I" , yMig.- Dowoy, has been &f$jfifjg mado honorary SjWBMk chairman of tho 'Jfm Comforta Commllteo wg I of tho Navy League W W$$ of tho United Stales. J? mr&?& According to fig- W 'W"JW ' ures now In the pos- ;ri session of the Coun- .km jSs , cil of National Do- fat ' fence, thoro are In 9 rZtgfckqg the United States rftS$$&& more-than 80,000 reg- (ilfWm ho'ptTo-g r a d WiyW , Women's Legion of Doath aro In revolt against their commander, com-mander, Mmc. Butchkorcva, becauso she Is too rough In enforcing discipline. Thoro is no restriction on the work which women may do in Great Britain. Tho employment of womon on the Scottish Scot-tish railways has doubled slnco tho war began. Woman aro admitted to tho Railway Men's Union in Great Britain. The Seaboard Air Uno Railroad is filling the places of its striking freight clorks with womon. women cmpioyca in restaurants in Now York arc not allowed by law to work moro thnn fifty-four hours a week. The sanitary pollcewomon in Cleveland aro being encouraged to wear pants instead in-stead of skirts. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wlfo of President Wilson, is at the head of a movemont for conservation in dress. The actual earnings of women workers In Great Britain aro considerably above HS7 minimum. Washerwomen In Chicago have organized organ-ized a union with a scalo of 2.C0 a day for doing tho usual Monday wash. Women employed on ploce work in tho British munition factories receive tho samo rate of pay as the men for tho same work. It is estimated that 20,000 women havo been employed in tho Wall street district of Now York slnco tho boglnnlng of th ; war. Miss Jennnettc Rnnkln, Congrc'swoman from Montana, is endeavoring to aecura the appointment of Miss Cecelia Martin ; as a pago in the House. A majority of tho factorlos In Franc; ; whero women arc cmp:oyed arrange for the washing of caps and overalls worn by !, tho women. i Mmo. Hlrooka is known as tho "Iron Woman of Japan," because of her succu . In tho many business ventures which b' ; has undertaken. Mrs. Jul lotto King is tho founder of the ; Girl Scouts, an organization patterned i very much after tho Boy Scouts organlta- tlon. Canadian women have formed a "Bat-, 1 tallon of Death," similar to 0110 already f formed by several Russian women, who i desire to go to tho front line tronchc 1 Viscountess Gort, of England, b ( opened a millinery establishment In Loa- . don and all the profits from the enter-, prise will bo turned over to the Red Cress. Dcsplto her spventy years of age, Mrs-Samuel Mrs-Samuel Coffin,' mother of Howard E. Coffin, of tho National Defence Coandl, . . rocontly took nn aeroplane trip with aa : ; Italian aviator. ; A bill has been Introduced In 'ho Puerto , Rlcan Senate which provides that women : -J will bo given tho right to hold office tu J well as tho right to vote, which they aov j ! havo. , i In Dutch Guiana tho women carry upon . , their persons all tho family savinca In the shape of heavy bracelets, nnklel. : U necklaces and ovon crowns of gold and . silver. 1 j The State Department will issue no ; passports to women who desire to go w y Franco or England unless they show preo w that thoy arc to bo regularly employed in war work. Mary Garden, tho sM opera singer, is back k&Fttf&&&tHf$ H in this country again Bfl biiu mis iwa war JSfr ytfe-i Jm decorations, ono the Wave ' 'M Reel Cross, of Serbia. SZJtWl '1 and tho other tho agEf fM jl Wreath of Public 4 jl Devotion, presented SiSS, pr-1l by the French gov- - -J?t a jfl ernmont f-o r her fiHyW tm uork in allied hos- jffagfeJ M Miss Martha S- I l Trimble, an ordained jl A ,lW minister, has ac- .. A--,t'vr cepted tho pastorate K' II of the Christian , fW Church at Merriam. Kan. Sho was graa- uated from the Mlsaourl I'nlversify U" Jfl. spring and went to Mrrlam rccentL ana preached to Jhc congregation, which - came so attached to her that sho was mi given tho call. mm |